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All Out Knoxville connects local LGBTQ communities

In Press Forward by Rose KennedyJune 8, 2017leave a COMMENT

Q&A: Shannon Herron, founder and president Shannon Herron is president of All Out Knoxville, a social organization focused on providing the LGBTQ+ community with opportunities to connect with and support …

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Six Who Dare: Emerge Tennessee’s Inaugural Class of Democratic Women Candidates From Knoxville

In Cover Stories by Rose KennedyMay 10, 2017leave a COMMENT

2016 will always be remembered as the year the first major-party female candidate for president skidded to defeat. But 150 other Democratic women candidates in 16 states had an entirely different …

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Roddy Biggs, Human Rights Campaign Youth Ambassador, Helps Combat Tennessee’s LGBTQ Setbacks

In News by Rose KennedyMay 10, 2017leave a COMMENT

About an hour before the story hit news media that Gov. Bill Haslam had signed SB1085/HB1111 into law May 5—requiring undefined words like “mother” and “father” be given “their natural …

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A 6-Year-Old Transgender Girl in Knoxville Writes a Letter to the U.S. District Court of Appeals

In News by Rose KennedyMarch 29, 2017leave a COMMENT

Thousands of transgender-rights advocates across the nation have pledged to support Gavin Grimm, the transgender Gloucester, Va. student who sued his high school for barring him from the restroom used …

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State and Local Trans Support Groups to “Gather for Gavin” March 27

In The Daily Dumpster Blog by Rose KennedyMarch 24, 2017leave a COMMENT

Although the Supreme Court belatedly decided not to hear the potentially landmark case of Gavin Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, the transgender support and awareness groups in the Knoxville …

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