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Laws
The state of Connecticut
prohibits work discrimination both in private and in public employment.
Discrimination is prohibited both on the basis of sexual orientation and on
the basis of gender identity. The State of Connecticut
offers same-sex domestic partners health insurance and pension benefits.
For more information and updates visit the Connecticut tab on the HRC
website and CT State Pride
A lot is going on at State legislature level both in favor
and against lgbt issues. I urge you to keep updated via the Love Makes A Family website and the Connecticut Civil Liberties
Union
Private, consensual, non-commercial sexual acts involving adult
people of the same sex are legal throughout the US
since the Supreme Court sentence in
Lawrence vs. Texas of June 2003.
In fact, in Connecticut, they have been legal since 1971.
The city of New Haven prohibits work discrimination
in public and private employment on the basis of sexual orientation (but not
gender identity). For more information and updates visit the New
Haven tab on the HRC website.
Right today (May 5th,
2003) the New Haven
boar of Alderpersons rejected the creation of a domestic partner registry.
The best way to keep informed on lgbt legislative issues in New Haven is to
sign up for the Outland
e-mailing list and the LGBT Coop
(undergraduates) e-mailing list in particular qpac and Project Orange.
Yale University Policies
Read Yale
University non-discrimination policy covering sexual
orientation.
Check also the Yale
tab on the HRC website.
Find out about domestic partner
benefits at Yale
Read about the Yale
Law School
non-discrimination policy and find out about the efforts of the Student-Faculy Alliance for
Miliatary Equality (SAME) at the Law School about it.
Yale
College (undergraduates) procedures regarding complaints of discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual
orientation.
Looking for job after graduation?
Find out which firms have good lgbt policies by consulting
the HRC
WorkNet Database
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