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Southern LGBTs Get Good, Bad Newsnew

Despite new information about social and economic disparities facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the South, Mississippi continues to make slow, steady progress toward equality.
Jackson Free Press  |  R.L. Nave  |  12-19-2014  |  LGBT

LGBT Pols Ready to Play in Statenew

With black folks playing the spoiler in the Mississippi Republican Senate primary, bucking many traditional notions about how politics work in the Magnolia State, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are making a political play of their own.
Jackson Free Press  |  R.L. Nave  |  08-01-2014  |  LGBT

Casinos, LGBTs Still Allied in Face of SB 2681new

MGM Resorts, which owns the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, will remain committed to workplace equality despite a Mississippi law that many say is discriminatory.
Jackson Free Press  |  R.L. Nave  |  05-22-2014  |  LGBT

Gay Marriage Rulings Raise Questionsnew

Some LGBTQ activists believe the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on marriage equality opens the door to making gay people a “protected class” under federal law.
Jackson Free Press  |  R.L. Nave  |  07-16-2013  |  LGBT

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