Kerry, Nadler Propose Fair Housing Bill for LGBTs
The Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act, or HOME Act, would amend existing federal law to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing and credit.
The Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act, or HOME Act, would amend existing federal law to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing and credit.
Use this map to find out if your state offers protections against
employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender
identity.
As the political frenzy over job creation and unemployment heightens, comprehensive gender identity employment protections remain elusive.
The California state Senate Tuesday passed the Gender Nondiscrimination Act, authored by Toni Atkins (pictured)
to strengthen existing protections against discrimination based on gender identity and expression.
Her tweak on gender identity opened the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday with a monologue in character as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone, who declared nothing real, and everything theater.
Yet another Paris museum is set to highlight the work of Claude Cahun,
whose message on gender identity becomes only more relevant in the years
after the artist’s death.
Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Ill., has become the first college or
university to ask about sexual orientation and gender identity on its
undergraduate application.
The Chamber of Deputies voted on Tuesday not to
approve a bill that would protect people people from discrimination on
the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Florida’s Miami-Dade County school district, the fourth largest in
the nation, has added gender identity to its antiharassment and
antibullying policy.
New legislation to recognize gender identity in Ireland has raised
concerns because of the strict conditions it imposes, for example, by forcing applicants to choose between their marriage and recognition.