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2014-07-02
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From George Chauncey's Gay New York to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, work-related LGBT literature and authors whose books focus on work are being highlighted for LGBT Pride Month as part of the U.S. Department of Labor's Books that Shaped Work in America, according to a press release. The Web-based project, www.dol.gov/books, aims to engage the public about the Labor Department's mission and this country's history as a nation of workers, as portrayed through published works.
In South Dakota, a gay teenage fast-food worker has claimed he was forced to wear a name tag with the word "gaytard" on it, Gay Star News reported. Yankton resident Tyler Brandt, 16, was working in a Taco John's restaurant earlier this year and said he had a very difficult relationship with his manager. When he tried to remove the nametag, Brandt says his manager forced him to put it back on in full view of customers. So far, the manager has not commented; however, Taco John CEO Jeff Linville said in a statement, "At Taco John's, we believe everyone should be treated with dignity and respect. ... Such actions will not be tolerated by our company." South Dakota has no employment-discrimination laws that protect LGBT people.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has said it may be time to consider extending the state's civil-rights laws to gay people, according to AZCapitolTimes.com . The governor conceded that, while existing state laws bar discrimination based on race, religion or gender, those do not extend to sexual orientation; however, the Republican said it may be worth exploring whether the time has come to change that. Her comments come several months after she made national headlines by vetoing legislation that would've expanded the rights of any business to turn away customers based on a claim that serving that person would interfere with a "sincerely held" religious belief. |
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