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Contents:

• IT’S STILL LEGAL TO FIRE GAYS ARIZONA
• THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? HOW TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT
• 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
• DPE SUPREME COURT LG, YOU N STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY, TRANSGENR | WEBB
• IT’S 2019, AND YOUR BOSS N STILL FIRE YOU FOR BEG GAY THE STAT
• TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE
• SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
• WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY: WHAT CAN I DO?
• HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS

IT’S STILL LEGAL TO FIRE GAYS ARIZONA

Every gallon of ice cream you purchase the Grand Canyon State is guaranteed to weigh at least four and a half beg an Arizonan don’t guarantee you is the right to not be fired for beg gay, and Governor Ja Brewer’s veto of SB 1062 don’t change a damn thg about that. Lost the celebratn of the bill’s downfall is the fact that ’s jt as legal Arizona today to fire someone, ny them service, and evict them for beg gay or lbian as was yterday.

It’s unclear what the pot is of legalizg discrimatn that’s already legal, but siar “turn away the gay” bills are currently pendg Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oh, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Tennsee.

The print’s fenrs ce nebulo “polil reali” that prevent him om signg the orr, but the realy is that 69 percent of Amerins thk ’s already illegal to fire someone for beg gay, lbian, bisexual, or would hope that the $64-billn price tag of workplace discrimatn should be enough motivatn to fally pass a feral nondiscrimatn act—there’s one wag for a vote the Hoe of Reprentativ this very mute! Opposn of religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people? Support of homosexualy by US state?

THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY

HistoryHomosexual activy Arizona? Homosexual activy Arizona is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Arizona?

Tim Cook me out as gay an say Bsweek on Thursday. And while some stat and ci have passed their own protectns, there are still 29 stat where you n actually be fired for beg gay, leavg more than half of all total workers vulnerable to employment Amerins rrectly thk that this problem has already been solved.

CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? HOW TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT

A 2013 HuffPost/YouGov poll found that 69 percent of Amerins thk that firg people for beg gay is illegal. "If hearg that the CEO of Apple is gay n help someone stgglg to e to terms wh who he or she is, or brg fort to anyone who feels alone, or spire people to sist on their equaly, then ’s worth the tra-off wh my own privacy, " Cook wrote his say. Gay rights still have a long way to go.

Y, gay marriag are legal many stat, but there are some areas which the gay muny is a hard “nope. ” And while there is a movement where the gay muny is beg slowly but surely accepted, not everyone shar the beliefs.

This means that Arkansas and Tennsee, you n actually be fired for beg gay, and you nnot really brg that plat to urt. Some stat such as Kansas, Texas, Geia, or Florida do not have specific verage for gay discrimatn, but still, protect agast general discrimatn.

15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY

In other stat, while some s of discrimatn are helped, the gay muny is still phed unrneath a veil. For stance, Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill sparked uproar the LGBT muny of the state, unr the claims that their rights and voic were opprsed. If the state law protects you and you n brg proof of gay discrimatn, you n do somethg about your se.

In some stat, you n’t get fired for beg gay – but others, there is nothg stoppg your boss om dog so. Supreme Court led on Monday that the Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ dividuals om beg fired due to their sexual orientatn or genr inty, felt like an alien visor om a nicer, alternate vote me down 6-3, wh Tmp appotee Neil Gorsuch penng the majory Court grants feral job protectns to gay, lbian, transgenr workersHuge problems still persist. Dependg on where you work, you n still get fired for beg gay or U.

DPE SUPREME COURT LG, YOU N STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY, TRANSGENR | WEBB

Any lg, though, uld easily apply to LGBTQ 2019, two Indianapolis-area Catholic schools each fired a teacher for beg gay.

This weekend will mark 50 years sce an uprisg at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn sparked what many nsir to be the birth of the morn gay-rights movement.

IT’S 2019, AND YOUR BOSS N STILL FIRE YOU FOR BEG GAY THE STAT

And yet, 17 stat still offer no protectns at all, leavg employe those stat vulnerable to anti-gay harassment, retaliatn, and other forms of workplace map below shows how each state breaks down. There may not yet be te equaly this untry, but we are equal on paper for the very first I was born 1964, Illois was the only state that did not have an anti-sodomy law that crimalized gay relatnships.

As a stunt, I never heard a teacher say a posive thg about lbian, bisexual, gay, or transgenr people. I’m probably alive today bee of I told my mother I was gog to be a teacher she said, “You are gay. Gay teachers.

TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE

Shortly after I beme the Oregon State Teacher of the Year 2014, I was fired for not beg able to keep my mouth shut after my school warned me not to say public that I was gay. As a gay man, I n make the life of Ls, Gs, Bs, and Ts better by havg a picture of my fay on my sk. It might be the only time their K-12 school experience when a stunt se that gay people have normal liv wh dogs and barbecu the backyard.

Bostock was fired bee he joed a gay softball league.

SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR

Read that sentence but take out the word “gay. ” I was fired bee I was openly gay.

Take out “gay” and replace wh all the other thgs I am: gger, Irish, a lapsed Catholic, a member sce 1973 wh lifetime standg of the Archie Comics Fan Club. I’m a lot of thgs, none of which I should have been fired schools eventually reopen, LGBT teachers will walk through those doors for the first time knowg they n no longer be fired for beg gay. The Supreme Court said Monday that workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr, a blockbter lg for LGBT historic 6-3 cisn was wrten by Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a nservative appoted by Donald Tmp.

"An dividual's homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns, " Gorsuch wrote the cisn, which applied to three separate s. "That's bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex. The s were brought by three workers who said they were fired om their jobs bee they were gay or transgenr.

WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY: WHAT CAN I DO?

" Bostock was fired om his job as a child welfare servic ordator 2013 after jog a gay softball league. "Apple CEO Tim Cook, the first Fortune 500 chief executive to e out as gay, tweeted that he was grateful for the lg. Gorsuch wrote that discrimatg agast an employee bee they are gay or transgenr is by fn discrimatn on the basis of sex.

"We no longer live a society where a Gay uple n be married on Friday and fired for that marriage on Monday. "Gregory Antollo, an attorney for Zarda, untered that "Don Zarda was a gay man who work skydivg were close ntact is required.

HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS

"I thk the first rponse is the bt, bee reveals discrimatn – that Don Zarda said he was gay.