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Mart Jenks, 66, who will bee the first openly gay California Supreme Court jtice, said he began g out the past five years.

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FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE NFIRMED TO SERVE ON THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT

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Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. Gav Newsom, won unanimo nfirmatn Tuday to the California Supreme Court, beg s first openly gay member and the fifth Black jtice the urt’s history. He said a prev terview that he began g out as gay about five years the hearg, retired Court of Appeal Jtice William R.

Mart Jenks was unanimoly nfirmed today to the California Supreme Court, makg him the first openly gay jtice on the state’s hight urt.

In 2018, the appeals urt, a 3-0 lg, cleared the way for disciplary actn agast San Francis officers who sent racist, sexist, and homophobic text msag.

NEWSOM’S SUPREME COURT PICK NFIRMED AS STATE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE

Mart Jenks, Gov. Gav Newsom's pick for the state's hight urt, be the first openly gay jtice and the fifth Black member to serve on the urt. * gay justice *

As Gaymg Mag pots out, the all-queer Jtice League -- christened the JLQ -- is troduced the all-new ic DC Pri #1, the short story "Love Life" wrten by Andrew Wheeler, wh art by Luciano Vecch and Rex Lok. Five years after the US Supreme Court clared a fundamental right for same-sex upl to marry, the jtic produced another landmark for the gay rights movement by lg that feral anti-bias law vers lns of gay, lbian and transgenr workers. The lg jos the annals of high urt cisns over the last quarter century that have helped drive gay progrs on myriad onts, cludg the 2003 cisn strikg down statut that crimalized sodomy and a 2013 actn that validated a feral law that nied married same-sex upl the Social Secury and other benefs given oppose-sex married upl.

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

Gov. Gav Newsom lled retired Jtice Mart Jenks "a cent man" who would be the urt's first openly gay jtice. * gay justice *

Equally signifint, the cisn was joed by Chief Jtice John Roberts, who had never signed an opn endorsg gay rights. Gorsuch said the “msage” of the law is “simple and momento: An dividual’s homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns. That’s bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex.

More than 7 ln people the US intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to the Williams Instute at UCLA. In his 15 years as chief jtice, Roberts’ dissent the 2015 gay marriage se marked his first and only oral dissent om the bench. Jtice Brett Kavangh, dissentg, tried to emphasize that he was not agast gay rights and noted the historic nature of the cisn.

“This Court has prevly stated, and I fully agree, that gay and lbian Amerins ‘nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth. The Tmp admistratn had argued agast Monday’s oute, and the lg may have seemed improbable after the 2018 retirement of Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who had been the thor of all gay rights opns datg to 1996 and was often the cidg vote on a bench riven on the cultural dilemma. They were brought on behalf of two gay men fired om their jobs, as a skydivg stctor and a child welfare servic ordator, and on behalf of a transgenr woman who lost her posn as a funeral home director.

CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT'S 1ST GAY JTICE LEFT THE NFL TO PURSUE A LAW REER

Five years after the US Supreme Court clared a fundamental right for same-sex upl to marry, the jtic produced another landmark for the gay rights movement by lg that feral anti-bias law vers lns of gay, lbian and transgenr workers. * gay justice *

He acknowledged that Congrs likely would not have anticipated Monday’s rult when passed the law 1964, but he said the prohibn on discrimatn “bee of sex” necsarily vers people who face bias bee of they are gay, lbian or transgenr. We do not hate to regnize today a necsary nsequence of that legislative choice: An employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr fi the law.

The negotiatns those s, not prevly reported, offer a glimpse to tra-offs among jtic, monstrate the chief’s soft power of persuasn and show that the urt’s sentiment on gay rights issu n be both ght and evolvg. Meanwhile, Kennedy would vote for the urt to hear the appeal of the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Colorado, who’d been sanctned for refg to bake a weddg ke for two gay men.

The acceptance of an appeal om a baker who had refed to create a ke for a gay uple based on relig objectns uld easily have led to a public perceptn of new Supreme Court hostily toward gay rights. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn was brought by a baker, Jack Phillips, who had been sanctned unr Colorado law for refg to create a ke for two gay men celebratg their marriage. Phillips argued that beg forced to provi a weddg ke to a gay uple vlated his nstutnal rights to the ee exercise of relign and ee speech.

GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS

The Supreme Court says the feral ban on discrimatn "based on sex" appli to gay, lbian and transgenr employe. * gay justice *

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy wrote, reflectg his ntued tentativens. Gsburg and Sotomayor were the only dissenters, homg on the bias the gay men faced: “What matters, ” Gsburg wrote, “is that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual uple.

Jenks ma history as the first openly gay jtice and third Black man to serve on the state’s hight an terview wh the LGBTQ magaze Advote, Jenks lled the distctn “an tertg notn. In an terview wh, Jenks, now his late 60s, said that acceptg himself as gay was “bar none” his greatt challenge.

CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL

The Supreme Court says you n’t be fired for beg gay or transgenr. * gay justice *

It is a watershed moment om an unlikely thor that means gay, lbian and transgenr workers are protected by feral civil rights law.

While “policy arguments” to amend the law “are very weighty, Kavangh wrote, and while he agreed that “gay and lbian Amerins nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth” he uld not si wh Gorsuch’s terpretatn. Supreme Court led Monday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay, lbian, and transgenr employe om discrimatn based on sex. One of them, Gerald Bostock, won awards for his work as a child welfare ordator for Clayton County, Ga, but said he was fired after he joed a gay recreatnal softball league.

But he add that worri about how the 1964 civil rights law "will tersect wh relig liberty are nothg new, " potg to the 1993 Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act as a "super statute" that may offer a potential lifele to employers who object, on relig grounds, to hirg gay and trans dividuals. "We didn't see really anybody other than the Conference of Catholic Bishops e and make an argument that there are large numbers of employers who refe as a blanket matter to hire people who are lbian, who are gay or bisexual or who are transgenr, " said Karlan, who argued one of the Tle VII s before the Supreme Court October. He noted that the liberal Supreme Court of the 1960s, head by Chief Jtice Earl Warren, terpreted an immigratn statute that barred psychopaths om enterg the untry to apply to homosexuals.

EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS

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The data is clear: lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ 1) people are overreprented at every stage of crimal jtice system, startg wh juvenile jtice system volvement. (Namely, we provi the only natnal timat for lbian, gay, or bisexual arrt rat and muny supervisn rat that we know of. Rearchers timate that 20% of youth the juvenile jtice system are lbian, gay, bisexual, qutng, genr nonnformg, or transgenr pared wh 4-6% of youth the general populatn.

Our analysis of data om the Natnal Survey on Dg Use and Health (NSDUH) reveals that 2019, gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals (wh an arrt rate of 3, 620 per 100, 000) were 2.

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The jtic nsired whether a cy may exclu a Catholic social servic agency om s foster re system bee ref to work wh gay upl. * gay justice *

Rearchers analyzg the most recent Natnal Inmate Survey found that LGB people are rcerated at a rate over three tim that of the total adult populatn: 1, 882 per 100, 000 lbian, gay, and bisexual people are rcerated, pared wh 612 per 100, 000 U. The high rat of gay, lbian, and bisexual people behd bars n part be attributed to the longer sentenc urts impose on them.

Our analysis of the NSDUH data reveals that people on probatn and parole are almost twice as likely to be lbian, gay, or bisexual than people not on probatn and parole – and aga, lbian and bisexual women are pecially overreprented:. Acrdg to the Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force’s Injtice at Every Turn: A Report of the Natnal Transgenr Discrimatn Survey, nearly half of trans people reported that they do not feel fortable seekg help om police.

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