Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars discrimination against LGBTQ workers.
It was a sweeping and unexpected ruling from a conservative-majority court. The seeds for that milestone victory were planted nearly 50 years ago in 1974, when Rep.
Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) introduced the original Equality Act, an expansive measure that sought to amend Title VII to ban discrimination “on the basis of sex, marital status, or sexual