Top 10 National Stories of 2018
No. 10: Ric Grenell confirmed as ambassadorU.S. Ambassador to Germandy Richard Grenell (Photo public domain)After months of Democratic opposition, the U.S. Senate confirmed Richard Grenell this y...
Information on Transgender Employees Removed from Federal Website
Information protecting transgender people in the workplace was removed from the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) website, reported NCRM.The page, created under the Obama administration, used to provid...
Rulings in favor of Title VII protections for LGBTQ workers on the rise
New rulings from federal appeals courts that have found an existing civil rights law against sex discrimination also prohibits anti-LGBTQ discrimination are shaking up the landscape for protections for LGBTQ pe...
Federal court rules for gay rights in major employment discrimination case
In a major ruling affirming protections for lesbian, gay and bisexual workers, a federal appeals court in New York City ruled Monday employment discrimination based on sexual orientation is unlawful under Title...
US Supreme Court declines to hear Georgia lesbian’s employment discrimination case
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it will not review the case of Jameka Evans, the Georgia woman who claims she was harassed in the workplace and fired from her security officer position at G...
Facebook, Google, Starbucks join in Georgia lesbian’s US Supreme Court fight
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Starbucks and Viacom have joined 71 other companies in an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief supporting Georgia lesbian Jameka Evans in her efforts to ask the US Supreme Court to ...
Lambda Legal petitions US Supreme Court to review Georgia lesbian’s employment rights case
Lambda Legal on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to review the case of Jameka Evans, a Savannah security guard who was reportedly physically assaulted, harassed, denied equal pay and forced to leave her job ...
Lambda Legal to take Georgia anti-LGBT discrimination case to US Supreme Court
The US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied an en banc petition asking the full court re-hear a Georgia anti-LGBT discrimination case — so Lambda Legal is going straight to the top.On July 6, Lambda Leg...
ACLU files brief in support of Georgia lesbian fired for being gay
The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia joined the national ACLU this week in filing a friend-of-the-court brief that argued Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination on the bas...
Georgia lesbian fired for being gay takes potentially historic case to federal court
A downtown Atlanta courtroom was the scene Thursday morning of a hearing in a case that could change the landscape for LGBT employees across the country. A panel of three judges with the U.S. Eleventh Circuit C...
5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 8
1. The Washington Post reports that the Human Rights Campaign is preparing to release a report after the election urging more than 70 specific policy changes that would ban LGBT discrimination in federal progra...