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- Immigration Services has instituted a new policy that will ensure transgender people can obtain the proper gender designation on their immigration documents.
- The CEO of Duke Energy, a Fortune 500 company, has come out against North Carolina’s discriminatory Amendment One.
- A new study shows that a majority of Latinos support LGBT rights, including employment protections (83 percent) and marriage equality (54 percent).
- Why are charter schools exempt from the state of New York’s anti-bullying law?
- The Montana Supreme Court will hear an appeal from same-sex couples demanding same-sex marriage.
- An important victory in Alaska last month: a transgender woman won her case that she should be able to change the gender on her driver’s license without providing proof of surgery.
- Tampa’s domestic partner registry has been signed into law.
- The Los Angeles Police Department has announced it will implement new guidelines to better respect transgender individuals.
- The tiny southern Utah town of Springdale has implemented non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
- A public inquiry by an Australian Senate committee has found that a 59 majority supports marriage equality.
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reportedly banned gay kids and tomboys from its schools.
- The a cappella groups at Ithaca College — Ithacappella, Premium Blend, and IC Voicestream — have joined forces with The Sing-Off winners Pentatonix to record Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” the proceeds of which will benefit LGBT youth through the Born This Way Foundation. Buy it on iTunes here.
- This weekend, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry hosted a conversation about the Obama administration’s mixed support of LGBT issues, which included Mara Keisling of the National Center for Transgender Equality:
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