by admin | Jul 26, 2017 | Civil Rights, Featured
Before the June 2015 decision to legalize gay marriage, there were still homosexual couples who lived together and pooled their incomes and owned homes. They existed across the country. But LGBT homeowners were at a massive disadvantage, with no access to the legal...
by admin | Apr 5, 2017 | Civil Rights, Featured, News
Kimberly Hively, a former teacher at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana, will be one of those names mentioned in law books for future generations. Her case is an iconic stepping stone in the path to progress. She alleges that her former employer denied her a...
by admin | Mar 22, 2017 | Civil Rights, Featured
If you ask Joe Streetwise about discrimination laws in the United States, he’d probably assume that sexual orientation and gender identity are already protected classes. But in 62% percent of the country, he’d be wrong. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of...
by admin | Jun 14, 2016 | Civil Rights, Education, News, Transgender
For decades, schools and states have tried to wiggle around the language of Title IX, the statute of the Education Amendments of 1972 that protects students and staff from discrimination based on sex in education at institutions that receive Federal funding. On...
by admin | Jun 10, 2016 | Civil Rights, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+, News
Mississippi has passed a religious freedom law that will go into effect in July. Like all such laws, it is designed to punish LGBT people by allowing others to deny them services because serving hem violates their religious principles. In this case, the Protecting...
by admin | Jun 3, 2016 | Civil Rights, LGBTQIA+, News
The LGBT community has found itself at a crossroads, working towards progress the best they can in a world that still tries to resist it. While much of the nation is now in favor of same-sex rights and legislation, the recent wave of pro-LGBT laws and...
