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AZ, USA: Phoenix Mayor Working on Anti Gay Discrimination Ordinance

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton’s aides and a group of attorneys are working to draft ordinances that could outlaw discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.

The aides and attorneys believe that if rewritten, city laws would also give victims of such discrimination in restaurants and other businesses an opportunity to file complaints with the city’s Equal Opportunity Department for investigation — an option they currently do not have.

The effort comes as the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel near Van Buren and Third streets tries to recover from threats of boycott by the gay community over a decision by the manager of the hotel’s District American Kitchen & Wine Bar to expel a lesbian couple in late February.

Full Story from AZ Central

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NE: Omaha Passes Non Discrimination Ordinance

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Today, after weeks of debate, the Omaha City Council passed an ordinance that will protect LGBT individuals from discrimination in employment and public accommodations with a 4-3 vote.

Mayor Jim Suttle has promised to sign the changes into law. A poll found last year that 90 percent of U.S. voters believe that such employment protections already exist at the federal level, but as GLAAD points out in a new Delta Sky Magazine ad, individuals can be fired for their sexual orientation in 29 states and gender identity in 34 states.

Full Story from Think Progress

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MT: Anti Gay Ordinance Passes House Committee

Monday, February 21st, 2011

The Republican majority on the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Monday that would effectively overturn Missoula’s 2010 ordinance banning discrimination against city residents based on their sexual orientation and gender.

House Bill 516, by Rep. Kristin Hansen, R-Havre, now moves to the House floor for debate this week.

It would prohibit local governments from enacting ordinances or policies seek to protect residents from real or perceived discrimination based on their sexual orientation and gender as the cities of Missoula did through an ordinance and Bozeman did through a policy.

Full Story from The Billings Gazette

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AZ: Flagstaff City Council Considering Gay Rights Ordinance Again

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

Could the gay civil rights ordinance proposed but not adopted two years ago be resurrected this year? It is possible.

Activists unsatisfied with the previous council’s decision to adopt a resolution of inclusion that carries no force of law have asked the council to reconsider the ordinance.

The 2009 proposal would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of personal characteristics that are protected in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodations and education.

Full Story from the AZ Daily Sun

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FL: Volusia County to Consider Gay Rights Ordinance

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

There is no federal, state, or Volusia County law that specifically prohibits a company from firing an employee because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. But that could change soon.

The Volusia County Council plans to schedule a discussion, probably for one of its March meetings, of a human-rights ordinance similar to one enacted in Orange County in November. That law bars discrimination – in both the public and private sectors – based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and gives victims of such discrimination a legal method of recourse.

No federal or state law protects gays, lesbians or transgender people from discrimination, according to the American Civil Liberties Union and a Florida gay rights advocacy group. But many Florida cities and counties have enacted laws similar to the Orange County ordinance.

Full Story from the Daytona Beach News-Journal

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UT: Ogden Gay Rights Ordinance Ready for Review in Three Weeks

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

City Attorney Gary Williams has received the green light to begin drafting a municipal ordinance prohibiting housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Language for the ordinance was a topic of discussion during a 90-minute meeting Friday involving the administration, city council leaders and Equality Utah, a Salt Lake City organization that aims to secure equal rights and protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Utahns and their families.

Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah, said she was pleased with the meeting and expects draft language of the ordinance to be ready for city council review within three weeks.

Full Story from the Standard-Examiner

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UT: Ogden Considers Gay Rights Ordinance

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Gay advocates in Ogden plan to press the city’s mayor for a new local ordinance to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah, told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden that she’s hoping to make progress on legal issues during the Jan. 7 meeting. Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey declined to comment on the issues to the newspaper.

Balken says she plans to press for an ordinance rather than a resolution because she wants any new law to have teeth.

Full Story from NECN

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KS: Manhattan Narrowly Approves Gay Rights Ordinance

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

With the backing of Kansas State University, the city commission of the small town of Manhattan, Kansas, known locally as the “Little Apple,” has narrowly approved a sweeping LGBT rights ordinance by a vote of 3-2. The vote was hotly followed across major anti-gay websites as a possible harbinger of the continued march for equality out of the big cities and into the heartland.

The American Family Association laments:

“In Manhattan, Kansas, city commissioners have passed a controversial ‘anti-discrimination’ ordinance creating a special protected class for the sexually confused. The move has many Christian leaders dismayed at the direction of their rural Kansas town. Kansas Family Policy Council director Donna Lippoldt attended the meeting. She shares her reaction to the vote. ‘I don’t think that the rest of the people in the state have any idea that they’re sending their children to a university that has [endorsed] the gay agenda — and [that] they just want more and more people to come who have this lifestyle,’ laments the family advocate. ‘It was very, very disappointing.’”

Full Story from Joe.My.God

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FL: Jacksonville May Consider Anti Discrimination Ordinance

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Jacksonville gay rights activists are meeting with business leaders to get their support for a measure that would ban discrimination based on sexual preference. Jacksonville is the state’s only major metropolitan area that doesn’t ban discrimination against gay people.

The city’s current ordinance prohibits discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations on the basis of race, religion, disability, sex, marital status, national origin, color and age. Proponents say the measure would help the local economy.

If the measure goes before Jacksonville’s commission, opposition would be expected from religious groups and social conservatives. They would see the change as an affront to traditional moral values.

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Full Story from the Miami Herald

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OH: Campaign to Keep Bowling Green’s LGBT Ordinances Ahead

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

The campaign to preserve Bowling Green’s LGBT-inclusive equality ordinances appears to be winning, but the contest will be close, and additional resources are needed. How the measures stand with voters won’t be known until Election Day, said campaign director Kim Welter. “There has been no poll, and that’s been because we cannot afford one.”

Welter then explained that, based on the conversations that campaign volunteers are having with voters as they canvass, the ordinances are winning in three of the city’s four wards, and losing slightly in the most conservative one.

The two measures, passed in August 2009, were challenged by a petition campaign that put them on the November 2 ballot. They are the only LGBT issues on any U.S. ballot in this election, so the campaign has drawn attention on both sides.

Full Story from the Gay People’s Chronicle

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