Diversity Management, News and Updates
While LGBTQ advocates in the U.S. have fought for years for a nationwide ban on conversion therapy — the controversial idea that medical treatments such as electric shock, starvation and hypnosis can “turn” a gay person straight — our neighbors to the North have beat us to it, approving legislation…
Pride Month is ending on an even happier note following Monday’s Supreme Court announcement that schools can’t force transgender students to use bathrooms that don’t align with their gender identity. Orion Rummler of nonprofit newsroom The 19th reported that the case of Gloucester County School Board v. Grimm began seven…
As a growing number of states have begun prejudiced and hate-filled attempts to roll back rights for their LGBTQ citizens, the state of Virginia is moving in the opposite direction, approving a number of recent pro-LGBTQ measures into law. The latest diverse and inclusive act from state lawmakers? Virginia will…
Elizabeth Peratrovich is set to be the first-ever Alaska Native woman to be featured on U.S. currency. Peratrovich — who was part of the Tlingit Nation — played a key role in getting the earliest U.S. anti-discrimination law passed. The Anti-Discrimination Law of 1945 prevents discrimination on the basis of…
California is now the first state to explicitly protect natural hairstyles in its anti- workplace discrimination laws. The aptly-named CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) acknowledges that hairstyles have racial and cultural implications and that Blackness has historically been ridiculed. In April, the California State…
By Michael Nam With the controversy of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act still casting a pall over LGBT dealings with the Hoosier State, one member of the state’s GOP, Mayor Greg Ballard of Indianapolis, has gone out of his way to show acceptance and hospitality as Pride Week begins. “I…
By Michael Nam Despite the massive backlash the state of Indiana and Gov. Mike Pence received following the passage of its “religious freedom” law that would further protect businesses that discriminate against LGBT people, the legislators in Indiana decided not to investigate the issue of anti-LGBT discrimination in its state…
By Michael Nam Republican state Rep. Randy Boehning of North Dakota found himself publicly outed as a frequenter of the gay dating app, Grindr, The Forum reported. While there are divisions within the gay community over forcibly outing even anti-LGBT lawmakers, this incident highlights the discrimination allowed under law in…
By Sheryl Estrada Photo by Shutterstock A Benton County judge ruled Wednesday that a Washington state florist violated anti-discrimination and consumer-protection laws in refusing to sell flower arrangements for a same-gender wedding, which she claims she did for religious reasons. Baronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers in eastern Washington, hadservedRobert…
