29 Stat Can Fire You For Beg Gay. Is Your State One Of Them? - Upworthy

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• SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
• 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
• TEACHER SPEND FOR BEG GAY: HOW THIS IS LEGAL 28 STAT
• CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? HOW TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT
• THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• SAME SEX MARRIAGE AND GAY RIGHTS
• TEACHER: I WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY. NOW IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE
• HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS
• CAN AN EMPLOYEE BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR?
• RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLERIC LUTZ
• A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
• AFTER PENALIZG GAY TEACHER, MANSFIELD ISD AWARDS HER $100,000, PLANS VOTE TO BAN SEXUAL ORIENTATN DISCRIMATN
• CRICS OF TEXAS’ PH FOR A “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL SAY ACKNOWLEDGG LGBTQ PEOPLE ISN’T THE SAME AS TEACHG KIDS ABOUT SEX
• WILL I GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY TEXAS? IS THERE A STATE LAW PROTECTG LGBT?

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

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.

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

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

TEACHER SPEND FOR BEG GAY: HOW THIS IS LEGAL 28 STAT

"I thk the first rponse is the bt, bee reveals discrimatn – that Don Zarda said he was gay. A San Anton state senator says Texans n be nied a job or fired simply for beg gay.

Supportg the measur, which the Cy Council is expected to nsir Augt, the Democrat said of a fellow San Anton rint, an Iraq veteran: "Here his home state and his home cy, he n be nied or fired om a job jt bee he is gay. But that don’t necsarily mean that " 29 stat this untry you n still get fired for … beg gay, " as Marta Navratilova claimed a May 2013 terview. Fired for beg gay: How ’s legal 28 stat Stacy Bailey is an elementary school teacher Texas who is sug the school district for discrimatn after she was spend for discsg her sexual orientatn.

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

She is sug the Mansfield Inpennt School District (MISD) for spendg her for discsg her sexual orientatn her 31-year-old art teacher liv one of 28 stat where ’s legal to spend or fire someone bee of his or her sexual ART TEACHER SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF PROMOTING 'HOMOSEXUAL' school district released a statement sayg they are and have always been “an clive, supportive environment for LGBT staff for s. This, they argued, is a form of discrimatn based on 7th Circu ed this sexual stereotypg theory to argue homosexuals nnot be punished by an employer bee they don’t behave the way they “should, ” that is they don’t have romantic relatnships wh people of the oppose regard to Bailey’s se, a siar argument n be ma her fense, Mayerson said.

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

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.

SAME SEX MARRIAGE AND GAY RIGHTS

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.

In other stat, while some s of discrimatn are helped, the gay muny is still phed unrneath a veil.

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

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.

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

In some stat, you n’t get fired for beg gay – but others, there is nothg stoppg your boss om dog so. 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 AN EMPLOYEE BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR?

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.

While preparg for a jump, Don told a female ctomer that he was gay an effort to make her more fortable wh how close they were physilly.

RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLERIC LUTZ

The third se was brought by Gerald Bostock, who was fired om his job as a social worker for at-risk youth after his employer learned he was gay.

All three workers sued, assertg that was sex discrimatn to fire them for beg gay or transgenr.

A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL

The Supreme Court agreed, holdg that “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. To the Future Print of the Uned Stat, A lot of progrs has been ma the LGBT+ muny the past two years, like wh the legalizatn of same sex marriage all 50 stat, but is crazy to thk that the same stat you n be fired jt bee you're gay. I'm a firm believer that you n't be mad at a person for somethg they know nothg about, and I feel like a lot of people don't unrstand that you don't jt wake up one day and say to yourself, "I'm gog to be gay!

A person isn't gog to see a gay uple and change their sexual orientatn right then and there, don't work that way. I n only image how annoyg and downright sad is for people who are gay and employed one of the stat, that have to be reful hidg who they are as to not get fired.

AFTER PENALIZG GAY TEACHER, MANSFIELD ISD AWARDS HER $100,000, PLANS VOTE TO BAN SEXUAL ORIENTATN DISCRIMATN

In Missouri, a man named Jam Ptman was ntuoly harassed, and then 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.

CRICS OF TEXAS’ PH FOR A “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL SAY ACKNOWLEDGG LGBTQ PEOPLE ISN’T THE SAME AS TEACHG KIDS ABOUT SEX

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.

WILL I GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY TEXAS? IS THERE A STATE LAW PROTECTG LGBT?

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.

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.