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Obama to sign order extending protections to LGBT workers of federal contractors
WASHINGTON — After years of pressure from gay rights groups, President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity, the White House said Monday.
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Queer Nation blasts HRC for ‘hypocrisy’ on LGBT workplace protections
NEW YORK — The gay rights activist group Queer Nation this week blasted the the Human Rights Campaign, the national’s largest LGBT lobbying group, for condemning Vatican hiring policies while it lobbies for passage of a workplace discrimination bill that includes religious protections.
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Study: Majority of LGBT workers nationwide are closeted on the job
WASHINGTON – A majority of LGBT workers nationwide are closeted on the job, according to a study released Wednesday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the HRC.
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Biden: There’s no ‘downside’ to an executive order for LGBT protections
WASHINGTON — If there’s one characteristic of Vice-President Joe Biden that can be counted on, it’s his ability to stay one step ahead of the President on matters of LGBT rights.
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La. lawmaker pulls LGBT workplace protections bill due to lack of votes
BATON ROUGE, La. — An effort to prohibit employers from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity has been shelved for the legislative session.
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Ohio school board debates policy to ban discrimination against gay teachers
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A proposal to protect schoolteachers from being fired or otherwise treated differently on the basis of sexual orientation is dividing the state school board.
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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)…