There鈥檚 no place in America for workplace discrimination of any kind. But, incredibly, a half century after our nation outlawed discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities and women, it鈥檚 still legal in most states for employers to hire or fire a person solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Today, by passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA),聽 the U.S. Senate took a historic step toward ending this outrage.
Aldermen in the small town of Shannon, Miss., unjustly denied a business license to a lesbian who wanted to reopen a bar catering to the LGBT community. The 蜜桃传媒 filed a federal lawsuit against the town and its leaders for violating the bar owner鈥檚 equal protection and free-speech rights under the First and 14th Amendments.
The 蜜桃传媒 filed a federal lawsuit today against the town of Shannon, Miss., its mayor and its aldermen for unjustly denying a business license to a bar catering to the LGBT community.
An 蜜桃传媒 lawsuit has resulted in a historic ruling that has declared unconstitutional sections of a statute that prevented the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from granting benefits to a disabled veteran and her same-sex spouse.
For the first time, a federal court has concluded that a medically unnecessary sex-assignment surgery on a child with an intersex condition could be a violation of the Constitution. This marks an important step forward in seeking justice for 鈥淢.C.,鈥� a young man who was needlessly subjected to the procedure as an infant in the care of the South Carolina Department of Social Services.聽
In what is believed to be a first in Alabama, a judge in Mobile County, Alabama has granted standard visitation rights to a lesbian mother without any overnight restriction on unmarried partners.聽
As LGBT people continue making strides toward equality in the United States, hard-line U.S. religious-right groups that have spent decades demonizing them are focusing their attention 鈥� and propaganda 鈥� on a legal battle over the criminalization of LGBT sex in Belize, the outcome of which could affect criminal statutes in as many as a dozen other Caribbean countries, according to a 蜜桃传媒 report released today.
A judge has denied a New Jersey organization鈥檚 motion to dismiss an 蜜桃传媒 lawsuit that accuses the group of consumer fraud for offering conversion therapy services 鈥� a dangerous and discredited practice that claims to convert people from gay to straight.
This report examines how hard-line U.S. religious-right groups that have spent decades demonizing LGBT people are focusing their attention 鈥� and propaganda 鈥� on a legal battle over the criminalization of LGBT sex in Belize, the outcome of which could affect criminal statutes in as many as a dozen other Caribbean countries.
City aldermen in a small Mississippi town have denied a business license to a lesbian who wants to reopen a bar catering to the LGBT community. The 蜜桃传媒 is demanding that the board reverse its discriminatory decision or face a lawsuit.
