December 29, 2017 by Mattie John Bamman EATER, Portland, OR The now shuttered Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which refused service to and doxxed the gay couple will pay damages equalling $135,000 This week, the Oregon Court of Appeals confirmed Melissa and Aaron Klein must pay damages equalling $135,000 for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2013, the Oreports. The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that the Kleins’ now-shuttered Gresham bakery, Sweet Cakes by Melisa, violated the Oregon Equality Act, when it [...]

December 28, 2017 JAY MICHAELSON, SAMANTHA ALLEN, TIM TEEMAN The Daily Beast Jay Michaelson: So, here we are at the end of a strange year for LGBTQ Americans. On the one hand, mainstream acceptance of gay people continues to spread; gays are now officially boring. On the other hand, trans people are being singled out for government persecution on the one hand and continued street violence on the other. Meanwhile, as all three of us have written, the Trump-Pence administration is inflicting the "death [...]