'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
• WHAT IS THE GREEN VIEW ON GAY RIGHTS?
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• MOSW RT POLICE VLENTLY BREAK UP GAY PRI RALLY

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

The Greene-Newman cint has revived a thorny issue for the GOP, which has wrtled over s stance on gay marriage and battled accatns that ’s not clive or protective of LGBTQ rights. “When you tell people that a majory of stat this untry, you n eher be kicked out of your apartment, fired om your job, or nied service a rtrant bee you’re gay or the LGBTQ muny, people thk that n’t be te, ” Rep. the barriers of racism, sexism, homophobia, class opprsn, ageism, and transphobia, and the many ways our culture separat om workg together.

WHAT IS THE GREEN VIEW ON GAY RIGHTS?

Equaly by sexual orientatn, cludg gay marriage. We support the rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenred people hog, jobs, civil marriage and benefs, child ctody - and all areas of life, the right to be treated equally wh all other people. It was the send time the Democratic-led Hoe had passed the measure, known as the Equaly Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add explic bans on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people both public and private spac.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

People n be discrimated agast bee of who they are, or who they love, ” said Reprentative David Cicille, an openly gay Democrat om Rho Island and the lead sponsor.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Several Republins assailed the Equaly Act as dangero, leadg one top Democrat, Reprentative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to acce them of believg that gay and transgenr people “are morally ferr, and that firg should be permted.

Maloney, the openly gay chairman of Hoe Democrats’ mpaign arm.

MOSW RT POLICE VLENTLY BREAK UP GAY PRI RALLY

”In a landmark cisn June, the Supreme Court led that the 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn, and that the language of the law, which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex, also appli to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. Chamber of Gay Stolberg ntributed reportg. But gay and trans rights are no longer the wedge issue they were the early ghts.

Although s state ernment is ntrolled by Republins at every level, Utah has some of the strongt protectns for gay and trans people the natn. I worked on the mpaign to pass , and found that Republins were far more open to gay rights if a bill simply rpected the protectns, and Democrats were able to get behd as well.