Related: Many major news outlets featured anti-trans voices in coverage of the Equality ActJoi Chaney, the executive director of the National Urban League’s Washington Bureau, noted that the Equality Act not only provides protections for LGBTQ people, but updates the definition of what constitutes “public accommodations” to include additional protections against discrimination based on race and ethnicity in retail stores, service providers, transportation like taxis and ride shares, bars and nightclubs, and gyms.“We call for the passage of the Equality Act, for the liberation of all people, because nobody’s free until LGBTQ people are free, until women are free, until black people, Latinx people and Asian-American people, at all of our.