With a vote of 4-2 tonight, Midway, population 1,657, became the eighth Kentucky city to adopt a Fairness Ordinance, prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Led by first-term Mayor Grayson Vandergrift, four council members cast votes in favor of LGBT Fairness with two council members casting […]
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Photos: NKY Pride Festival in Mainstrasse Village
The annual NKY Pride festival returned to Mainstrasse Village on Saturday. The event featured booths, entertainment, a bike ride, a yoga session, a drag show, music, and remarks from Mayor Sherry Carran and Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce president Trey Grayson, the former Secretary of State and Republican U.S. Senate candidate who told The River City […]
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Photos & Video: UNiTE Cincinnati Celebrates Second Issue with Launch in Covington
The second issue of UNiTE Cincinnati is on newsstands and at retailers in Covington, Cincinnati, Newport, and Dayton as of this weekend. The free publication that highlights the LGBT community in the region celebrated with a launch party at Braxton Brewery in Covington on Friday evening. A Catered Affair laid out a terrific spread and Braxton was […]
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Presbyterian Decision on Gay Marriage Explained by Covington Pastor
Last week came a watershed moment in the history of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The history of the PCUSA, like any organization, like any Christian denomination, has its share of good moments and bad ones. Fundamentalism divided the church in the early 20th century. We were too long coming to the party during the Civil […]
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Kentucky Senate Passes Transgender Bathroom Bill
The state Senate passed legislation today to regulate where transgender students may use the restroom in public schools. The legislation would require public school students to use the restrooms of their biological sex or seek special accommodations, said Sen. C.B. Embry Jr., R-Morgantown, who sponsored the bill. Known as Senate Bill 76, the legislation passed […]
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In Surprise, Unannounced Vote, Kentucky Senate Committee Advances Anti-Transgender Bill
In a surprise vote with little notice and no testimony from opponents of the bill, the Kentucky Senate’s Education Committee advanced Senate Bill 76 which would require transgender students to use the bathroom designed for those of their biological sex. The bill was pushed by a conservative organization in the state after a high-profile situation […]
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Rick Robinson: Rob Portman Supporting Same-Sex Marriage? Right and RIGHT
This week Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) released a list of party officials endorsing him in his 2016 bid for reelection to the United States Senate. Many Ohio news sources passed on reporting Portman’s early broad base of grass-roots party support – instead giving column inches to some right-wing, neo-Federalists angered by his support for same-sex […]
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Rick Robinson: Rob Portman Supporting Same-Sex Marriage? Right and RIGHT
This week Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) released a list of party officials endorsing him in his 2016 bid for reelection to the United States Senate. Many Ohio news sources passed on reporting Portman’s early broad base of grass-roots party support – instead giving column inches to some right-wing, neo-Federalists angered by his support for same-sex […]
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Supreme Court’s Review of Kentucky Case Could Lead to Nationwide Legality of Same-Sex Marriage
The United States Supreme Court will review four same-sex marriage cases, including two from Kentucky involving five gay couples. After a federal judge ruled that Kentucky’s ban on same-sex marriage, approved by voters by a 3-1 margin in 2004, was unconstitutional, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling in November. That ruling also […]
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Supreme Court’s Review of Kentucky Case Could Lead to Nationwide Legality of Same-Sex Marriage
The United States Supreme Court will review four same-sex marriage cases, including two from Kentucky involving five gay couples. After a federal judge ruled that Kentucky’s ban on same-sex marriage, approved by voters by a 3-1 margin in 2004, was unconstitutional, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling in November. That ruling also […]
