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- The National Organization for Marriage has announced it will hold a march against marriage equality in Washington, DC on March 26 when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the Proposition 8 and Defense of Marriage Act cases.
- The Wyoming House Corporations Committee will hear testimony on a pair of marriage equality and domestic partnership bills today.
- Politifact has rated the National Organization for Marriage’s Rhode Island anti-equality propaganda as “Pants On Fire.”
- Rhode Island Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed (D) still opposes the marriage equality bill and is not rushing it through her chamber.
- On Friday, the Virginia Senate passed a bill protecting LGBT people from employment discrimination, but its odds of passing the House are “very slim.”
- Georgia universities that discriminate against LGBT students are benefiting from state tax credits.
- Oregon will become the first state to cover transgender youth healthcare costs under Medicaid.
- Hillsborough County, Florida, has rejected a proposed domestic partner registry.
- The University of Michigan will begin offering gender-neutral housing options next fall.
- Kathleen Wynne has been elected Canada’s first out LGBT premier of a political party.
- The New York Times looks at how American evangelical Christians are funding homophobia in Uganda.
- Poland’s parliament has rejected a bill to legally recognize same-sex unions.
- IKEA has apologized for transphobic commercials that aired in Thailand.
- Australian rules football player Brock McLean is speaking out as an LGBT ally thanks to his sister’s coming out.
- Watch the glorious moment last week when the Rhode Island House of Representatives approved the marriage equality bill:
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