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Adoption. Same-sex couples allowed to adopt. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Louisiana may face some legal challenges not experienced by non- LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Louisiana as a result of the US Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas.
Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. Lloyd–La Follette Act (1912) Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. No-FEAR Act. Voting Rights Act of 1965. Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.
Federal law prohibits discrimination in a number of areas, including recruiting, hiring, job evaluations, promotion policies, training, compensation and disciplinary action. State laws often extend protection to additional categories or employers. Under federal employment discrimination law, employers generally cannot discriminate against ...
Louisiana is suing President Joe Biden to block new U.S. Department of Education rules issued that include protections for LGBTQ students by clarifying that Title IX forbids discrimination based ...
1970s. In 1970, the Gay Liberation Front of New Orleans was formed. In 1971, members of the Front presented a "Gay In" picnic in February in City Park. It would not become openly known as a "gay pride" event until 1978, when the pride events became the annual Gay Pride New Orleans. In 1972, the Tulane University Gay Students Union was established.
The Louisiana Constitution is legally named the Constitution of the State of Louisiana and commonly called the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, [ 1 ][ 2 ] and the Constitution of 1974. The constitution is the cornerstone of the law of Louisiana ensuring the rights of individuals, describing the distribution and power of state officials and local ...
In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial sexual relations. Some of these laws predated the establishment of the United States, and some dated to the later 17th or early 18th century, a century or more after the complete racialization of ...
Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which held that systematically excluding women from a venire, or jury pool, by requiring (only) them to actively register for jury duty violated the defendant's right to a representative venire. [1] The court overturned Hoyt v.