The idea of a national law prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation is so old that it could have grandchildren by now. (Maybe that’s how to think of the marriage campaign – equality demands skipped a generation.) At any rate, there continues to be no immediate future for enactment of such a law in [...]
Tomorrow night (details here), I’m going to be on a panel with Gary Gates, Chad Griffin and Patrick Guerrero sponsored by the Williams Institute, discussing the impact of the election on lgbt rights. At the federal level, I see four clusters of issues as the most important questions likely to arise while Obama remains [...]
Following is a quintessentially irreverent and irascible swan song from our main man Barney (I have excerpted quite a bit; full text is here): Washington Blade: To what degree have you seen support for LGBT equality increase in the U.S. Congress since you took office as a congressman in 1981? Rep. Barney Frank: Oh, enormously. When I first [...]
Late last month, U. S. District Judge James Gwin denied summary judgment to the defendants in Hutchinson v. Cuyahoga County Board of County Commissioners (2011 WL 4452394). Shari Hutchinson alleged that she was denied several jobs in the county agency responsible for child support enforcement because she is lesbian. Hutchinson was able to produce indirect evidence of discrimination [...]
Following are excerpts from a column posted on Bilerico by former Hill staffer Tico Almeida: …[C]onsider the hypothetical examples of a lesbian employee of the Alabama State Department of Agriculture, a gay male employee of the Arizona State Department of Transportation, and a bisexual employee of the Alaska State Department of Tourism. These three states [...]
Kudos to Chris Geidner, who has published an in-depth examination of the political moves that led to ENDA's legislative death this year. It's Rashomon-style history, which we've seen before – dispiriting, no matter whose story you believe. The piece is long, so I have excerpted it: …As the members of Congress put in place the final [...]