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JayCee Cooper, a transgender woman, filed charges with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights in 2019 after she was denied entry into USAPL women’s competitions.
Idaho senator Larry Craig said he was entrapped in a sex sting at an airport men's room and was not aware of the bathroom's reputation as a spot to cruise for gay sex. ''Well, I certainly am now,'' Craig told NBC's Matt Lauer in an interview that aired Tuesday night. ''Were you prior?'' Lauer asked. ''Not at all,'' Craig responded. ''I go to bathrooms to use bathrooms.''
The ban isn't dead yet, but it remains on hold.
In an effort to help Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy. Craig, a U.S. senator from Idaho, is asking the Minnesota court of appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct stemming from a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport. The ACLU filed a brief Tuesday supporting Craig. It cited a Minnesota supreme court ruling 38 years ago that found that people who have sex in closed stalls in public restrooms ''have a reasonable expectation of privacy.''
Eight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho lawmaker at various times during his political career, a newspaper reported Sunday. One of the men is the former escort whose allegations disgraced the Rev. Ted Haggard, former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, the Idaho Statesman reported.
Klobuchar is getting criticized particularly for a vote to confirm David Ryan Stras, who has objected to the Supreme Court ruling striking down antisodomy laws.
Some of Donald Trump's hypothetical Supreme Court nominees have pro-discrimination records.
A former classmate says Republican candidate Doug Wardlow, who is anti-LGBTQ, hurled the 'f' word at him and told him he should die.
He's disqualified because he took part in an insurrection, says the ruling, which Trump is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee says Idaho senator Larry Craig acted improperly in connection with a men's room sex sting last year and had brought discredit on the Senate. In a letter to the Republican senator, the ethics panel said Craig's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea after his arrest at an airport in Minnesota was an effort to evade legal consequences of his actions. Craig's actions constitute ''improper conduct which has reflected discreditably on the Senate,'' the letter said.
A federal judge made the ruling in a case brought by a wedding video company seeking the right to refuse service to same-sex couples.
Target joined an amicus brief this week supporting marriage equality in two federal lawsuits.
The court let stand a ruling that the names of Proposition 8's financial backers must remain public record.
