Tag: gay discrimination

A man won $1.5 million dollars in a discrimination suit against the former governor of Iowa. A jury found that former state official Chris Godfrey was illegally discriminated against by then-Governor Terry Branstad (R) for being gay. “This is a win for me and it’s a win for the entire gay community in Iowa,” Godfrey said after the verdict. “It shows that we have sexual orientation in the Civil Rights Act in Iowa for a reason and nobody, not even Terry...

A customer says he won’t go back to a restaurant in Texas after a server described him as “fat” and “gay” on the receipt. The customer, who hasn’t been identified, told KTRK that he was confused and angry when he saw that “to go dude with dreads, fat, gay” was written on his receipt after spending a few hours at the Plush Daiquiri Bar and Grill in Houston. “That’s like stereotyping, for her to not even know and say fat, gay...

A new survey shows that young people’s support for LGBTQ people has dropped for the second consecutive year. The Harris Poll and GLAAD just released the results of their yearly survey in their Accelerating Acceptance report. The survey was conducted this past January and involved 1970 respondents, including 1754 non-LGBTQ respondents. They were asked about whether they would be comfortable with an LGBTQ person in various situations, like having an LGBTQ doctor, their kid having an LGBTQ teacher, or a family...

Gordon Lake (American) and Manuel Santos (Spanish) are an ordinary gay couple who wanted to be parents and decided to hire a surrogate mother in Thailand, country where it was legal to do so at the time they made the contract with the surrogate mother. So, they traveled to Thailand and got their daughter. But when the mother Patidta Kusolsang knew the couple was a gay one sent a message to their cell phones stating she changed her mind and...