Michigan-based companies Dow Chemical Co., Kellogg Co. and Whirlpool Corp. are among the more than 100 businesses that are supporting the federal Equality Act, the Human Rights Campaign announced Monday morning at the Detroit Regional Chamber.
Though France and the Netherlands rejected right-wing candidates in their elections earlier this year, an anti-immigrant party made major headway in the German election Sunday ― with a lesbian leading the party. As the top candidate for Alternative Fuer Deutschland, Alice Weidel helped her far-right party capture 12.6 percent of the vote and become the nation’s third-largest parliamentary party.
President Trump’s nominees for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during recent congressional testimony — described by one Democratic senator as “wishy-washy” — signaled they may reverse the agency’s position that current federal law against sex discrimination applies to LGBT people.
The public is invited to view a documentary highlighting the challenges older LGBT people face. The Western Connecticut Area Agency on Aging, AARP CT and Gay Heritage will sponsor the free luncheon, panel discussion and film showing at noon Wednesday at the Heritage Village Activities Building.
GAY marriage opponents have spent twice as much as the ‘Yes’ campaign on television advertising despite claiming they would be fighting a “David versus Goliath battle”. The estimates come as reports emerged of ‘Vote No’ graffiti and swastikas being scrawled across public transport in New South Wales, and rocks being thrown at houses flying rainbow flags.
The Trump administration on Tuesday will urge a U.S. appeals court in Manhattan to rule that federal law does not ban discrimination against gay employees. The U.S. Department of Justice is supporting a New York skydiving company, Altitude Express Inc, in a lawsuit brought by former instructor Donald Zarda, who accused the company of firing him after he told a customer he was gay and she complained.
Openly gay Olympian Sunette Viljoen talks candidly about her success in sports and the total rejection she has faced from her family in South Africa in a powerful new interview with Swedish public television SVT. Viljoen won a silver medal in javelin at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.
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