Today was the adle for Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchson to veto SB 202, a law that will now effectively force ci and towns the state to perm gay discrimatn
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THAT ANTI-GAY BILL ARKANSAS ACTUALLY BEME LAW TODAY. WHY ULDN’T ACTIVISTS STOP ?
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But when a temporary urt lg ma way for her nuptials, her fiancee “didn’t want to miss the opportuny” they moved up their weddg date, and Jennifer and Krist Seaton-Rambo did end up makg history, as the first gay uple married this former heart of the nferacy when beme the first southern US state to allow same-sex marriage – albe for jt a week May.
More immediately, she is ncerned for her fay, whom she feared uld be “discrimated agast jt for beg seen beg supportive of ” is life beg out the Amerin south, where discrimatn exacts a daily toll, and pecially Arkansas, where a circuo route to LGBT equaly now appears to be operatg reverse as anti-gay legislatn ph already vulnerable cizens further to the of last week, is legal Arkansas not to protect agast LGBT discrimatn the workplace. Lookg down the bar at Six Ten, one of the very few gay waterg hol Ltle Rock, Arkansas’s biggt cy, Abner says Republins, who normally champn lol ntrol, have “sudnly fotten that”.
Mab says he is worried about how the bill will affect HIV/Aids, given how dangero the disease is across the Amerin south even before SB 202 add to what Mab lled “the racism, homophobia and stigma we already face”. “This is not a gay thg. ”A gay man who asked not to be named scribed workg as an aircraft manufacturg technician a “blue-llar environment”.
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court led Monday that a landmark civil-rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om discrimatn employment. * arkansas lgbt discrimination *
Photograph: Wikimedia CommonsJt three months after Arkansas started and stopped handg out marriage licens to LGBT upl last year, Fayetteville – a llege town that is also home to thoands of employe om Walmart’s nearby headquarters – passed a landmark non-discrimatn ordance of s impet for passg the lol measure, said Fayetteville cy uncil member Mark Kn, was to make sure all LGBT cizens enjoyed the kds of employment protectns he was afford at the pharmactil manufacturer SmhKle before he Kn, who is openly gay, said his employer’s protectns were “limed”, that there was “still discrimatn” on the job, and that Fayetteville’s ordance went beyond the workplace and extend to “everyone, pecially the transgenr muny”. “I re about gay rights, ” Rayne said, “but I re more about queer jtice.