Ultimately, that's why Oregon punished a business for anti-gay discrimination.
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The law doesn't explicitly ban anti-gay discrimination, instead banning discrimination based on sex.
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One possibility is that it's a function of increased LGBT acceptance and less anti-gay discrimination.
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Currently, most states and the federal government do not explicitly prohibit anti-gay discrimination in the workplace.
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And it's why anti-gay discrimination is legal in Missouri even if the constitutional amendment doesn't pass.
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It is well time for the Boy Scouts to finally acknowledge that all anti-gay discrimination is wrong.
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LGBTQ activists, however, have long argued that the ban on sex discrimination should cover anti-gay discrimination as well.
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It's the first time the 1964 civil rights law has been applied to anti-gay discrimination in the workplace.
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In reaching its decision Monday, the court pointed out that anti-gay discrimination would not exist "but for" a person's sex.
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And Republican support for "religious freedom" often amounts to anti-gay discrimination or calling for the display of Christian symbols on government property.
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In July, Attorney General Jeff Sessions introduced a "religious liberty task force" that critics saw as a mere cover for anti-gay discrimination.
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Today the Boy Scouts of America has another opportunity to do the right thing, and prohibit all anti-gay discrimination within its organization.
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But Masterpiece's majority put religious objectors on notice that the relief they seek had better not look, sound or smell like anti-gay discrimination.
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That decision was apparently the first time a federal judge ruled that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 also prohibits anti-gay discrimination.
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In a landmark judgment, India's top court struck down colonial-era criminalization of homosexuality last September, though anti-gay discrimination and LGBT abuse remain widespread.
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But if the courts agree that the Civil Rights Act already bans anti-gay discrimination, they could change the national landscape once and for all.
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And by reaffirming its hostility to anti-gay discrimination (while also speaking emphatically against anti-religious animus), the court has shored up Justice Kennedy's legacy.
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With his resignation he ensured they would be answered by a future, more conservative court more likely to see anti-gay discrimination as perfectly rational.
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Sessions also sought to subvert Colorado state law that bans anti-gay discrimination, saying a Christian baker had a constitutional right to turn away gay couples.
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Uncle Paul helps him handle a bully, while Mr. McLeod takes on anti-gay discrimination by coming out in front of a classroom of sixth graders.
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At the same time, he later also called it "too facile" to suggest that all opposition to same-sex couples' marriages should be considered anti-gay discrimination.
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It would therefore be a good moment for the Boy Scouts of America to take the opportunity to end anti-gay discrimination within its organization, without exception.
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" No court date has been set, but Zawadski's attorney Beth Littrell hopes the case will "send a message that anti-gay discrimination is intolerable in a civilized society.
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On that same day, his Department of Justice also filed a legal brief at a federal appeals court arguing that anti-gay discrimination is legal under federal law.
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To the contrary, anti-gay discrimination is very much alive and well and at least partially evidenced by the fact that gay men have lower levels of employment.
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But this is more of a political project than a question of law, and the court should reject the invitation to create safe spaces for anti-gay discrimination.
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During Barr's confirmation hearing, he said anti-gay discrimination should be illegal under the law, but he said current law does, in fact, allow anti-LGBT discrimination against workers.
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The Education Department didn't answer direct questions about whether Title IX bans anti-gay discrimination and how it acts on those complaints, instead punting the issue to individual schools.
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The EEOC has contended in federal court that Title VII bans anti-gay discrimination, saying it is based on sex stereotyping, and therefore discrimination on the basis of sex.
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Expressing his concerns about anti-gay discrimination, Kennedy mentioned the possibility of a baker putting a sign in his window saying he would not make cakes for gay weddings.
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ADF contends workers have a First Amendment right to not create a "message" that endorses a same-sex wedding — even though Colorado law says anti-gay discrimination is illegal.
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In the 1990s, it was the force of Justice Kennedy's determined commitment to personal liberty and dignity that reversed the Court's previous rulings permitting anti-gay discrimination by states.
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The new wave of anti-LGBT measures is forcing many to come to terms with contrasting views: Blacks who disapprove of homosexuality who also strongly reject anti-gay discrimination.
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On Monday, a federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled that a provision of the 213 Civil Rights Act banning workplace discrimination due to sex bias also prohibits anti-gay discrimination.
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On Tuesday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed two lawsuits in federal court alleging that two companies engaged in anti-gay discrimination, in violation of federal civil rights law.
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So they're forced to fight off a constitutional amendment that certainly appears to allow anti-gay discrimination — even though it's already legal to discriminate against gay couples in the state.
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The Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which is party to the case, adds that Colorado's civil rights law serves a legitimate state interest by banning the "pervasive" problem of anti-gay discrimination.
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On Monday, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that anti-gay discrimination in the workplace is prohibited under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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That must be the thinking behind Republican efforts to push through so-called religious liberty laws and other legislation — most egregiously in North Carolina — that excuse and legitimize anti-gay discrimination.
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The move is particularly curious because the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency policing claims of bias in the workplace, has held since 2015 that Title VII bars anti-gay discrimination.
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For several years, the EEOC has declared in federal court that Title VII bans anti-gay discrimination, saying it is based on sex stereotyping, and therefore discrimination on the basis of sex.
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The ruling comes soon after another major gay-rights ruling in 2017, thereby giving momentum to the argument that anti-gay discrimination is prohibited even without a federal law that explicitly says so.
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The exact same call comes from a second Supreme Court petition filed this week – this one from an employee denied the right to sue his employer under Title VII for anti-gay discrimination.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions withdrew a policy protecting transgender workers, while he took the unusual step of jumping into a private lawsuit arguing that anti-gay discrimination was permissible in employment under federal law.
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KEY DATES IN THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT Bryant most notably spearheaded the "Save Our Children" campaign, which led Miami-area voters to overturn an ordinance banning anti-gay discrimination by a 2-to-1 margin.
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Sessions has also argued religious business owners can refuse service to gay customers, even when anti-gay discrimination is banned by state law, and Trump has attempted to ban transgender people from all military service.
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She believed the rejections were related to her sexual orientation, so she filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a lawsuit — arguing this anti-gay discrimination was illegal under federal law.
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Instead, Trump has been assailed by LGBT rights groups for rolling back protections on transgender students and signing a religious liberty executive order that gay rights groups worry could be used to sanction anti-gay discrimination.
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Yet, while Kennedy frequently supported gay rights, he did so very slowly, typically handing fairly narrow victories to victims of anti-gay discrimination, then letting these victims wait years for the next incremental step towards equality.
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" Judge Gerard Lynch led the dissenting opinion, saying Congress did not intend to ban anti-gay discrimination when the legislation was drafted, but "was intended to secure the rights of women to equal protection in employment.
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Someone steeped in religious rhetoric about the sinfulness of homosexuality will answer the question of whether anti-gay discrimination is rooted in irrationality differently than someone with progressive values who regularly interacts with gay friends and colleagues.
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In March, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that Jameka Evans, a lesbian, could not sue her employer for anti-gay discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The Trump administration took its hardest line yet to legalize anti-gay discrimination on Friday when it asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal law allows private companies to fire workers based only on their sexual orientation.
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But Human Rights Watch has described the 2013 law as a tool for anti-gay discrimination coming with a rise in violence and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and homophobic hate speech by some officials and public figures.
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As delegates debated in two marathon sessions here on Monday and Tuesday, they repeatedly rejected efforts by more moderate members of the platform committee to add language that would acknowledge or condemn anti-gay discrimination — something Mr. Trump has done himself.
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But it seems absurd to ask secular people to respect the religious right's beliefs about sex and marriage — and thus tolerate a degree of anti-gay discrimination — while the movement's leaders treat their own sexual standards as flexible and conditional.
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Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018), for example, a baker claimed that his opposition to same-sex marriage is so essential to his identity as a Christian that he should be allowed to ignore a civil rights law prohibiting anti-gay discrimination.
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The argument that the public should think of the effect on children before granting gay people basic human rights was most potently spearheaded by Anita Bryant, a Christian singer best known for her successful repeal of a 1977 Miami ordinance that barred anti-gay discrimination.
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Thus, as someone who is sympathetic both to religious conservatives and to victims of anti-gay discrimination, Kennedy tried to chart a middle course between advocates who were primarily concerned with enforcing civil rights laws and those that wanted to protect "religious liberty" at all costs.
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Add it all up and you get a negative portrait of Joe Biden — the buckraker who failed to protect a sexual harassment victim and spent the aughts boosting the Iraq War and bank deregulation after fueling mass incarceration and anti-gay discrimination in the 1980s and '90s.
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Sessions also took the unusual step of arguing at the Supreme Court that a baker in Colorado could turn away a same-sex couple who wanted a wedding cake, even though the Justice Department wasn't a party to the case and the state's law forbids businesses from anti-gay discrimination.
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The tension between those appellate rulings and the Supreme Court's decision in Hopkins has left lower courts trying to figure out how to untwist actionable gender stereotyping claims from anti-gay discrimination for which workers don't have a federal cause of action – an "elusive" dichotomy, according to 7th Circuit Judge Ilana Rovner.
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Canada's apology was preceded by a report written by the country's leading gay rights organization chronicling systemic anti-gay discrimination and accompanied by a payout of $85 million to the victims of the so-called gay purge, a policy of government-sanctioned discrimination that lasted until the 1990s and that caused thousands to lose their jobs and face prosecution.
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G.B.T. City Council will convene officially for the first time next week, and its members — three gay men, a transgender woman and a bisexual woman — have plotted their agenda: a law preventing anti-gay discrimination, a mammoth gay community center and, in lieu of Casual Fridays, Lavender Tuesdays, when municipal employees wear festive colors and hum their favorite Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand or Madonna tunes. Kidding!
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Others included Conlogue continually asking White "how things were going at home" and the coach telling the team to congratulate White for passing a class when she'd gotten an A. Their lawyers thought it would be too messy for the jury to consider arguments about sex discrimination — already complicated by the mandate to prove that anti-gay discrimination is a form of sex discrimination — as well as racial discrimination.
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In September 2020, the Germany Government issued a formal apology for past anti- gay discrimination in the military.
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Discrimination based on sexual orientation has been prohibited since 1977; with that change, Quebec became the first jurisdiction larger than a city or county to prohibit anti-gay discrimination. In 2016, gender identity or expression was added to the Quebec Charter.
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In the book, Zaher talks about growing up gay in Afghanistan, and how he eventually had to leave his country to avoid anti-gay discrimination. Because the memoir deals with homosexuality and is critical of homophobia, it cannot be distributed in Afghanistan itself, and Zaher's family has cut off all contact with him.
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Curley was appointed athletic director on December 30, 1993. He succeeded Jim Tarman, for whom he had served as an assistant. During his 18 years as athletic director, Penn State won 18 national championships and 64 Big Ten titles.Penn State Athletics profile Curley drew criticism for his handling of allegations of anti-gay discrimination by Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland.
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271 Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, Terrence O'Flaherty labeled the documentary "a dreadful little program... deadly for everyone it touches". Nationally, a spokesperson for the National Gay Task Force condemned the documentary for its premise of gays wanting political power for purposes of having sex in public, for ignoring lesbians and for failing to address issues of anti-gay discrimination.
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Discrimination on account of sexual orientation or gender identity is not illegal in areas such as employment, education, housing, health care, banking, transportation, government services and public accommodations. As a result, many LGBT people feel the need to remain in the closet and reports of anti-gay discrimination are quite common.Ismael Ogando. Factores de incidencia en la conducta antisocial de los jóvenes homosexuales del Centro Histórico de Santiago de los Caballeros.
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He considers this to be the reason for which he has supported increased funding for Early Head Start to help ensure that all children receive high-quality preschool educations. He argues that this has been proven to close the achievement gap and help prepare all students for success in kindergarten and elementary school. Delaney has opposed school vouchers. He has voted for enforcement against anti-gay discrimination in public schools.
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Eisenbach, p. 171–72 Zapping migrated to the West Coast as early as 1970, when a coalition of several Los Angeles groups targeted Barney's Beanery. Barney's had long displayed a wooden sign at its bar reading "FAGOTS – STAY OUT". Although there were few reports of actual anti-gay discrimination at Barney's, activists found the sign's presence galling and refused to patronize the place, even when gay gatherings were held there.
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Delaney has supported same-sex marriage. He has voted for enforcement against anti-gay discrimination in public schools. He has voted for numerous other bills that aim to curtail LGBT discrimination. He has received the top score of 100 from the Human Rights Campaign for his support of equality-related legislation, In noting this recognition, Delaney reasserted that he believes, "No one should be discriminated against because of who they are or who they love".
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Lincoln Legion of Lesbians (LLL) was a lesbian feminist collective in Lincoln, Nebraska, that sought to destigmatize lesbianism and build lesbian community. The collective sponsored community events open exclusively to women and girls, advocating feminist separatism. The collective is notable for initiating the first attempt to outlaw anti-gay discrimination in Nebraska in 1980. A fierce local backlash to this attempt expanded into a nationwide strategy of anti- LGBT rhetoric using pseudoscientific arguments.
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Working with Frank Kameny, he developed a legal strategy that challenged directly the constitutionality of anti-gay discrimination. In Scott v. Macy, Carliner tested this strategy by representing Bruce Scott, who had been fired from a federal government job on the grounds of his having been previously arrested for unspecified "homosexual conduct". Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Scott's "homosexual conduct" was, without further specification, insufficient proof of "immoral conduct".
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Atticus Circle, named for Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, was founded in late 2004 by Anne Wynne after 11 states passed what she considered anti-gay "Discrimination Amendments". Wynne is straight and noticed the lack of organizations catering to straight allies. Since its inception, Atticus Circle has participated in campaigns in Texas around GLBT domestic partnership benefits and "Discrimination Amendments". They have advocated against "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policies and for fair family policies.
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The Military of Chile does not discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation. Chile bans all anti-gay discrimination since 2012. On August 13, 2014, The Defense Ministry ordered the creation of a new committee to monitor inclusion and tackle discrimination in the armed forces, a move hailed as a "historic" step by gay rights campaigners. Marcos Robledo, defense undersecretary, announced the formation of a Diversity and Anti-Discrimination Committee with the aim to eradicate arbitrary discrimination in the military.
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Although the Stonewall riots on June 28, 1969, are generally considered the impetus of the modern gay liberation movement,Duberman, p. xiBianco, p. 194 a number of demonstrations of civil resistance took place prior to that date. These actions, often organized by local homophile organizations but sometimes spontaneous, addressed concerns ranging from anti-gay discrimination in employment and public accommodations to the exclusion of homosexuals from the United States military to police harassment to the treatment of homosexuals in revolutionary Cuba.
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At a party policy conference in February 1972, Maloney formally came out as gay while criticizing federal Justice Minister Otto Lang over anti-gay discrimination in federal laws. While homosexuality had already been decriminalized, many laws, including immigration and human rights policies around LGBT issues, remained discriminatory. Later in 1972, he ran as a candidate for the Toronto Board of Education in the 1972 municipal election,"Homosexual plans to run for seat on school board". Toronto Star, July 25, 1972.
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San Francisco also filed a motion to intervene in the case. The City cited its work in the earlier cases that had provided "extensive evidence and proposed findings on strict scrutiny factors and factual rebuttals to long claimed justifications for marriage discrimination". City Attorney Dennis Herrera said that his office is "singularly well-prepared" to help "put anti-gay discrimination on trial based on the facts". Walker permitted only San Francisco to intervene, as it could speak to the impact of Proposition 8 on local governments.
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In 1977, under the guidance of Jimmy Carter, a policy was removed which barred employment of gays in the foreign service and Internal Revenue Service. That same year, fourteen gay and lesbian activists were invited to the White House for the first official visit ever. Jimmy Carter publicly opposed the Briggs Initiative. However, in March 1980, Carter issued a formal statement indicating he would not issue an executive order banning anti-gay discrimination in the U.S. federal government and that he would not support including a gay rights plank in the Democratic Party platform.
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It was not until the introduction of the Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (MHOL) in the early 1980s that LGBT activism in Peru began. With the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, LGBT activism became increasingly visible, which increased international funding for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the gay community. Homosexuality has been decriminalized within Peru, and by 2011, anti-gay discrimination laws were in place. When the HIV/AIDS epidemic emerged in the 1980s, the media spread panic about the disease and its origins in "sexual promiscuity" within gay communities.
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The sodomy law inherited from the British Mandate of Palestine was repealed in 1988, though there was an explicit instruction issued in 1953 by the Attorney General of Israel ordering the police to refrain from enforcing this law, so long as no other offenses were involved. A national gay rights law bans some anti-gay discrimination, including in employment; some exemptions are made for religious organizations. In the past, military service of homosexuals was subject to certain restrictions. These restrictions were lifted in 1993, allowing homosexuals to serve openly in all units of the army.
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In 1981, North Dakota Governor Governor Allen Olson signed Executive Order Number 10, which the Governor has recently said, in interviews with the Fargo Forum Newspaper, was an attempt to protect State workers from anti-gay discrimination in employment, without expressly mentioning sexual orientation. In 1981, the North Dakota Supreme Court, in the case of Jacobson v. Jacobson ruled that because of society's prejudices, the sexual orientation of a parent would be the deciding factor in child custody cases. This ruling was subsequently reversed in 2003 by the case of Damron v. Damron.
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From the moment his case was revealed to the public, Matlovich was repeatedly called upon by gay groups to help them with fundraising and advocating against anti-gay discrimination, helping lead campaigns against Anita Bryant's efforts in Miami, Florida, to overturn a gay nondiscrimination ordinance and John Briggs' attempt to ban gay teachers in California. Sometimes he was criticized by individuals more to the left than he had become. "I think many gays are forced into liberal camps only because that's where they can find the kind of support they need to function in society," Matlovich once noted. While appealing his discharge, he moved from Virginia to Washington, D.C., and, in 1978, to San Francisco.
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Since 2004, Malta has had a ban on anti-gay discrimination in employment, in line with European Union requirements,Malta's gay group ask for equal rights, Pink News, 21 February 2008 but discrimination remained common to some extent until 2009 according to results through questionnaires carried with the participation of the LGBT community. Anti- discrimination protections were expanded in June 2012. In June 2012, Parliament amended the Criminal Code to provide penalty enhancements to hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity. On 14 April 2014, the Parliament of Malta unanimously approved a bill which amended the Constitution to add protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Changing speech styles, or code- switching, can indicate which identity individuals want to put forward as primary at a given time. Choices of language use among gay men depend on the audience and context, and shift depending on situational needs such as the need to demonstrate or conceal gay identity in a particular environment. Likewise, lesbians may foreground lesbian identity in some contexts but not in others. Podesva discusses an example of code-switching where a gay lawyer is being interviewed about anti-gay discrimination on the radio, so he balances the need to sound recognizably gay and the need to sound recognizably educated, since "gay speech" tends to be associated with frivolity and lack of education.
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First, it called for a grassroots movement of gay people to challenge anti-gay discrimination, and second, it recognized the importance of building a gay community. The society was forced to endure heavy pressure and public scrutiny during the anti-communist McCarthyism period, due to the communist leanings of some of the Society's members. In a column of the Los Angeles newspaper in March 1953 in regards to the Society, it was called a "strange new pressure group" of "sexual deviants" and "security risks" who were banding together to wield "tremendous political power." This article generated a dramatic change that in the end, a strong coalition of conservative delegates challenged the societies goals, achievements and instruments.
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The Boy Scouts of America maintain an official policy of barring "avowed homosexuals" from leadership; Cradle of Liberty, however, had adopted a non- discrimination policy. The BSA National Office sent Cradle of Liberty a cease- and-desist letter which threatened dissolution of the council if it failed to adopt the policies set forth by the National office, and the council rescinded its non-discrimination policy at the annual BSA meeting. Philadelphia, whose city charter bylaws prohibit discrimination against all individuals, including anti-gay discrimination, owns the land on which the council headquarters building stands and rents it to the council for $1 annually. Similar deals are given to other non-profits, including churches that have religious tests for their leadership.
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The seventies were seen as the "woman's turn", though many feminists incorporated civil rights ideals into their movement. A feminist who had inherited the leadership position of the civil rights movement from her husband, Coretta Scott King, as leader of the black movement, called for an end to all discrimination, helping and encouraging the Woman's Liberation movement, and other movements as well. At the National Women's Conference in 1977 a minority women's resolution, promoted by King and others, passed to ensure racial equality in the movement's goals. Similarly, the gay movement made a huge step forward in the 1970s with the election of political figures such as Harvey Milk to public office and the advocating of anti-gay discrimination legislation passed and not passed during the decade.
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The ads were part of a regional government campaign to combat anti-gay discrimination. In 2008, Danilo Giuffrida was awarded 100,000 euros compensation after having been ordered to re-take his driving test by the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport due to his sexuality; the judge said that the Ministry of Transport was in clear breach of anti-discrimination laws. In 2009, the Italian Chamber of Deputies shelved a proposal against homophobic hate-crimes, that would have allowed increased sentences for violence against homosexuals, approving the preliminary questions moved by Union of the Centre and supported by Lega Nord and The People of Freedom (although 9 deputies, politically near to the President of the Chamber Gianfranco Fini, have voted against). The deputy Paola Binetti, who belongs to Democratic Party, has voted against the party guidelines.
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Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships. It can include the presumption that other people are heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm and therefore superior. Although heterosexism is defined in the online editions of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary as anti-gay discrimination or prejudice "by heterosexual people" and "by heterosexuals", respectively, people of any sexual orientation can hold such attitudes and bias, and can form a part of internalised hatred of one's sexual orientation. Heterosexism as discrimination ranks gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and other sexual minorities as second-class citizens with regard to various legal and civil rights, economic opportunities, and social equality in many of the world's jurisdictions and societies.
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Although the June 28, 1969, Stonewall riots are generally considered the starting point of the modern gay liberation movement, a number of demonstrations and actions took place before that date. These actions, often organized by local homophile organizations but sometimes spontaneous, addressed concerns ranging from anti-gay discrimination in employment and public accommodations to the exclusion of homosexuals from the United States military to police harassment to the treatment of homosexuals in revolutionary Cuba. The early actions have been credited with preparing the LGBT community for Stonewall and contributing to the riots' symbolic power. See: List of LGBT actions in the United States prior to the Stonewall riots In the autumn of 1959, the police force of New York City's Wagner administration began closing down the city's gay bars, which had numbered almost two dozen in Manhattan at the beginning of the year.
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That fall, Petrelis and other ACT UP members heckled Philip Morris Co. executives in some cities as they traveled the country with Virginia's original copy of the Bill of Rights, a Philip Morris sponsored tour celebrating the founding document's upcoming bicentennial. Petrelis credited this "public relations nightmare" with the company's willingness the following summer to settle the boycott. On May 31, 1991, the Philip Morris Co. and ACT UP held a joint press conference announcing an end to the boycott, with the cigarette and beer maker condemning anti-gay discrimination, and promising to double its contributions to AIDS causes and create a new program to channel contributions to lesbian and gay groups. The company also specified that its campaign contributions to Helms were based on Helms' support of the tobacco industry alone and did not reflect agreement with his other positions.
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Following a protest against the ANC, Tatchell described himself as a long-time anti-apartheid activist, in an essay for the book 'sex and politics in South Africa', he claimed that his lobbying of the ANC in 1987 contributed to it renouncing homophobia and making its first public commitment to lesbian and gay human rights and that in 1989 and 1990, he helped persuade the ANC to include a ban on anti-gay discrimination in the post-apartheid constitution (claiming he assisted in drafting model clauses for the ANC)Sex and Politics in South Africa (Double Storey Books, Cape Town, 2005), pp. 140–49. After Tachell was named as one of the UKs most "hate filled bigots" in the 'Desi Express' newspaper, Aaron Saeed, Muslim Affairs spokesperson for the gay human rights group OutRage!, claimed that Tatchell was involved in the anti-apartheid movement for over 20 years.Galloway Activist Urges: Assault Tatchell: Respect Member Stirs Homophobia, Violence and Xenophobia Against Gay Activist , UK Gay News, 16 January 2006.
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Gay rights activists asked New York State Governor Mario Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to the case, citing the fact that Staten Island District Attorney William L. Murphy had been the only one of the city's five district attorneys to oppose the city's anti-gay-discrimination law when it was passed in 1986. Also, in that same year, Murphy had prosecuted a carjacking case that resulted in Taylor, then 16 years old, being adjudicated a juvenile offender when he could have been tried as an adult, and Sarlo receiving a sentence of 1½ to 4½ years, the minimum then possible on the charges for which he had been indicted. In both the 1986 carjacking case and the Zappalorti murder, Taylor, in statements he made to the police, cited animosity toward homosexuals as a motive for the crime. (The victim in the 1986 case was attacked near a boardwalk in the South Beach area reportedly frequented by homosexuals, and Zappalorti's sexual orientation was common knowledge in the neighborhood where both he and Taylor resided.) Sarlo, however, denied harboring such sentiments.
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