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KFC heiress launches $1 million program to employ LGBTQ people harmed by coronavirus
Kaila Methven, a lingerie designer who is also heiress to the KFC fast-food chain, wants to help LGBTQ people and survivors of domestic abuse while raising money for charities.
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You’d better work: California launches program to get transgender people jobs
The project will place trans job seekers into entry-level positions at restaurants statewide, and a state grant will pay their first 60 hours of wages.
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How to move the LGBTQ community beyond the priorities of the past
Oppression operates like a wheel with many spokes. If we work to dismantle only a few specific spokes, the wheel will continue to roll over people.
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West Virginia school board strengthens LGBT employment protections
Among the changes was adding “ancestry and sexual orientation” to the equal opportunity section of the school system’s cultural diversity and human relations policy.
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Justin Bond: RentBoy raid is about “workers’ rights,” “sex phobia,” “public shaming”
“This is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of mainstream patriarchal culture and the government.”
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N.C. excludes LGBT protections in governor’s employment executive order
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory passed over protections for LGBT workers in signing a new executive order today barring employment discrimination for state workers. Statewide LGBT advocates are condemning the exclusion and are insisting the governor revisit the new order. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the governor continues…
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Bill to prohibit anti-gay workplace discrimination stalls in Neb. legislature
LINCOLN, Neb. — A bill that would prohibit Nebraska employers from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity has stalled in the Legislature.
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Mozilla CEO resignation: Free speech suppressed, or free market at work?
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The resignation of Mozilla’s CEO amid outrage that he supported an anti-gay marriage campaign is prompting concerns about how Silicon Valley’s strongly liberal culture might quash the very openness that is at the region’s foundation.
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Neb. bill prohibiting anti-gay employment discrimination faces resistance
LINCOLN, Neb. — A bill that would protect Nebraska residents from employment discrimination based on their sexual orientation is facing resistance from some Nebraska lawmakers.
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Why an LGBT non-discrimination executive order would not be ‘redundant’
In 2008, then-candidate Obama pledged that if elected president, he would use an executive order to protect the LGBT employees of all federal contractors from discrimination. After several years of pressure from LGBT advocacy groups, the Obama administration still refuses to act on this executive order, explaining that it would prefer that Congress pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)…