Supreme Court to Answer the Question of Whether LGBTQ People are Protected from Workplace Discrimination
This column was one of the more emotional columns I’ve written for the Philadelphia Gay News. I am writing this sitting in my hotel room at the Dearborn Inn in Michigan, after visiting the Henry Ford Museum of Innovation which houses the historical bus that Rosa Parks...Anti-LGBTQ Moves of the Trump Administration: 2018 in Review
Since Donald Trump took office, LGBTQ citizens and advocates have braced themselves for an onslaught of policy changes and legislation designed to take away hard-won rights, remove protections against discriminations, and otherwise relegate them back to second-class...Lesbian Couple Denied Housing by Senior Living Community Files Suit
In 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that marriage equality was the law of the land, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community celebrated, but only briefly. Marriage is only one step in a lifelong...SCOTUS ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop and Arlene’s Flowers requires increased vigilance of marketplace discrimination
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips in his anti-LGBTQ discrimination case. In the 7-2 opinion, the court ruled Phillips had not received fair treatment for his religious beliefs by the Colorado...