Alabama gay
Alabama's Equality Profile
Sexual Orientation
of population
fully protected
of population only
partially
protected
- State
Protections - County
Protections - City
Protections - No
Protections - Protections
Banned
Legend
County map only shows areas with full protections for sexual orientation (i.e., discrimination prohibited in private employment, housing, and widespread accommodations)
City and County Numbers:
0 counties out of 67 have an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in private employment, housing, and public accommodations (full protections).
2 cities have an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in private employment, housing, and public accommodations (full protections).
1 municipality, not including those listed above, has an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in private employment, housing, or public accommodations (only partial protections). See table below.
4% of the state population is protected against discrimination based on sexual
Does Alabama have an LGBTQ history?
Posted by Eric Gonzaba
Does Alabama have an LGBTQ history? In her journey guide The Queerest Places: A Guide to Lgbtq+ and Lesbian Historic Sites, Paula Martinac provides readers wonderful descriptions of historical places of interest akin to queer history. She divides her summaries by states from five regions: New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Midwest, the West, and the South. Yet, while Martinac lists eleven states in her Southern chapters, no entries from Alabama are included (one of just five states without any listings).
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Despite this, there does exist a queer history of Alabama, and a rich one at that. Historians own long focused their operate on the epicenters of gay American culture in the last century, principally in the gayborhoods of San Francisco and Fresh York. However, queer experience existed outside the American coasts, even in places commonly caricatured as inhospitable for LGBTQ life, appreciate the American South. To try to more closely understand these histories of the queer American South, our team is currently u
HB - “Don’t Tell Gay” Extension
Background: HB will expand the exclude that was passed in by the Alabama state legislature. Existing legislation prevents classroom instruction on the topics of “sexual orientation or gender identity” “in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards” to public school students in kindergarten to fifth grade. The new law would prohibit all manual on sexual orientation and gender self from kindergarten to eighth grade. For students in ninth through twelfth grade, instruction would still be limited dependent on if the instruction was deemed age or developmentally appropriate.
Our Position: We contradict HB The ACLU of Alabama supports allowing education on inclusive topics prefer sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom. The Don’t Say Male lover bill in Alabama schools already prevents the education on and acceptance of LGBTQ students in classrooms. Expanding this ban from fifth grade to eighth grade and limiting the discussion of the topic in all Alabama schools walks
LGBTQ Rights
The ACLU of Alabama works to create a Alabama free of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This means a Alabama where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) people can live openly, where our identities, relationships and families are respected, and where there is fair treatment on the job, in schools, housing, public places, health care, and government programs.
Since taking its first LGBTQ rights case in , the ACLU has been involved in many high-profile legal challenges to discriminatory laws and policies that impact the LGBTQ community. The ACLU of Alabama recently enjoyed a major victory for LGBTQ rights by challenging and succeeding in overturning the state’s discriminatory law banning gay men and lesbians from adopting.
The ACLU’s LGBTQ rights strategy is based on the belief that fighting for the world we want means not just persuading judges and government officials, but ultimately changing the way world thinks about LGBTQ people. To end discrimination, the ACLU seeks both to change the law and to convince Americans th