A Senate committee passes amended transgender bill. The Messenger (Madisonville, KY) – The Senate Education Committee has revisited a bill that would require transgender students to use bathrooms matching their biological sex. “We didn’t know that it was going to happen until about 30 seconds before it did,” he continued. “When the bill’s sponsor, Sen. […]
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Written by AP reports and Advocate.com A tiny city in southeastern Kentucky has enacted an LGBT rights ordinance that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The city commission of Vicco in southern Perry County passed the new law on Jan. 14. The population, according to the last census, is 334 people. Three
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BY BILL ESTEP – BESTEP@HERALD-LEADER.COM UPDATED NOVEMBER 27, 2012 9:06 AM LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (CBS) – A complaint has been filed against a teacher accused of writing anti-Democrat rhetoric on her classroom chalkboard. “You can’t be a Democrat & go to heaven,” the board of South Laurel High School teacher Kendra Baker read earlier this
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A gay man had his nose bitten off in protective custody at the Warren County Regional Jail. Gay civil rights activist Jordan Palmer and Kentucky Equality Federation’s legal representation, Jill Hall Rose, sue. An incarcerated gay man sued a southern Kentucky jail and a fellow inmate Tuesday, claiming the prisoner bit off part of his
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The Daily News Bowling Green – Brandon Milam, an openly gay former inmate of the Warren County Regional Jail, says hatred was the motivation for an assault he suffered at the jail in July. Minutes after teaching a group of other inmates how to play the card game hearts, Milam, 26, was sitting on the
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Two Kentucky men charged with federal hate crime in a beating attack on a gay man in an Appalachian park reports Jordan Palmer with Kentucky Equality Federation. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two Kentucky men have been charged with a federal hate crime in a beating attack on a gay man in an Appalachian park, marking the
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Kerry Harvey and Jordan Palmer announced a federal grand jury in London, Kentucky, indicted two men in the first Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act application. LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal grand jury in London, Ky. on Thursday indicted two men in the first federal application of the Matthew Shepard – James C. Bryd hate crimes
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Four people were charged Wednesday with kidnapping a man and taking him to a state park in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, then severely beating him while yelling slurs about his sexual orientation. The FBI arrested 37-year-old David Jason Jenkins of Cumberland, 20-year-old Anthony Ray Jenkins and 19-year-old Alexis Leann Combs Jenkins of
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Former political candidate Matthew Vanderpool found dead; Police say he shot himself. Matthew Vanderpool was the first openly gay person to run for public office in the Kentucky House of Representatives. His roommate was activist Jordan Palmer with the Kentucky Equality Federation. BY JENNIFER HEWLETT – JHEWLETT@HERALD-LEADER.COM UPDATED JULY 14, 2011 8:25 AM Matthew Vanderpool,
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Growing up, Hindman resident Shannon Ratliff didn’t know she was a lesbian, but like her friends –a group of girls and boys who loved one another unconditionally — she understood that she was different, she says. Although they went their separate ways, they kept in touch and learned in adulthood that
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