More concerts cancelled over transgender law
US rock bands Pearl Jam and Boston have cancelled shows in North Carolina over a new state law they call discriminatory against transgender people, the groups said on Monday. The cancellations...
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US rock bands Pearl Jam and Boston have cancelled shows in North Carolina over a new state law they call discriminatory against transgender people, the groups said on Monday. The cancellations...
View ArticleNCAA relocates 7 events pulled from NC due to LGBT law
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NCAA relocated its men's basketball regional tournament to Greenville, South Carolina, on Friday after withdrawing the event from Greensboro, North Carolina, because of that...
View ArticleMore Than 50 Arrested in North Carolina During Protests of Anti-LGBT Law
Dozens of people were arrested outside the North Carolina statehouse in Raleigh during a protest against the state’s anti-LGBT law House Bill 2 (HB2). Thousands of opponents of HB2—referred to by many...
View ArticleThe big political battle over transgender people in bathrooms, explained
Bathrooms have become a major political battleground in America. Just consider what happened on Wednesday, May 4, alone. The Department of Justice told North Carolina that its anti-LGBTQ law was in...
View ArticleAnti-transgender bathroom hysteria, explained
Bathrooms have become a major political battleground in America. On Monday, May 9, North Carolina officials sued the Obama administration to defend the state's anti-transgender bathroom law, meaning...
View ArticleN.C. GOP’s failure to repeal discriminatory bathroom law is our call to action
North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature, which earlier this year passed a bill curbing legal protections for LGBT people, met in a special session last week to repeal the law — and then...
View ArticleStarr boycotts North Carolina over 'anti-LGBT' law
Ringo Starr has joined a growing list of artists and businesses boycotting North Carolina to protest its change to transgender laws. The former Beatle had been due to play at the Koka Booth...
View ArticleWhy did North Carolina’s deal to repeal HB2 come undone?
A deal to scrap House Bill 2 (HB2), the “bathroom bill” that’s caused tremendous tension in the Tar Heel State, fell apart Wednesday night in a raucous special session where state legislators hurled...
View ArticleThe imaginary predator in America's transgender bathroom war | Video
You have to pee. If you're like 99% of America, you look at pictograms, predictable gender binaries, to guide you toward the appropriate toilet. A person in pants on the left. A person in a dress on...
View ArticleACC latest blow for North Carolina governor's re-election
Gov. Pat McCrory frames the debate over North Carolina's law about transgender people and restrooms as one of common sense and safety and privacy. Yet try as he might, he can't shake the narrative from...
View ArticleTexas’ anti-transgender bathroom bill, explained
Texas’ lieutenant governor is leading the charge for a new bathroom bill — by touting a big myth. Last year, North Carolina Republicans passed a sweeping anti-LGBTQ law that, among other measures,...
View ArticleThese Musicians Are Speaking Out Against North Carolina’s ‘Anti-LGBT’ Law
On March 23, lawmakers in North Carolina voted in favor of a bill that will prevent transgender people from choosing which bathrooms to use and ban cities in the state from passing legislation designed...
View ArticleHundreds of Thousands Call for Repeal of North Carolina Anti-LGBT Law As...
(Source: Human Rights Campaign) RALEIGH, NC- Nearly 190,000 signatures demanding the repeal of North Carolina's anti-LGBT House Bill 2 were delivered to the office of Gov. Pat McCrory today by a...
View ArticleNCAA pulls 7 postseason events out of North Carolina due to LGBT law
Basketball-crazed North Carolina has lost its next chance to host NCAA men’s basketball tournament games along with several other championship events due to a state law that some say can lead to...
View ArticleNCAA cancels North Carolina championship events over LGBT law
Basketball-crazed North Carolina has lost its next chance to host NCAA men’s basketball tournament games along with several other championship events due to a state law that some say can lead to...
View ArticleNorth Carolina reels from business backlash to anti-LGBT law
Raleigh’s convention center has lost $2.4m of bookings and big names in music are staying away from the state despite the governor’s attempt to backpedal...
View ArticleNCAA pulls 7 postseason events out of NC due to LGBT law
Basketball-crazed North Carolina has lost its next chance to host NCAA men’s basketball tournament games along with several other championship events due to a state law that some say can lead to...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Music Lovers Tell Us Why They're Happy Artists Are Boycotting...
“'Keep the men out of the ladies’ rooms!'” That’s 33-year-old North Carolinian Aaron Fitt impersonating the pearl-clutching right-wingers of his state. Their support of the month-old “bathroom bill”...
View ArticleNCAA pulls men's basketball tournament games out of NC over LGBT 'bathroom law'
NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA has pulled seven championship events from North Carolina, including opening-weekend men's basketball tournament games, for the coming year due to a state law that some say...
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