Plaintiffs in Supreme Court's LGBTQ workplace ruling inducted into Labor Hall of Honor

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Plaintiffs in Supreme Court's LGBTQ workplace ruling inducted into Labor Hall of Honor

The court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, found that existing federal law prohibits workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Gerald Bostock with acting Labor Secretary Julie Su at the Hall of Honor induction ceremony for the Bostock plaintiffs at the Labor Department in Washington on Wednesday.Ken Cedeno / Department of Labor

The three plaintiffs in the Supreme Court’s landmark LGBTQ workplace discrimination ruling were inducted into the U.S. Department of Labor’s Hall of Honor on Wednesday. ... Gerald Bostock, Aimee Stephens and Donald Zarda were at the center of the high court’s Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, decision on June 15, 2020. All three had alleged they were unlawfully discriminated against due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and the Supreme Court agreed, finding existing federal law prohibits such discrimination.

In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump appointee, the court found that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate due to an employee’s sex, among other factors — is inclusive of workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The majority opinion states that “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”

The trio were inducted into the Labor Hall of Honor — which was established in 1988 — in a ceremony at the Labor Department’s Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., though Stephens and Zarda were honored posthumously.

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Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su hosts the Bostock plaintiffs' induction ceremony into the Hall of Honor on Wednesday.Shawn T. Moore / Department of Labor

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