Man who won gay rights se at SCOTUS agre to $825,000 settlement

Contents:

• GEIA MAN FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS U.S. SUPREME COURT 'HOTLANTA' SE
• GEIA MAN WHO WON LANDMARK GAY RIGHTS SE AT SCOTUS AGRE TO $825,000 SETTLEMENT
• ONGOG INVTIGATN: GEIA GAY COUPLE’S PEDOPHILE RG MAY EXTEND FURTHER
• GEIA MAN BRGS GAY RIGHTS SE TO U.S. SUPREME COURT
• 11TH CIRCU COURT PUNTS GEIA GAY MARRIAGE SE TO SUPREME COURT
• MAN WHO WON GAY RIGHTS CASE AT SCOTUS AGRE TO SETTLEMENT
• GEIA GAY RIGHTS GROUP BACKS EX-CLAYTON OFFICIAL HIGH URT DISCRIMATN SE

GEIA MAN FIGHTS FOR GAY RIGHTS U.S. SUPREME COURT 'HOTLANTA' SE

- Months after jog the gay-iendly Hotlanta Softball League, Gerald Bostock was out of a job a Geia unty ernment office and was nvced he had bee the victim of workplace discrimatn based on his sexual of his job as an advote for children ught up the juvenile jtice system Clayton County suburban Atlanta, Bostock said he was shocked when he was abptly fired 2013, an actn that figur promently a major LGBTQ rights fight g before the U. A rabow-lored gay pri flag flutters outsi. “I don’t even remember drivg home, ” Bostock believ that jog the league drew attentn to his sexual orientatn and that his firg was motivated by anti-gay sentiment.

8 three related s cludg Bostock’s on whether gay and transgenr people are protected om workplace discrimatn by a landmark civil rights VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars employers om discrimatg agast employe on the basis of sex as well as race, lor, natnal orig and relign. At issue the three s is whether the protectns agast sex discrimatn ver gay and transgenr people. A lg favor of Bostock would give gay and transgenr workers greater protectns, pecially the 28 stat cludg Geia that do not have prehensive measur on the books agast employment discrimatn.

GEIA MAN WHO WON LANDMARK GAY RIGHTS SE AT SCOTUS AGRE TO $825,000 SETTLEMENT

A lg agast him would mean gay and transgenr people those stat would have few optns if they enunter workplace discrimatn. “The unty ni that Bostock’s sexual orientatn was a motivatg factor s cisn to nduct an d of the program he managed or s cisn to termate his employment after the d was pleted, ” the lawyers two other s the Supreme Court will hear raise siar volv a now-ceased New York skydivg stctor named Donald Zarda who was fired by his employer 2010 after revealg he was gay. “Bs and their employe all benef om the nsistency and predictabily that uniform feral law provis natnwi, ” the pani said their fn of 'sex'The legal fight centers on the fn of “sex” the Civil Rights platiffs and civil rights groups have argued that discrimatg agast gay and transgenr workers is based on their sex and, th, unlawful.

The Tmp admistratn and the three employers acced of discrimatn have argued that Congrs did not tend for Tle VII to protect gay and transgenr people when passed the law.

Harris Funeral Hom Inc the transgenr Supreme Court livered a landmark gay rights cisn 2015 legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi. But s dynamics on LGBTQ issu have changed followg the 2018 retirement of Jtice Anthony Kennedy, a nservative who backed gay rights several major s and wrote the same-sex marriage Tle VII s reprent the urt’s first major tt on gay and transgenr rights sce Tmp appoted nservative Jtice Brett Kavangh to replace Kennedy on a urt wh a 5-4 nservative majory, wh the four liberal jtic sympathetic to LGBTQ rights.

ONGOG INVTIGATN: GEIA GAY COUPLE’S PEDOPHILE RG MAY EXTEND FURTHER

Kavangh, whose approach to gay rights is unclear, uld provi a pivotal, strongly supported by evangelil Christian voters, has unrmed gay and transgenr rights sce takg office 2017. His admistratn has supported the right of certa bs to refe to serve gay people on the basis of relig objectns to gay marriage, rtricted transgenr service members the ary and rcd protectns on bathroom accs for transgenr stunts public workg as a mental health unsellor at nearby Geia Regnal Hospal, Bostock said he will not give up his fight for gay rights even if the Supreme Court l agast him.

Supreme Court lg that said civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om discrimatn Clayton County Board of Commissners this week approved an $825, 000 settlement for Gerald Lynn Bostock, his lawyer Ed Buckley said Friday.

GEIA MAN BRGS GAY RIGHTS SE TO U.S. SUPREME COURT

Bostock had sued the unty, which ss jt south of Atlanta, sayg he was fired 2013 bee he is gay. Bostock asserted a 2016 lawsu that he was fired om his job as a urt child welfare servic ordator bee he’s gay. His participatn a gay softball league and his sexual orientatn were openly cricized by people wh cisn-makg power at his job, and he was fired several months after jog the league, the lawsu unty argued his dismissal was based on an d of funds he managed.

Walton County Geia gay activists uple, Dale Zulock Jr. Park is the first openly gay man elected to the Geia Legislature.

Karla Drenner, an Avondale Estat Democrat and the state’s first openly gay reprentative, was first elected 2000.

11TH CIRCU COURT PUNTS GEIA GAY MARRIAGE SE TO SUPREME COURT

She said she’s seen and fought agast numero anti-gay piec of legislatn sce then and unrstands how advot might be moralized, but she urged them to fight on. What settl the issue of acceptance my md is that every gay person Geia needs to e out and vote, vote for the one person that we know would not roll back marriage equaly, that do not make feel like we’re not part of Geia. Over the past two s, gays and lbians have won enormo U.

Supreme Court victori that pulled the LGBTQ muny ever closer to legal urt overturned crimal sodomy laws 2003, required the ernment to extend benefs to gay upl 2013 and, s landmark lg four years ago, legalized same-sex a Geia man fds himself at the center of what is expected to be the next big lg on gay rights, the high urt's first wh a new, solidly nservative majory of Bostock claims he was fired om his job wh Clayton County bee he’s se, to be argued Tuday, asks the high urt to fd that Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects lns of gays and lbians across the untry om discrimatn the workplace. “The text of Tle VII do not clu sexual orientatn or homosexualy as a protected class. ExploreOften the key vote and thor of a number of landmark gay rights cisns, Kennedy retired as a jtice the summer of succsor, nservative Jtice Brett Kavangh, uld bee a new swg vote that halts the progrs of gays and lbian ligants before the high urt, legal experts say.

“I loved my job, ” Bostock said durg an terview at his home where rabow gay pri and UGA Bulldog flags few outsi.

MAN WHO WON GAY RIGHTS CASE AT SCOTUS AGRE TO SETTLEMENT

”But January 2013, Bostock joed the Honey Badgers of the gay Hotlanta Softball League. “Wh months of me jog my gay softball team, I began gettg disparagg ments about my sexual orientatn. There were disparagg ments ma not only about that but also my promotg the Clayton program wh the gay muny of Atlanta.

“My msage to Clayton County is: Homophobia is unacceptable, ” Bostock said. Evans (1996) — Stck down an amendment that prohibed ci Colorado om enactg laws signed to protect gays and lbians om Suts v. Dale (2000) — Ruled that the Boy Suts of Ameri had a nstutnal right to bar gays om servg as sutmasters.

GEIA GAY RIGHTS GROUP BACKS EX-CLAYTON OFFICIAL HIGH URT DISCRIMATN SE

Texas (2003) — Stck down a Texas law that crimalized nsentg homosexual adults om engagg sexual nductg. Extra to the new charg agast the spected child rapists who equently hashtagged their social media posts #gayfay, " there are now ditns they may have trafficked the young boys to fellow 's the background?

Lawls rmed on the Zulocks, notg that Zachary, whom he met on the gay datg app Grdr, discsed the prospect of "f***g [his] son tonight. \u201cThe dictment charg the gay uple wh solicg two other men to "perform an act of prostutn" wh their 11-year-old adopted child: Hunter Lawls, who met the one adoptive father (Zachary) through a mutual ntact on Grdr, and Luis Vizrro-Sanchez.