His firing, he says, sent a negative message to all LGBTQ people in Clayton County — especially LGBTQ youth.No matter what the outcome is, though, he’s glad he fought back. And, in fact, I don’t regret any decision I’ve made since that day I had to walk out of Clayton County Juvenile Court.”For Bostock, who says he came out late in life, becoming an LGBTQ justice warrior was something he couldn’t have seen coming. That's who I am, and anybody that knows me knows that to be true.”
These were the jobs held—and lost—by Aimee Stephens, Gerald Bostock, and Donald Zarda, the names at the center of Monday’s landmark Supreme Court … Recent events underscore the injustices in our society, and remind us that we have to work harder.Thank you to the Supreme Court for recognizing basic human rights, and sending a clear signal that we should treat each other with dignity and respect.I hope this decision provides hope to LGBTQ people everywhere.Watch CBS News anytime, anywhere with the our 24/7 digital news network. And gosh, if someone would have told me seven years ago that I’d be sitting here talking with you today, I would’ve laughed. "I don't regret one decision," said Gerald Bostock, the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court ruling banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual identity. But along with my fellow plaintiffs in this case – Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda (may you now rest in peace) – I fought back. I know of many men and women who came out to co-workers, family and friends after joining such leagues and I am among them.
He won his case in the Supreme Court.In 1990, when I was sports editor at the Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram, I came out to co-workers as gay by asking them to buy a T-shirt to sponsor my flag football team at Gay Games III in Vancouver. “Professor Karlan is excellent,” Sutherland says.Gerald Bostock's case is one of three the high court will hear Tuesday on whether anti-LGBTQ discrimination is legal.“You can’t cure discrimination by doubling down on it,” he says. Unlike Bostock, I was not fired from my job. “It’s wrong and it’s immoral.”The three cases produced what’s known as a “circuit split,” in legal parlance, among federal appeals courts. “I’m proud of who I am,” he says. Around the same time, Clayton County informed Bostock that it would be conducting an internal audit of the program funds he managed. I never realized that my life would be turned upside down after I made this decision to join a gay recreational softball league, and making that decision has impacted every part of my life…And, you know, I'm just a regular guy that wanted to go to a job he loved and a job he was good at.”There is no question: LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination in the workplace.Supreme Court just ruled that firing someone for being LGBTQ is a VIOLATION of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act!“Shortly after 10 o’clock, someone posted on the blog that they were about to announce Bostock vs. Clayton County. Bostock claimed he was fired in 2013 because he is gay. 17, 2020, at 23:23 PM Correction: The caption of the photograph of Gerald Bostock misidentified the date and location in …