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:Eric Ethington (Author) | March 25, 2011
Baltimore, Maryland – A House Committee has passed a bill by a margin of 15-8 which adds both gender identity as well as gender expression to the State Non-Discrimination laws for employment and housing. If it passes the full House, it will then head over to the Senate. Press Release from Equality Maryland, via JoeMyGod: [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | March 21, 2011
West Virginia – For the third time, the State House has failed to take up the bills outlawing housing and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, despite heavy support in the State Senate. The State Senate passed the bills in both 2008 and 2009, in fact the 2008 vote was unanimous. But [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 25, 2011
Utah – Senate Bill 148, which would provide housing and workplace protections against discrimination for sexual orientation or gender identity has been denied a committee hearing. The bill sits in the Rules Committee, and chairwoman Sen Margaret Dayton (R) says it’s unneccessary to hear the bill. Senator Ben McAdams introduced the legislation several weeks ago, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 19, 2011
Montana – Yesterday, Teabagger Republican Representative Kristen Hansen introduced HB516, which would repeal all statewide or local ordinances which protect LGBT citizens in any way, shape or form. At the hearing for the bill, legislators refused to allow anyone opposed to the bill to be heard. Unbelievable. At the legislative hearing, Republicans refused to allow [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 8, 2011
Kentucky – The Fairness Coalition have just released a survey showing that 83% of the population support protections for LGBT citizens in workplace and housing. Watch the local news coverage below. Chris Hartman, the Director of the Fairness Campaign, told Fox 41 News, “83% of Kentucky believe that their citizens should all have a fair [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 1, 2011
Ogden, UT – The City Council is meeting tonight in a work session to hash out the proposed non-discrimination law which would prohibit discrimination in housing and employment based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Public imput will be taken, and PRIDEinUtah will be there to live-blog! The meeting starts at 6pm at the City [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 24, 2011
The first embeddable coverage from the rally tonight is now available. The LGBT community of Utah was out in force tonight on Capitol Hill, reminding our legislators that 70% of the state, the Mormon church, and the Constitution all support Non-Discrimination laws. I’ll post the additional videos as soon as they are available. Channel 5 [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 21, 2011
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced a new proposal which, if approved, would ban discrimination in housing based on sexual orientation or gender identity nationwide. The proposed policy changes would have 3 different goals, based largely on a 2007 report which said that 30% of same sex couples had experienced [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 17, 2011
Pennsylvania – Democratic state legislators are saying that while a non-discrimination law for LGBT citizens is inevitable, the chances of one passing any time soon are slim. A rash of Republican tea-partiers took over in November, and they’ve pledged to block it at all costs. Always sad to see these so-called ‘conservatives’ blocking laws which [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 22, 2010
BREAKING! Equality Utah has just announced that they have succeeded in their 10 in 10 goal! Last night, Grand County unanimously passed non-discrimination ordinances, banning discrimination in housing and/or employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Congratulations, well done and an enormous Thank You to Equality Utah! After 12 months of intense work, they’ve [...]
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