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Anti-Equality Legislation Moving in the States

April 27, 2011 by Jeremy Pittman

With many state legislatures facing adjournment dates in the next few weeks, anti-equality lawmakers around the country are ramping up attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Harmful legislation has already passed in a few states and is advancing in others.

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Nashville Passes Ordinance Requiring Contractors to Have Inclusive Non-Discrimination Policies

April 6, 2011 by Karin Quimby

Last night marked a milestone moment for Nashville’s – and Tennessee’s – LGBT community. The Nashville/Davidson County Metro Council voted by the slimmest of margins to pass an ordinance requiring city government contractors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their company nondiscrimination policies.

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Lesbians' Home Burned Down in Tennessee

September 16, 2010

Many of us who are LGBT have endured poor treatment—slights, looks, subtle hostilities. Few of us have our homes burned down because of it. This is what appears to have happened several days ago to Carol Ann and Laura Stutte, long-time life partners who have been together for 15 years and are raising a daughter in the small town of Vonore, Tennessee, just south of Knoxville.

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FedEx to Offer Partner Benefits

May 25, 2010

After more than a decade since it publicly opposed them, Tennessee-based FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), #59 on the Fortune 500 will offer domestic partner benefits to its employees starting in 2012. When the city and county of San Francisco passed its groundbreaking Equal Benefits Ordinance in the late 1990s, which requires city contractors to provide equal benefits for same-sex partners as for different-sex spouses of employees, one of the most vocal opponents was FedEx.

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