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Contents:
- SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
- 'WE TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER': A MARIME UNN'S HIDN HISTORY OF GAY-STRAIGHT AND INTERRACIAL SOLIDARY
- MIDWTERN STEELWORKERS SAY IT WAS EASIER TO BE GAY IN THE 1970S THAN TODAY, AUTHOR ANNE BALAY CLAIMS
- HOW TO BE GAY AT WORK
- GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE FACE HIGH RAT OF WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AND HARASSMENT
SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
Feral civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr workers, the Supreme Court led Monday. * workers gay *
“An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex. “There is simply no pg the role tent plays here: Jt as sex is necsarily a but-for e when an employer discrimat agast homosexual or transgenr employe, an employer who discrimat on the grounds pably tends to rely on sex s cisnmakg, ” the opn read.
“Today’s cisn is one of the urt’s most signifint lgs ever wh rpect to the civil rights of gay and transgenr dividuals, ” said Steve Vlack, CNN Supreme Court analyst and profsor at the Universy of Texas School of Law. Bostock, a gay man om Geia who claimed that spe receivg good performance reviews as a child welfare servic ordator, argued he was fired bee of his sexual orientatn.
'WE TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER': A MARIME UNN'S HIDN HISTORY OF GAY-STRAIGHT AND INTERRACIAL SOLIDARY
In a landmark lg for LGBT rights, the Supreme Court said workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr. * workers gay *
One year later, monstrators anized a march down Christopher Street to celebrate "Gay Pri" — a prott that has evolved to the pri march that n today be seen muni around the world. "However, some of the first rerd stanc of stutnal workplace discrimatn agast workers specifilly based on their LGBTQ inti (rather than for racial or genr inti) n be dated to the 1950, a Senate report tled "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government" was distributed to members of Congrs claimg that homosexualy and "sex perversn" posed a natnal secury risk and announcg that hundreds of ernment employe had been fired for spicn of homosexualy.
""In 1950, amid the 'Panic on the Potomac' as the prs lled at the time, the Senate began vtigatns to this homosexual 'menace, ' and culmated a Senate document known as the Howe Report which sentially legimized the systematic persecutn of queer feral employe for the next 25 years, " explas Cervi.
"What the Senate nclud after speakg wh the director of the CIA and var telligence officers was that homosexuals were herently unreliable, untstworthy, immoral and would harm the workplace environment.
MIDWTERN STEELWORKERS SAY IT WAS EASIER TO BE GAY IN THE 1970S THAN TODAY, AUTHOR ANNE BALAY CLAIMS
Des before the morn LGBTQ+ movement, a small but ant unn of marime workers on the Wt Coast wh openly gay members and lears ed a slogan lkg discrimatn agast gay men, racial discrimatn, and red-bag. For the better part of two s, the Mare Cooks and Stewards Unn fought discrimatn on the ships where s members worked and * workers gay *
"In 1953, Print Dwight Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which effectively banned homosexuals om workg for the feral ernment or any of s private ntractors.
"Print Eisenhower ran on the platform 1952, of 'Let's clean hoe' makg ference to the homosexual panic that had gripped the untry the early 1950s, " says Cervi. Miller, who was raised a relig fay, and stggled to e to terms wh his gay and genr-fluid inty, first me out at work while bartendg. To be hont, puttg gay male sex workers the red light district wdows is exactly the kd of equaly that we are lookg for we are lookg for the days; te visibily.
HOW TO BE GAY AT WORK
Why The Workers Found It Easier To Be Gay In The '70s Than Today * workers gay *
But, the particular men puttg themselv on display De Wallen are standg there as a part of a mpaign put on by My Red Light, a nonprof brothel that works to improve ndns for sex workers and HUNQZ, "the largt work for gay and bi male and trans pannship servic worldwi. "As a gay man livg Amsterdam, I often walk through the red light on the way home and wonr how different would be if there were men the wdows too, " Jens Schmidt, founr of HUNQZ, said a statement. The Supreme Court said Monday that workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr, a blockbter lg for LGBT historic 6-3 cisn was wrten by Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a nservative appoted by Donald Tmp.
"An dividual's homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns, " Gorsuch wrote the cisn, which applied to three separate s.
"That's bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex.
GAY AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE FACE HIGH RAT OF WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN AND HARASSMENT
The Supreme Court says the feral ban on discrimatn "based on sex" appli to gay, lbian and transgenr employe. * workers gay *
"Apple CEO Tim Cook, the first Fortune 500 chief executive to e out as gay, tweeted that he was grateful for the lg.
Gorsuch wrote that discrimatg agast an employee bee they are gay or transgenr is by fn discrimatn on the basis of sex. "Gregory Antollo, an attorney for Zarda, untered that "Don Zarda was a gay man who work skydivg were close ntact is required. Des before the morn LGBTQ+ movement, a small but ant unn of marime workers on the Wt Coast wh openly gay members and lears ed a slogan lkg discrimatn agast gay men, racial discrimatn, and red-bag.