Pennsylvania House passes Fairness Act for LGBTQ+ residents by one vote

Bill to block whites-only communities clears Pennsylvania House - The Keystone Newsroom

Pennsylvania lawmakers have taken a step toward prohibiting whites-only communities from forming in the commonwealth and adding discrimination protections for LGBTQ individuals to state law. The bill that squeaked through the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on April 28 seeks to close legal loopholes that enabled an extremist group to carve out roughly 160 acres in Arkansas for a whites-only community. The leaders of this group, called Retu…

Pennsylvania House passes Fairness Act for LGBTQ+ residents by one vote

The 101-100 vote came after the bill was pulled from a vote in March.

Pennsylvania House narrowly passes Fairness Act, reviving statewide LGBTQ nondiscrimination fight

The Pennsylvania House voted Tuesday to advance legislation that would finally place explicit LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections into state law, marking another major chapter in a fight that queer Pennsylvanians and […] The post Pennsylvania House narrowly passes Fairness Act, reviving statewide LGBTQ nondiscrimination fight appeared first on QBurgh.