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Utah 2021 Legislative Session wrapup
The 45-day session of the 2021 Utah State Legislature concluded and, in short, bills most affecting Utah’s LGBTQ community were…
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Utah Supreme Court has not ruled on transgender gender marker change cases in two years
On January 17 of this year, it will have been two years since Angie Rice and Sean Childers-Gray nervously stood…
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The 1992 Utah hate crime bill
The first attempt in Utah to include sexual orientation as part of a hate crime bill was introduced in the…
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UPDATE: Anti-trans bill pulled from committee agenda
UPDATE: This bill has been pulled from Thursday’s agenda of the House Health and Human Services Committee. Representatives from Equality…
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Gov. Herbert talks LGBTQ inclusion in Utah hate crime law, transgender birth certificate changes
At Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s monthly press conference Thursday, several reporters kicked off their questioning with LGBTQ inclusion in hate…
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Utah bill seeks to narrowly define sex
Rep. Merrill Nelson, R-Grantsville, has introduced a bill to the Utah State Legislature that would narrowly define the term “sex”…
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The gay 90s
The decade of the “Gay Nineties” saw the issues of anti-discrimination protection go from being a trickle to a fast…
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Gay & Lesbian Utah Democrats’ tumultuous ’96
A casualty of an uncompromising homophobic state legislature session in 1996 was the demise of the Gay and Lesbian Utah…
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Utah GOP lawmakers file brief with the Supreme Court: It’s all about the children
Saying that they “are sincerely dedicated to representing and protecting the interests of all Utah citizens,” 80 Republican members of…
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Utah bill would raise funds to fight same-sex marriage on income tax forms
Rep. Merrill F. Nelson, R. Grantsville, has submitted House Bill 78 titled, “Marriage Defense Fund,” that would collect money to…
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