This week, Virginia’s Democratic-lead legislature passed the Virginia Values Act, a law that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the state’s pre-existing civil rights protections banning discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. The state’s House and Senate must…
Amazon, Nike, American Airlines and dozens of other companies have taken a stand for LGBTQ rights in Tennessee. They are among the nearly 150 companies that signed a letter opposing Tennessee’s anti-LGBTQ laws. The collective, known as the Tennessee Businesses Against Discrimination…
Nearly four decades after its premiere, NBC’s “Cheers” is regarded as a comedy juggernaut that helped launch the careers of Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley and Woody Harrelson, among other stars. Given such a sterling legacy, it’s easy to forget that…
A video has surfaced from 2016 of Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg saying most people wouldn’t favor equal rights for transgender people because they don’t want “some man wearing a dress … in the locker room with their daughter.”…
Men and women who “sound” gay are viewed as less competent and less suitable for jobs, a recent study has found. The study, which was published in Psychology of Women Quarterly in December 2019, found that gay men and lesbians face…
When the government releases its monthly jobs report on Friday, a history-making methodology change will be lurking in the footnotes. For the first time ever, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will include same-sex couples in its count of married workers in the…
For gay rights campaigner Jean-Pierre Sigrist, the new law being voted on in a referendum in Switzerland on Sunday might have stopped him getting beaten up four decades ago. “And maybe I would not have been laughed at when I…
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