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Nikko Briteramos (screen capture via Legal Lambda)In October 2017, personal trainer Nikko Briteramos was surprised to be turned away at a barber shop because of his HIV status. Briteramos had been a customer at King of Kuts barbershop in the Leimert Park area of Los Angeles several times before. But apparently, another barber in the establishment who knew Briteramos shared his HIV status with the owner. And so, on that visit, owner Ramsy...

A retired police officer was just awarded $1.8 million after it was determined by jury that the police chief discriminated against him for being in the military and because be believed the officer was gay. 50-year-old Kenneth Hagel worked as a Sea Girt police officer and was a member of the U.S. Navy Reserves in Lakehurst, New Jersey for more than 30 years, during which time he was deployed to Kuwait, Guam, and Spain. NJ.com reports: For the record: Hagel identifies as straight and...

All 25-year-old Matthew Furlong wanted to do was “follow in his father’s footsteps” and become a police officer. Two years ago, he applied to join the Cheshire Police Department during a diversity drive. The department was hoping to hire more LGBTQ officers. You know, because diversity is a good thing! There was just one teensy tiny problem. Furlong is not L, G, B, T, or Q. He’s straight. 100% hetero. No homo. Got that? Despite this, he applied for the job anyway and when...

Is Farrah Fawcett’s son guilty of a homophobic attack? That’s what one gay man is saying in a lawsuit. Ken Fox, a gay man living in L.A. has filed a statement of damages against Redmond O’Neal for 100 million. According to The Blast, the statement of damages includes: $15 million: pain and suffering $15 million: emotional distress $200,000: medical expenses $1 million: future medical expenses $200,000: lost earnings to date $5 million: future lost earnings $1 million: attorneys’ fees ...

The San Francisco Police Department is once again being accused of homophobia and harassment. In a lawsuit filed last Thursday, 28-year-old officer Brendan Mannix accuses members of the San Francisco Police Department of sexual harassment, sexual discrimination based on his sexual orientation, and retaliating against a whistle-blower. Mannix says he was subjected to homophobic remarks by colleagues about his sexual orientation, including calling him a “queen” and “too dramatic” and making disparaging comments about his masculinity. When Mannix tried reporting the behavior,...

Chris Sevier previously sued for the right to marry his laptop. A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed last summer against four members of Congress who display rainbow flags outside their offices in Washington, D.C., the Press-Telegram reports. Chris Sevier’s 38-page complaint argued that homosexuality is a religion and that officials who displayed Pride flags were thus violating the constitutional prohibition on government establishment of religion. In his suit, which sought $1 million in damages, Sevier described homosexuality as a...

A gay couple filed a lawsuit this week after one of their twins was denied US citizenship. The twins, Ethan and Aiden Dvash-Banks were born to the same surrogate mother using sperm from each of their dads. Andrew, who has dual Canadian-American citizenship and Israeli-born Elad got married in Canada in 2011 and decided they both wanted a child genetically related to them. But their son Ethan has become a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed on Monday which seeks for him to...

A new lawsuit file against Tesla, claims LGBT discrimination. This is the second in two days, with the first one being over racial harassment. In the past it has been found guilty of sexism. In the new lawsuit, an assembly line worker, Jorge Ferro claims he was taunted and threatened for being gay. Ferro claims he was fired for reporting the issues, and that an HR employee took his badge away and insinuated being gay was a handicap. Telsa has issued a...

A big win for Frank Ocean today. We first reported back in February that the talented R&B singer was being sued by his estranged father, Calvin Cooksey, for $14.5 million dollars for defamation of character. This was largely in part due to a post that Frank made on his Tumblr back in 2016, when he recalled his father dragging him out of a diner after calling their transgendered waitress a "faggot". Here's an excerpt from that post: “Many are annoyed by our...

Coworkers started a rumour that Pearl and another male employee were engaged in a relationship. A man has won a settlement against his former employer for homophobic discrimination. The best part is, the guy isn’t even gay. James Pearl, 55, used to work as a sanitation worker in Los Angeles. His lawyer alleges that Pearl was subjected to “insults, criticisms, demeaning comments, suggestive remarks, offensive posters, cartoons … concerning his alleged sexual orientation” while he was a City employee. Coworkers also...

The Saint Cloud couple are challenging Minnesota’s Human Rights Act Film and video company Telescope Media Group, owned by married couple Carl and Angel Larsen, filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against Minnesota’s commissioner of human rights, Kevin Lindsey, and attorney general, Lori Swanson. The Larsens allege that the state’s laws will lead to them to be punished for refusing to provide video footage services to same-sex couples wishing to marry. The lawsuits says that the Larsens, ‘Are Christians who believe...

A man who was allegedly fired from a retirement home owned by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond has filed a federal lawsuit claiming discrimination. John M. Murphy was fired in April 2015, just eight days into his job as executive director of the St. Francis Home, according to court papers filed this month. He says two diocese officials visited his office, Chief Financial Officer Michael McGee and Human Resources Officer Dorothy Mahanes, who told him they had learned he was gay. When...

A Bessemer attorney, who is against last year’s order by the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage nationwide, on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against the five justices on the high court who made up the majority in that ruling. “Defendants (justices) goes beyond a manipulation, twist, strain, or unique perspective on the text and crosses over in to an abandonment of the Constitution,” attorney Austin Burdick states in the lawsuit. Burdick filed the lawsuit in Birmingham in the U.S. District...