Tag Archives: David Stacy

December 20, 2017   No comments

Word ban, comment blackout seen as ‘disturbing pattern’

HRC and others see a 'disturbing' anti-LGBT trend in the recent news that CDC was purportedly instructed not to use the word "transgender" in its budget documents and that HHS is withholding thousands of comments regarding its plan to reduce

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April 27, 2017   No comments

Trump, so far: a ‘mixed bag’ of ‘no surprises’

President Trump has managed to worry both his right-wing religious supporters and the LGBT community in his first 100 days, as he gives with one hand and takes away with the other.

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June 1, 2016   No comments

House Republicans show ‘thirst to discriminate’ against LGBT community

House Republicans defeated an Energy and Water bill they support in order to stop a pro-LGBT amendment from final passage last week. Insiders say many Republicans seemed determined to undermine protections put in place for LGBT people under the Obama

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December 10, 2013   No comments

Some worry over amendments in new Defense funding bill

Leaders of the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services committees announced Monday that they have reached an agreement on the defense authorization bill for the coming year, including some provisions LGBT activists have opposed.

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April 26, 2012   No comments

Senate defeats effort to drop LGBT protections from domestic abuse bill

A casual listener to U.S. Senate debate Thursday (April 26) would not have heard the skirmish over protections for LGBT victims of domestic abuse.

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February 15, 2011   1 Comment

FY 2012 budget: ‘Could have been worse’…and might be still

There was relatively little for the LGBT and HIV communities to complain about in the proposed Fiscal Year 2012 budget released by President Obama Monday. And given the president’s proposed five-year freeze in non-essential domestic spending, there were some sighs

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January 28, 2010   No comments

The state of the new landscape in the Senate doesn’t kill chances

Scott Brown's special election victory this month, taking the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, could have the power to derail passage of pro-gay civil rights legislation this year.

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