LGBTQIA Rights Roundup

By Thomas Maxheimer

Mississippi’s controversial anti-LGBTI law to go into effect after appeals court ruling

This law is considered by advocacy groups as one of the worst current “religious freedom” laws, gives license to anyone, including organizations and businesses, to discriminate against any queer person based on only “sincerely held” religious or moral beliefs.

Texas Supreme Court Rules That It’s Unclear Married Gay Couples Have Right to Government Spousal Benefits

In a unanimous ruling, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that lesbian and gay married couples have no right to government-provided spousal benefits.

Your Sexuality Could Affect Your Rent, Study Finds

The Urban Institute, a policy research organization based in Washington, D.C., found in a preliminary study that gay men and trans people face housing discrimination in metropolitan areas in the U.S.

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