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 [...]

December 21, 2017 By Hatewatch Staff Southern Poverty Law Center Former director of ADF International, Benjamin Bull, has taken a position with the Plano, Texas-based anti-LGBT and anti-choice group First Liberty Institute. Bull has been charged with launching and leading First Liberty’s efforts in Washington, D.C. Bull has a long history on the anti-LGBT right, serving not only with ADF International, but also in the past as general counsel of the American Family Association* and executive director of the Pat Robertson-founded American Center for [...]