With regard to your second paragraph, I think we're pretty darned good
on the LGB and Q front. The "T" probably still has a ways to go. I'm not sure what the "+" means, so we may or many not be good on that front.
Gay singles and couples in this country earn more than their straight counterparts and married gay couples considerably more than their married straight counterparts. Sexual orientation is still not a protected class at the federal level (although many states have such formal protections), but if there's some systematic bigotry against gays in the workplace, it's not showing up in opportunity and income data. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a single company in the Fortune 500 that doesn't have a formal HR policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. Gay marriage has recognized as the law of the land since 2015, and while we were late to the game with this, we were/are ahead of Germany (recognized gay marriage starting in 2017) and Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Greece, Monaco, etc that still do not recognize gay "marriage" (although I think they all have some sort of domestic partner agreements)
I think most of society under the age of 60 is fairly accepting of gays, and the old farts are going to be old farts, but are a shrinking part of the population.
Maybe I'm naive, but I think we've come just an unbelievably long way as a country / society with acceptance of homosexuality in just the last 20 years.
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Posted: 07/10/2019 at 09:55AM