Minnesota gay rights
MINNEAPOLIS -- Another day, another seismic decision from the Supreme Court of the United States.
In a judgment released Friday, the 6-3 conservative majority affirmed the rights of a Christian website and graphic creator in Colorado to say her clients she won't build wedding websites for same-sex couples. In the case known as 303 Resourceful LLC v. Elenis, the court stated the First Amendment supersedes a Colorado public accommodations law.
"The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they hope, not as the government demands," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority. "If [Smith] wishes to speak, she must either speak as the Mention demands or face sanctions for expressing her retain beliefs, sanctions that may include compulsory participation in 'remedial ... training,' filing periodic compliance reports as officials deem necessary, and paying monetary fines," he said, referencing the penalties for violating Colorado's common accommodations law. "Under our precedents, that 'is enough,' more than enough, to represent an impermissible abridgment of the First Amendment's right to speak f
As a nonprofit organization consecrated to advancing gender equity through the law, the Minnesota Human Rights Proceed (MHRA) is Gender Justice’s favorite statute. The MHRA recognizes and declares that the opportunity to obtain employment, housing, public services, education, and access to public accommodations without discrimination is a civil right. It allows people who have been discriminated against based on their membership in a protected class to sue in command to obtain damages and other backwards-looking relief, along with policy changes and other equitable relief to ensure the discrimination does not continue.
Unlike many federal civil rights statutes which govern discrimination only in limited and targeted areas, the MHRA is a one-stop shop for comprehensive discrimination protections. It prohibits not just employment discrimination, but also education and housing discrimination among others. The MHRA is also groundbreaking. In 1993, it became the first state-level anti-discrimination law in the nation to expressly bar discrimination against transgender people. The first city to do so was Minneapolis back in 1975.
While there is much to observe about concerning civil right
With his selection by Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz could be the next Vice President of the Together States. Walz’s record of support for LGBTQIA2S+ youth and adults has been clear throughout his career as a teacher, legislator, and Governor.
Under Minnesota’s pro-equality legislative and executive branches, Governor Walz, Lt. Governor Flanagan, and the Homosexual Legislators Caucus built the state into a national model for protecting the healthcare access and human rights of the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, especially transgender, neutrois and 2-Spirit residents.
Below are a few of the accomplishments in Minnesota in the 2023-2024 legislative biennium.
First Queer Caucus: Voters elected 11 new LGBTQ+ individuals to the MN Legislature in 2022. In December 2022, Representative Leigh Finke was selected as the inaugural chair of the Queer Legislators Caucus in Minnesota.
Trans Refuge State: Gov. Walz signed an executive order to protect those traveling to Minnesota to receive gender-affirming care. Two months later Trans Refuge became the law in Minnesota, protecting patients, families, and providers from out-of-state laws punishing trans health care acces
Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota, by Stewart VanCleve.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
MNHS call number: HQ76.3.U52 M683 2012
Minnesota GLBT Movement Papers (1964-2007), unhurried by Leo Treadway.
Correspondence, agendas, bylaws, minutes, financial reports, notes, newsletters, brochures, miscellaneous printed matter, and newspaper clippings collected by Leo Treadway, a leading Minnesota gay rights activist.
MNHS phone number: Digital finding aid
Minnesota Committee for Gay and Sapphic Rights Records.
Board and annual meeting minutes, news clippings, financial data, office logs, correspondence, lobbying files, and other records of an organization formed in 1974 to work for passing local ordinances and express laws guaranteeing rights for gays and lesbians, to combat homophobia and abuse against gays and lesbians, and to educate the public and legislature about gay and lesbian issues.
MNHS call number: Digital finding aid
Gay and Lesbian Activities in Minneapolis: Photographs.
Views of Same-sex attracted Pride celebrations, a 1979 meeting with Minneapolis Principal of Police D.R. Dwyer, Tim Campbell'
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