Can You Be Fired for Beg Gay? How to Protect Your Right - The Daily Iowan

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• IT’S 2019, AND YOUR BOSS N STILL FIRE YOU FOR BEG GAY THE STAT
• HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS
• 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
• POT OF VIEW: Y, MANY STAT, PEOPLE N STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
• THIS MAP SHOWS THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN BE LEGALLY FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? HOW TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT
• MOST STAT LET BOSS FIRE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY. MAJORI EVERY STATE DON'T APPROVE.

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

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. 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. ) Now that the Jtice Department has clarified that se prev, more clive lgs by the Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn as legally merls, stat that lack LGBT non-discrimatn protectns are left wonrg which of those two feral agenci to abi York state recently add genr inty to s non-discrimatn protectns alongsi sexual orientatn (while Florida, spe experiencg a vastatg mass shootg targetg a gay nightclub Orlando last year, notably has not).

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

The stat that actually bar discrimatn for both sexual orientatn and genr inty both the public and private sector are still the mory: 20 do so, pl the District of Electn ImpactBut spe the fact that ’s still legal for pani 28 stat to fire employe for beg gay or transgenr–and notwhstandg Tmp’s manift hostily to LGBT rights–there are signs this year that polil wds are blowg over that map a more clive directn. ” They were sistent that love is only love when occurs between a man and a spe s of polil mpaigns, pulp poundg and other fervent attempts to portray gays and lbians as ls servg of God’s love, ls servg of societal regnn and certaly unf for marriage, those battl have largely been lost. The natn protects gay marriage and has an openly gay Cabet member, but Secretary of Transportatn Pete Buttigieg and his hband uld be fired or nied a hoe many Equaly Act would end Equaly Act passed the Hoe on Feb.

Relig nservativ, jt like relig liberals, n believe whatever they wish to uphold unr the banner of n cry that their God disdas homosexualy, or nversely that God’s love is all n claim that trans people are simply “nfed, ” or accept what science and medil profsnals one should be able to discrimate agast someone a public space and ll their fah, their relig right to do Equaly Act simply seeks to dify this fairns to law. Tim Cook me out as gay an say Bsweek on Thursday.

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

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. 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. 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.

POT OF VIEW: Y, MANY STAT, PEOPLE N STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY

"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.

" 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.

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

"Gregory Antollo, an attorney for Zarda, untered that "Don Zarda was a gay man who work skydivg were close ntact is required.

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

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

Dpe recent advanc LGBT rights such as the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell and Sectn 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), there is still a long way to go until gay, lbian, and transgenr Amerins achieve full equaly the Uned Stat.

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.

THIS MAP SHOWS THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN BE LEGALLY FIRED FOR BEG GAY

” 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.

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

Some stat such as Kansas, Texas, Geia, or Florida do not have specific verage for gay discrimatn, but still, protect agast general discrimatn. 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.

In most stat, is legal for an employer to fire someone, a landlord to evict someone, and a bs owner to ny service to someone — all bee the person qutn is gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, or queer. As a rult, more than half of LGBTQ Amerins, acrdg to the LGBTQ advocy group Movement Advancement Project, live a state where, unr state law, an employer n legally fire someone bee he's gay, a landlord n legally evict someone bee she's a lbian, and a hotel manager n legally ny service to someone who's transgenr — for no reason other than the person's sexual orientatn or genr inty.

MOST STAT LET BOSS FIRE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY. MAJORI EVERY STATE DON'T APPROVE.

In a 2014 poll om YouGov and the Huffgton Post, 62 percent of rponnts said was already illegal unr feral law to fire someone for beg gay or lbian, 14 percent said was legal, and 25 percent weren't sure. The same poll found most Amerins — 76 percent — said should be illegal to fire someone for beg gay or lbian, while jt 12 percent said should be legal. But 's also legal most stat to discrimate agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr — LGBT — people the areas of employment, hog and public acmodatn.

So many stat, a person uld marry someone of the same genr and then get fired for beg gay. "Most stat have no nondiscrimatn protectns for LGBT people, " says David Stacy, ernment affairs director for the Human Rights Campaign, a natnal gay-rights group.

Gay-rights activists are urgg state lawmakers to change anti-discrimatn laws — which already clu thgs such as race, age, relign and disabily — to clu LGBT people.