In January, Angola made headlines when it became the latest country to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. At least 72 other countries have advanced human rights by adopting similar anti-discrimination protections, including the overwhelming majority of countries in Europe and the Americas.
In most of the United States, however, employees fired from their jobs or tenants evicted from their homes, simply for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), have no adequate recourse. The Equality Act, reintroduced in Congress on Wednesday, would change that and provide much-needed protection for LGBT people across the United States.
The Equality Act would strengthen civil rights protections in three ways. First, it would make it crystal clear that federal sex discrimination laws prohibit discrimination based on sex stereotypes, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics.
Second, the bill would expand existing civil rights protections from discrimination in public places to include entertainment venues, places that sell goods and services, and transportation services........
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