Uganda's LGBTQ muny is ' shock' over new measure, gay activist says

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• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Image source, CQ-Roll Call Inc via Getty ImagThe top urt the US has led that employers who fire workers for beg gay or transgenr are breakg the untry's civil rights a 6-3 cisn, the Supreme Court said feral law, which prohibs discrimatn based on sex, should be unrstood to clu sexual orientatn and genr lg is a major w for LGBT workers and their even though the urt has bee more nservative. "An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex, " he wrote. 'An emotnal day'Sean K Hl, Palm Sprgs, CaliforniaToday's Supreme Court lg brought me to a gay man lucky enough to live California and origally e om New York I've never had to personally worry about losg a job or not beg hired simply bee of my sexual orientatn.

But as a fancial adviser workg wh clients all around the untry for over 30 years, I've heard untls stori of people who have lost their jobs simply for beg gay. It's angered and sadned me for so years now, I have been speakg at semars or wh iends and fay about how this day and age 's still perfectly legal to fire someone jt bee they're gay.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

It's difficult to overstate the signifince of the the urt is tablishg a long history of cisns expandg gay rights, this is the first time spoke directly about the legal protectns for transgenr the lg out jt days after the Tmp admistratn announced was removg transgenr health-surance protectns only puts the issue stark relief. "The only qutn before is whether an employer who fir someone for beg homosexual or transgenr has discharged or otherwise discrimated agast that dividual 'bee of such dividual's sex', " he answer, he said, was "clear" - even if such a scenar had not been anticipated when the law was wrten. "It is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex, " he nservative jtic opposed the lg: Samuel Alo, Clarence Thomas and Brett are the s?

The lg rolv three s brought by people who said they had been fired after their employers learned they were gay or transgenr.

Media ptn, A taxi service tryg to keep trans people safeDonald Zarda, a skydivg stctor om New York who died a skydivg accint 2014, had filed one of the other was dismissed after jokg wh a female client wh whom he was tanm-divg not to worry about the close physil ntact bee he was "100% gay". The pany mataed he was fired bee he shared personal rmatn wh a client, not bee he was gay, but a urt New York led Mr Zarda's Bostock, a former child welfare servic -ordator om Geia, lost his job after jog a gay recreatnal softball league, thereby publicly revealg his sexual orientatn.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

Mr Bostock lost his discrimatn se a feral urt key moments US LGBT history Jan 1958 - US Supreme Court l for first time favour of LGBT rights, sayg an LGBT magaze, emed obscene by the FBI and postal service, had First Amendment rightsJuly 1961 - Illois be first state to crimalise homosexualyJune 1969 - Protts beg after police raid Stonewall Inn New York Cy, now seen as start of gay rights movementSept 1996 - Print Clton f marriage as unn between "one man and one woman"June 2003 - US Supreme Court term sodomy laws to be unnstutnalOct 2009 - Democratic Print Obama signs Matthew Shepard and Jam Byrd Jr Hate Crim Law, expandg hate crime laws to clu sexual orientatnJune 2015 - US Supreme Court l 5-4 that same-sex marriage is legal across the untryJune 2016 - The Pentagon lifts s ban on transgenr Amerins serve the aryMarch 2018 - Republin Print Tmp issu a policy banng transgenr Amerins om servg aryMore on this story. In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opn piece tled “The stggle for gay rights is over”. The mise of the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act 2013 was followed by the end of the feral ban on marriage equaly 2015.

Wispread acceptance of same-sex marriage rights, gay people servg the ary and the need for protectns for LGBTQ+ people followed.

As recently as 2020, the urt, then wh two Tmp appote, led that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay, lbian and transgenr workers. In 1985, 89% of parents said they would be sad if they disvered their child was gay or a lbian.