‘Death Threats’ at Indiana Church Followg Young Boy’s Gay-Bashg Song |

Contents:

• GAY AND FIRED INDIANA
• GAYT PLAC IN INDIANA FOR 2020
• DATG GAY SGL IN GREENSBURG, INDIANA, UNED STAT
• ‘DEATH THREATS’ AT INDIANA CHURCH FOLLOWG YOUNG BOY’S GAY-BASHG SONG
• DATG GAY SGL IN GREENSBURG, INDIANA, UNED STAT
• KEH GAY

GAY AND FIRED INDIANA

He appreciated that the upsle furnure cha offered domtic-partner benefs and that he uld be openly gay among several other gay lleagu, an environment where seemed perfectly okay to talk about one’s same-sex pann or spoe. Everythg changed around midnight on a Saturday Febary 2012, when Gilmore participated a naked-butt ntt at 501 Eagle, a lol gay bar.

So was Gilmore fired bee his off-hours olics were gay nature? Gilmore says that at no pot did his managers explicly object to the fact that his behavr took place a gay bar. But he also says that he socialized regularly wh both straight and gay lleagu and there’d been all sorts of off-se shenanigans, cludg unrage drkg and lleague hookups.

A former -worker, a gay man who asked not to be named, told me that Gilmore’s firg, which management refed to expla to workers, put enough of a chill on their store to prod him to leave for a job another state. But the larger qutn is, what uld Gilmore do about if he uld prove his manager was creeped out by his horsg around a gay bar?

GAYT PLAC IN INDIANA FOR 2020

After the firg, he and his partner, who also works retail, ed money om their 401K to open Toolbox Men’s Supply Company, a store Indy’s quat gayborhood that sells stuff like lorful jockstraps.

Des worth of natnal and lol surveys have found that gay and lbian workers report wispread job bias. The lawyers told me they get lls equently om gay and trans folks who thk they’ve been discrimated agast — and ually, they have to turn people away. Ined, as soon as the Supreme Court led favor of gay marriage, many started wonrg jt how far the prciple of relig eedom uld go unrmg the lg.

He was echog the sentiments of antigay, “pro-fay” activists who have for s promoted such relig-eedom laws. No Christian bakery owner should say that people volved homosexual behavr uldn’t shop their bakery…. However, when a ctomer seeks special participatn om the baker, askg him or her to specially rate a ‘gay’ weddg ke…then there is a very different le crossed.

DATG GAY SGL IN GREENSBURG, INDIANA, UNED STAT

A 2013 Huffgton Post poll found that 69 percent of rponnts believed, wrongly, that feral law already bars employers om firg people bee they are gay or lbian. I recreated my own, unscientific versn of a discrimatn survey gay bars and clubs throughout Indiana May. I was stck by how normal of an occurrence discrimatn seemed to be the liv of gay and trans Hoosiers, and the way which their stori echoed Gilmore’s — the bias shroud reasonable doubt, the victims nfed about whether and how to rpond, and most episos ncludg wh an LGBT person’s retreat om the mastream.

‘DEATH THREATS’ AT INDIANA CHURCH FOLLOWG YOUNG BOY’S GAY-BASHG SONG

At Someplace Else, a popular gay club Evansville, on Indiana’s southern borr wh Kentucky, a 33-year-old bartenr, who whheld his name, told me that a ago he’d been happily employed as a teacher at a nearby private school for kids wh disabili. “My workers knew I was gay and they didn’t re, ” he said. At a gay bar Hammond, not far om Chigo, William Sibley, 24, told me that when he’d gone to a major regnal partment store two months before to apply for a job, the manager told him flat-out, “I don’t hire gay people — we’ve had a problem wh them the past.

DATG GAY SGL IN GREENSBURG, INDIANA, UNED STAT

’ He don’t like me beg gay eher. Ian Burn, Nmark’s PhD stunt at Irve, has looked at Cens jobs data between 1990 and 2012 for gay men — he exclud women to le out the sex-discrimatn factor — who historilly have ma 10 to 32 percent ls than their straight male unterparts. His unpublished study found that after stat wrote sexual orientatn and genr inty to their antidiscrimatn laws, wag for gay men went both up and down, pendg on the strength of the law.

KEH GAY

In jurisdictns wh toothls laws, like the one Evansville, Indiana, wag actually went down; whereas plac where anti-bias laws clud penalti, gay men saw a 2 to 4 percent crease employment and a 3 to 7 percent crease wag. ReelQ is an annual film ftival hosted by The Ptsburgh Lbian & Gay Film Society and programs approximately 20 first-n LGBTQ+ themed feature length films and 30+ short films.

This is our sixth time rankg the gayt plac left for slishow. Article ntu the Supreme Court led favor of same-sex marriag, Ameri generally, and the gay muny specifilly, celebrated.

Same-sex marriag, and the gay and lbian movement is more mastream than the natnal discsn has been brought to the foreont, at the state level, nversatns you know that an timated 0. 27% of Indiana rints is gay?