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Amid renewed efforts to ban discrimination, senator says lawmakers have been “so far behind where the public is on this issue.”
For years, LGBTQ Michiganders have faced discrimination in public life due to the structure of the state’s civil rights law. The Elliott-Larsen Act of 1976 does not include protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity, meaning a person could be fired, denied housing or otherwise be legally discriminated against for being LGBTQ.
In June of last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case that the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 does indeed protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Now, lawmakers in Michigan are once again trying to codify those protections in state law.
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The Hazel Park City Council on Tuesday introduced a human rights ordinance to protect LGBTQ residents from discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations and public.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Monday joined LGBTQ rights leaders to call on the Legislature to send her a bill to expand Michigan’s civil rights law. She
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