Preventg Employment Discrimatn Agast Lbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgenr Workers (brochure) | U.S. Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn

Contents:

• PREVENTG EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN AGAST LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR WORKERS (BROCHURE)
• EEOC BACKS GAY EMPLOYEE LATT APPELLATE BATTLE OVER WORKPLACE RIGHTS
• A QUIET TRIUMPH FOR GAY WORKERS

PREVENTG EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN AGAST LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR WORKERS (BROCHURE)

Denyg an employee a promotn bee he is gay or straight.

Clayton County, by announcg the release of new rourc to te employe, applints and employers about the rights of all employe, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr workers, to be ee om sexual orientatn and genr inty discrimatn employment.

Gerald Bostock, a child welfare servic ordator, was fired after his employer learned he had joed a gay softball league.

EEOC BACKS GAY EMPLOYEE LATT APPELLATE BATTLE OVER WORKPLACE RIGHTS

Donald Zarda, a skydivg stctor, was fired after his employer learned he was gay. As the Court explaed, “discrimatn based on homosexualy or transgenr stat necsarily entails discrimatn based on sex; the first nnot happen whout the send.

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Five s ago, homosexualy was nsired a mental disorr. [11] Employe were asked whether they intified as “homosexual” or had ever had a same-sex relatnship. [12] Thoands of gay employe were fired or forced to rign om the feral workforce bee of their sexualy.

A QUIET TRIUMPH FOR GAY WORKERS

Park Police iated a “Sex Perversn Elimatn Program, ” targetg gay men for arrt and timidatn. Senate’s Special Submtee on Invtigatns issued a report entled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government. ”[14] The stated purpose of the report was “to terme the extent of the employment of homosexuals and other sex perverts Government; to nsir reasons why their employment by the Government is unsirable; and to exame to the efficy of the methods ed alg wh the problem.

”[15] The report nclud that sce homosexualy was “a mental illns, ” homosexuals “nstute secury risks” to the natn.

Much of the Red Sre rhetoric foced on moraly, and homosexualy was perceived as sharg many of the same tras and secury risks as Communism. By the late 1960s, ngrsnal and judicial efforts to prohib discrimatn agast LGBTQI+ dividuals began to grow out of creasg activism by gay and transgenr dividuals. This was sparked by the 1969 Stonewall Rebelln, a six-day prott followg a raid at the Stonewall Inn, one of the most popular gay bars New York Cy.