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City of Atlanta Gets First Director of LGBTQ Affairs

ATLANTA, GA — (11-25-20) — Atlanta Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has appointed the city’s first director of LGBTQ affairs last week as part of her “equity agenda” for 2021. Mayor Bottoms nominated Malik Brown to serve in the full-time position which will act as an adviser to the city and the Mayor's office. Malik [...]

Apple, Google, Microsoft and More Urge Supreme Court to Here Gay Rights Case

By JRL Charts|2017-10-12T10:34:25-07:00October 12th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Airbnb, American Airlines, Apple, Atlanta, BASF, civil rights act 1964, Deutsche Bank, Facebook, Google, Levi Strauss, LGBT discrimination, LGBT workplace protections, MasterCard, Microsoft, Salesforce, sex discrimination, tech companies defend LGBT rights, Title VII, Uber|

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, DC - Apple, Google and Microsoft are just a few of the major technology companies that are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case of alleged employment discrimination simply on the basis of sexual orientation. According to the Amicus brief which is a submission by parties not [...]