All posts tagged "sexual orientation"
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Lesbian security guard’s lawsuit could be headed to Supreme Court
Jameka Evans' lawyers argue her employer violated her rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
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HHS restores sexual orientation question to elder Americans survey
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has restored a question on sexual orientation that was eliminated from a federal survey on elderly Americans...
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Prince William County School Board passes LGBTQ protections
On Wednesday, the Prince William County School Board narrowly passed a nondiscrimination policy protecting LGBTQ students, employees, and staff from bullying, harassment or mistreatment based...
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Commerce Department slammed for excluding LGBTQ protections from Equal Employment policy
The U.S. Department of Commerce has come under fire for excluding explicit nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ employees in the department’s Equal Employment Policy. On Thursday, Commerce...
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Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission seeks public comment on LGBTQ protections
The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission has finished seeking public input on proposed guidance that sets forth legal protections for people who are discriminated against because of their...
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Kentucky lesbian sues employer for sexual orientation discrimination
A Kentucky woman is suing her former employer for discriminating against her and eventually firing her after 15 years on the job because of her...
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U.S. senators ask Price to restore LGBTQ questions on HHS surveys
A bipartisan group of senators has sent a letter calling on Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price to restore LGBTQ-related questions that were...
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Congressional Democrats introduce measure to ban conversion therapy
Congressional Democrats have introduced a bill that would effectively ban conversion therapy by classifying it as a form of consumer fraud. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu...
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Nevada Senate passes two pro-LGBTQ bills by wide margins
On Tuesday, the Nevada State Senate passed a pair of bills intended to benefit LGBTQ-identifying children, sending them both on to the State Assembly for...
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Trump rescinds Obama executive order on labor discrimination
On Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order allowing companies that do business with the federal government to avoid disclosing past instances of discrimination...
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Advocates fear erasure of LGBTQ seniors from national elder survey
The Trump administration has proposed changes to an annual national survey of elderly people that would eliminate questions asking about respondents’ sexual orientation and gender...
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City officials: Bias-related crimes in D.C. are up from 2015
A majority of bias-related crimes in D.C. target members of the LGBTQ community, according to city officials. Crimes targeting victims because of their gender identity...
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Toledo City Council bans conversion therapy
On Tuesday, the Toledo City Council unanimously approved a ban on conversion therapy and made gender identity a protected class under the city’s nondiscrimination laws....
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Utah students sue over law prohibiting LGBT references in schools
Lawyers for two public school students argue that the law violates the Constitution
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Scott Lively: Trump should pursue “separation of LGBT and state”
Scott Lively, the anti-LGBT pastor currently being sued in federal court for his involvement in promoting anti-LGBT laws in Uganda, including the country’s “Kill the Gays”...
