Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs protections bill in historic LGBTQ+ victory

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D)
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed a bill that adds LGBTQ+ people to the state’s anti-discrimination legislation.

The bill, which passed the state house in a 64 to 45 vote earlier this month, adds the categories of sexual orientation and gender identity to Michigan’s 1976 Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA). The law forbids discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodation within businesses, government buildings, and educational facilities on the basis of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, marital status — and now, LGBTQ+ identity.

LGBTQ+ activists have been trying to get this bill passed for years, but Republicans refused to provide enough support for it. But now that Democrats control both chambers of the state legislature, it passed.

“Michigan is a state where we stand up for people’s fundamental freedoms,” Whitmer said at the signing ceremony. “I am…

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