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The Federal Equality Act Could Make Bills Like HB 2 Relics of the Past Today, the U.S. House is set to pass the Equality Act, a sweeping bill that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in employment, housing, education, jury service, federally funded programs including healthcare, and businesses and any other spaces or entities that serve the public. These include retail stores, exhibitions, recreation, amusement and exercise providers, providers of goods, services and programs, and transportation service provide...

Chapel Hill Adds LGBTQ+ Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Jade Wilson It looks like Orange County is now the safest place for LGBTQ folks in North Carolina. The Chapel Hill Town Council voted unanimously to approve an update to their anti-discrimination ordinance on Wednesday night, which will protect people from discrimination in businesses and in the workplace. It is the third Orange County municipality to do so, following Hillsborough's historic Monday night vote and Carrboro's unanimous vote Tuesday. The three towns came together to organize the effort after a key component of HB 142...

Hillsborough Becomes First Town to Enact LGBTQ Protections Post-HB 142 Courtesy of the subjects Gay elected officials championing anti-discrimination ordinances to protect LGBTQ residents (L-R): Hillsborough Commissioner Matt Hughes, Chapel Hill Council Member Karen Stegman, Carrboro Council Member Damon Seils and Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle. Not Raleigh, or Charlotte, or Greensboro—it was Hillsborough, a town of 7,000 people, who made history Monday night by enacting North Carolina's first LGBTQ anti-discrimination policy in the ashes of HB 142. The ordinance passed unanimously. “...

Sudden eliminated this election. it was something that was real, that was impactful. jeff sessions, his own words saying i find voting rights obtrusive. and every american should really be figuring out where are they going to stand. because as we are increasingly a diverse country, when we're trying to participate, and we have an administration hostile to participation, we have to be adamant. our democracy's as strong as our participation. >> there was another announcement of the appointment to the trump administration, a supporter of hb-2. >> office of civil rights. >> the civil rights divisi...

Lost revenue in north carolina for hb2 there, and a minimum of some 1,400 jobs lost because of hb-2. what are some of the numbers that you're looking at, in addition to what you were mentioning there, that would affect texas? texas, as you know, very big state. >> very big state with a lot more big cities. a lot more tourism, actually. it will be hurt more. if this law passes, yes, sports, entertainment, conventions, meetings. we're just dumbfounded that the people in texas would do this to their own state after they saw what north carolina did to its state. but they seem -- there are a lot of...