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FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE NFIRMED TO SERVE ON THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT
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GAY RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
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FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE NFIRMED TO SERVE ON THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT

People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * gay justice *

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

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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.

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.

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 *

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.

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 *

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. 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.

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 *

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. “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.

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 *

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.

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

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

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. 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.