Feral civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr workers, the Supreme Court led Monday.
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- PREVENTG EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN AGAST LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR WORKERS (BROCHURE)
- CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
PREVENTG EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN AGAST LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR WORKERS (BROCHURE)
Is your pany a welg place for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+1f sexual orientatn as “an herent or immutable endurg emotnal, romantic, or sexual attractn to other people”; the group f genr inty as “one’s nermost ncept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neher—how dividuals perceive themselv and what they ll themselv, ” notg that “one’s genr inty n be the same or different om their sex assigned at birth. ” A gay man at a Japane multatnal related: “It’s my b—I’ve been out about my fay sce I joed this pany. One Canadian terviewee relled, “My lleague overheard a nversatn when I was makg plans for the weekend and figured out I’m gay.
A gay man who is havg a child through a surrogate reunted: “I went through a paful procs wh my partnership, explag that isn’t appropriate to have a fay policy that giv me no fay leave as a matter of right. One Brish terviewee relled stanc where a client asked that an LGBTQ+ lleague be removed om the team “bee they were not happy a gay person was on their project. At the all-pany meetg that summer, one of the senr partners went on stage—there was a tradn where this partner would do stand-up edy—and ma a number of really homophobic ments.
One French executive told : “I had absolutely no role mol, bee none of the gay guys wanted to be out the workplace.
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
One terviewee relled, “I got troduced to somebody at a party, and he said, ‘Oh, you’re that gay lawyer om Atlanta. ” Another terviewee exprsed ncern that his firm was puttg him on display to burnish s progrsive crentials: “For many years, I was the only openly gay partner que a big firm.
Another participant scribed mentorg his pany’s print: “He’s not homophobic or anythg like that. It was only by engagg more, by havg a direct example of what means to be gay the workplace that he realized, ‘I need to get more volved, and visibly volved.
One rponnt reflected: “When a founr of our anizatn mak a reference at a pany meetg to, say, a gay lleague’s hband, 11 that normaliz the relatnship for the entire anizatn. This is gay. We had people g at , llg a ‘vil bank’—and the bety of that is we stood firm and told the bigots and homophob, ‘This is nonnegotiable.