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A mayor & thousands of businesses asked a city council for civil rights law. The council voted no.
The non-discrimination ordinance would protect LGBTQ people and keep businesses from fleeing town. It still didn’t pass – and council members have different excuses as to why.
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Wichita’s proposed nondiscrimination ordinance is so awful that no one wants it to pass
Wichita, Kansas has a strange and convoluted history when it comes to LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws.
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A town is refusing to fly the Pride flag & won’t even give any explanation to residents
The city’s mayor, who has a history of using anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, refused to allow discussion of the topic.
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Lawmaker using a homophobic slur to deride the press is condemned & dropped from committees
Jeff Hayner said his use of the slur was okay because it was an “archaic” and “hardly ever hear(d).” His supporters casted him as a victim in front of a gay lawmember who actually received hate mail.