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The Supreme Court's Bostock v. Clayton County decision ushered in protections for millions of LGBTQ+ workers nationwide – and it was made possible by three courageous plaintiffs: Gerald Bostock, Donald Zarda and Aimee Stephens.

The United States Department of Labor has announced a date that it will honor three LGBTQ people who fought for equal rights in the workplace and won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling three years ago.

Monday, Oct. 7 marks the start of a new U.S. Supreme Court term. The justices will tackle several high profile issues—guns, immigration, healthcare, and possibly abortion—putting the court front and center as we enter a presidential election year. The court loomed large in the 2016 election, and the new term has the makings to do the same on Election Day 2020.

The Supreme Court, returning this week for the beginning of its 2019-2020 term, heard oral argument Tuesday in three cases asking it to decide whether the definition of sex in U.S. law includes sexual orientation and gender identity.  At issue is the meaning of the word “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the primary federal law prohibiting discrimination in employment.

While the Supreme Court discusses 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, Newsweek looks at how each judge stands on same-sex marriage.

Last year has seen big changes in the workplace for LGBTQ employees. First, there was the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which interpreted Title...

Pride Month is dedicated to the celebration of LGBTQ culture and the continued fight for the community’s civil rights and equality. Nowhere has the fight for equality been more...

Florida Implements Bostock Today, Florida’s Commission on Human Relations announced its intention to fully implement the Bostock v. Clayton County decision on the state level. This action means that Florida’s more than 772,000 LGBTQ residents will now be protected under state law against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations. “Today’s action by the Florida Commission on Human Relations is an enormous victo...

Bostock v. Clayton County. [1] There, the Court held that by barring employer discrimination against any individual “because of such individual’s . . . sex,” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also bars employment discrimination because an individual is gay or transgender. The paper then speculates about how much Bostock will affect how likely lower court judges will read other “sex” discrimination prohibitions in the U.S. Code in the same way, in part based on a canvass of...

Human Rights Campaign Calls On States To Implement Bostock Decision Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization —following President Biden’s historic Day One Executive Order, calls upon states lacking LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws to follow suit by implementing the Supreme Court’s Bostock decision to state sex nondiscrimination laws. State civil rights or human rights commissions should b...