Can you be fired for beg gay? Answer pends largely on where you live

Contents:

• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• WORKERS N’T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT L
• TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE
• WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT SAYS LANDMARK LG
• FIRED FOR BEG OPENLY GAY
• FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• TEACHER FIRED FOR BEG GAY GETS AN APOLOGY FOUR DES LATER
• CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? ANSWER PENDS LARGELY ON WHERE YOU LIVE
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
• I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY, BUT NOW I'M FREE
• DPE SUPREME COURT LG, YOU N STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY, TRANSGENR | WEBB
• £50,000 PAYOUT FOR GAY MAN FIRED BY RAF

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

*Government lays ban for five years*Prsure on Sunak to act*LGBTQ+ activists fear loophol*Campaigners divid over trans rightsBy Lucy MiddletonLONDON, July 20 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Alex me out as gay, the 15-year-old’s parents issued a stark ultimatum: unrgo nversn therapy or clear out of the fay home the northern English cy of chose optn one and unrwent multiple ssns wh elrs om the fay’s Jehovah’s Wns ngregatn, seekg a ‘cure’ for homosexualy. A ernment survey showed that more than half of Brons who had tried nversn therapy were offered through a relig group, almost 12% were signposted by a health re Ozanne, a gay evangelil her 50s who chairs the UK’s Ban Conversn Therapy Coaln, sought treatment her 20s and 30s, after fallg love wh a procs led to hospal admissn for a nervo breakdown.

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

Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.

”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament. It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc.

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

Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said.

Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology.

“From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT SAYS LANDMARK LG

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry. "The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.

Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc.

FIRED FOR BEG OPENLY GAY

Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy. Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". A 6-3 vote cid that a key provisn of the Civil Rights Act, Tle VII, which bars job discrimatn bee of reasons such as genr, clus bias agast gay workers.

“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, " Jtice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the urt. "The Gay and Transgenr muny jt whooped Tmp’s ass, and Jtice Gorsuch helped! Kennedy was a voice for gay rights and the thor of the landmark lg 2015 that ma same-sex marriage legal throughout the Uned Stat.

FIRED FOR BEG GAY

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. 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.

TEACHER FIRED FOR BEG GAY GETS AN APOLOGY FOUR DES LATER

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.

CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? ANSWER PENDS LARGELY ON WHERE YOU LIVE

Bostock was fired bee he joed a gay softball league. Read that sentence but take out the word “gay.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

” 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.

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

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.

I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY, BUT NOW I'M FREE

"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.

The Supreme Court s volved two gay men and a transgenr woman who sued for employment discrimatn after they lost their jobs. The feral appeals urt  New York led favor of a gay skydivg stctor who claimed he was fired bee of his sexual orientatn. He tried to put a woman wh whom he was jumpg at ease by explag that he was gay.

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

In a se om Geia, the feral appeals urt  Atlanta led agast Gerald Bostock, a gay employee of Clayton County, the Atlanta suburbs.

£50,000 PAYOUT FOR GAY MAN FIRED BY RAF

Bostock claimed he was fired 2013 bee he is gay. Circu Court of Appeals dismissed Bostock's claim a three-page opn that noted the urt was bound by a 1979 cisn that held "discharge for homosexualy is not prohibed by Tle VII.

Campaigners agast the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy, which bans openly gay people om servg the US armed forc, were offered hope when Harry Reid, the Senate majory lear, said he would schle a vote on next week.

Their mpaign was given add impet when Lady Gaga turned up at Sunday's MTV mic awards wh four former service members who had been discharged unr the law, and, an terview on Monday, asked her fans to tweet Reid about the the law was brought by Print Clton 1993, was a promise, replacg a total ban on gay people the ary. And even if DADT is scrapped, seems unlikely that those who have been discharged will be Rhonda Davis served the US navy for 11 years before her honty about beg gay lost her her job.