The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn.
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BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
Laws that explicly mentn sexual orientatn primarily target, whether for protectn or harm, lbian, gay, and bisexual people. Transgenr people may intify as heterosexual, lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or somethg else.
The bevy of state laws ensurg that queer rints of California have accs to the same treatment as other people the state is, perhaps, one reason why the state remas a popular statn for gay upl.
C., for example, has most of the same anti-discrimatn laws found natnal lear California, except for legislatn that exprsly prohibs anti-gay discrimatn jury selectn. But, of urse, New York’s place the battle for acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny go back much further, as the Stonewall Uprisg, one of the first major ton of the gay rights movement, began June 1969 New York Cy’s Greenwich Village.