Fired for Being Gay? You Could Be Next!
January 10, 2009 by James Hipps
There is a great post on the Edge Boston about a Tennesse man who was fired for being gay. here is an excerpt from that post:
“A Tennessee man says he was fired from his job as a hotel’s manager of human resources for being gay–and also claims that the hotel’s owner challenged voices a challenge to him and other gay employees to bring suit for their firings.”
There has been a lot of critics, mostly homophobic publications, who are denouncing the claim, stating that it was due to the poor economy. Unfortunately, as someone who lives is one of 33 states, where you can still be fired for being gay and have no means of recourse, I know from personal experience, this can and does happen.
Read the entire post about the man from Tennessee by clicking here, and read about my own personal experience by clicking here.
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While gathering signatures in Texas, I had the pleasure of getting to speak to a very kind man who had unfortunately been fired for being a homosexual (this was in Texas some time ago). He was very glad to see us out there working toward ENDA.