On June 12, 2012 the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) heard testimony from M. V. Lee Badgett , Research Director of the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA and Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Kylar … Continue reading
Russia’s largest airline, Aeroflot, reportedly forced a gay flight attendant into a heterosexual marriage in order to keep his job. Maxim Kupreev, a 25 year old gay man, was given the ultimatum by Aeroflot to either marry a woman or lose his job. Kupreev married an old friend at the end of 2011 in a … Continue reading
A Pennsylvania woman has filed suit after her New Jersey-based employers allegedly dismissed her for wearing a prosthetic penis to work. The Philadelphia Daily News cites a federal civil rights complaint filed by Pauline Davis Wednesday, which says she wore the device to the J&J Snack Foods plant in Moosic, Lackawanna County as she was contemplating … Continue reading
