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WV: Coal Miner Urges Lawmakers to Pass Gay Protections Bill

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Sam HallSam Hall is urging West Virginia lawmakers to approve a measure that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Hall is the gay coal miner who is suing Massey Energy subsidiary Spartan Mining alleging widespread discrimination. In the suit, Hall claims he was subjected to verbal abuse and lewd gestures by his supervisors and other miners. The abuse dates back as far as 2003. In 2007, Hall’s December filing claims, co-workers attached a sign that read “I like little boys” to his car.

Hall, 28, will appear at a morning press conference organized by the gay rights group Fairness West Virginia outside the Senate chamber.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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TN: Republican Files Bill to Block Local Non-Discrimination Ordinances

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Conservative state Rep. Glen Casada kept his promise and filed a bill Monday that would bar local governments from enacting their own nondiscrimination policies. Instead, Tennessee’s municipalities would have to rely on state policy, which mirrors the federal Civil Rights Act and does not include protections on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. (HB 331)

Casada vowed to bring the bill, which is sure to please his fellow big-government types, after Metro Council members Erica Gilmore, Jamie Hollin and Mike Jameson filed legislation last month that would require city government contractors to abide by Metro’s nondiscrimination policy, which includes GLBT protections but only extends to city workers.

From Woods’ story at the CP:

“It’s up to the local business to decide what they will and will not do,” Casada, R-College Grove, told The City Paper in January of his bill, which then was in the drafting stage. “The local government won’t be able to implement their morality on our local businesses.”

Full Story from The Nashville Scene

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MT: State Legislature May Try to Dismantle Missoula Anti Discrimination Ordinance

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Supporters of Missoula’s anti-discrimination ordinance are bracing for a possible attack from the Montana Legislature. A bill – still being drafted – could nullify the local law that protects people from being fired from jobs or kicked out of homes because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Missoula City Council members Stacy Rye and Dave Strohmaier said many people are watching to see if the draft emerges, and if it does, they stand ready to defend local control and fend off infringements on the ordinance.

“At that point, they should look for a fight on their hands,” Strohmaier said Thursday. Said Rye: “We spent a lot of time on that in Missoula. A lot of people in Missoula love that ordinance.”

Full Story from The Missoulan

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TX: Legislators to Consider Anti Work Discrimination Ordinance

Friday, January 14th, 2011

Texas employers would no longer be able to discriminate against employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity, according to a bill filed by state Rep. Mike Villarreal (D-San Antonio). No federal law is in place to protect gay and transgender employees, though as of July 2009, 21 states have nondiscrimination laws, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

“In effect any employer in Texas who learns about an employee’s sexual orientation can basically say, ‘Pack your bags. You’re out of here.’ Just on that fact. And there’s no recourse for that employee,” said former state legislator and gay rights activist Glen Maxey.

Maxey, who founded the LGBT rights group now known as Equality Texas, did not think Villarreal’s bill has much of a chance of becoming law, even though many major private companies already have anti-discrimination policies in place for gay and transgender employees.

Full Story from the American Independent

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Australia: AG Drafting Anti Relationship Discrimination Bill; First Step Toward Marriage Equality?

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Australia Gay MarriageTHE federal Attorney-General’s Department is in the early stages of drafting broad anti-discrimination legislation. This legislation would make it illegal to discriminate on gender or sexuality grounds and includes a policy suggestion that is a step towards legalising gay marriage.

In its secret Red Book to the incoming Gillard government, the department proposed prohibiting marital and relationship status discrimination “in consolidated bill to include same-sex couples”. The Attorney-General’s Red Book says that while commonwealth law prohibits sexuality discrimination in employment, it does not prohibit gender status discrimination.

“This policy commits to including new protections against sexuality or gender status discrimination in the consolidation of commonwealth anti-discrimination laws, which is currently under way,” it says. A spokesman for Attorney-General Robert McClelland was quick to clarify that the Gillard government remains opposed to gay marriage, and has not changed its position.

Full Story from The Australian

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Philippines: Lawmaker Calls for Gay Anti-Discrimination Law

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

PhilippinesHOMOPHOBIA has put the lesbian and gay rights in the Philippines in the backseat, a lawmaker said Saturday. Rep. Kaka Bag-ao of Akbayan party-list, the principal author of House Bill 515, or the Act prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and providing penalties, noted that such homophobia is stirred by the fact that the country has no standing policy on human rights abuses against lesbians, gays bisexual and transgenders (LGBT).

“Here in the Philippines, you can fire a gay or lesbian employee simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and get away with it. You can expel lesbian and gay students arbitrarily or impose arbitrary rules against them and you won’t face any charges. It’s wrong,” Bag-ao said.

Without any enabling law, Bag-ao noted that the constitutional rights and freedoms of LGBTs can be easily violated and discrimination against LGBTs goes unpunished.

Full Story from The Manila Times

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KS: Manhattan Proposes Anti Gay Discrimination Policy

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

In the Little Apple, Manhattan Lawmakers are considering adopting the most sweeping anti-gay discrimination policy in the state of Kansas. The legislation has infuriated religious leaders, who held a rally Wednesday opposing the measure.

City leaders in Manhattan want everyone to know gays are welcome in their city. A new anti-discrimination policy is nearing passage that would make it a crime to deny anyone housing or a job because of their sexual orientation.

“We want to send a statement that all people are welcome and we’re not going to judge you based on who you are or who you’re attracted to,” said Josh McGinn with the Flint Hills Human Rights Project.

Full Story from KSN

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OH: Bowling Green Vote Mirrors Larger Fight

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

Bowling Green, OhioThirty years ago, a vote like the one just decided in this university town wouldn’t have happened; gay-rights activism hadn’t taken root across most of America. Thirty years hence, such votes may seem a historical curiosity in a time of equality for gays.

Right now, though, the gay rights movement is at a tipping point, as epitomized by Bowling Green’s divisive referendum on extending anti-discrimination protections to gays. The vote was so close that it took three extra weeks to determine whether the two measures passed.

Nationally, gay-rights supporters and their conservative opponents are trading victories and setbacks, and the public is deeply divided on same-sex marriage. Could the push for full equality be stalled or reversed? Probably not, if public opinion evolves at its current pace.

Full Story from The Sandusky Register

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OH: Bowling Green Voters Narrowly Approve Gay Rights Measures

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Bowling Green, OHLast year the city council of the college town of Bowling Green, Ohio instituted broad ordinances protecting LGBT residents from discrimination. Anti-gay Christian groups immediately forced the suspension of the new laws and had them placed on this year’s ballot.

The votes are finally in and it was close. Via press release from the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force:

With the final vote now officially tallied, voters in Bowling Green, Ohio, have passed two ordinances protecting people from discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations and public education based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.

Full Story from Joe.My.God

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UT: Two More Cities Pass Anti-Discrimination Measures

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Utah Anti DiscriminationTwo more Utah cities are adopting ordinances to protect gay and transgender people from discrimination. The city councils in Murray and Moab voted unanimously Tuesday to ban housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Equality Utah Executive Director Brandie Balken tells The Salt Lake Tribune that the measures reflect the values of Utah residents.

There are now nine Utah cities and counties with such ordinances.

Full Story from NECN

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