Salt Lake City Mayor Proposes Pro-GLBT Law

The Salt Lake City Human Rights Commission conducted a study to determine what types of discrimination the city’s GLBT population faced. The study concluded that some Salt Lake City residents had been evicted from or denied rental housing because they were gay. Some had lost jobs or had been passed over for promotions because of their sexual orientation or because they are transgender. Such discrimination was widespread enough to warrant government intervention.

These findings prompted Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and his staff to draft an ordinance prohibiting housing and employment discrimination based on sexual preference or gender identity. Becker said that there is a need since neither federal nor state law designates gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people as a protected class.

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