ENDA: A separate water fountain for LGBT people
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Guest Blogger
August 30, 2010 11:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/08/enda_a_separate_water_fountain_for_lgbt_people.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/08/enda_a_separate_water_fountain_for_lgbt_people.php)
After correctly listing that in 1974, NY Congress people introduced a bill to directly amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to add "sex, sexual orientation and marital status," the timeline then makes a misleading connection to that strategy. Here's the too-clever transition moment in the timeline:
"1994 -- The modern version of the Civil Rights Amendment, now called the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), is introduced with gay-only protection without public accommodations or housing provisions."