Last Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear three cases that seek to determine whether existing federal law bans workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Although marriage equality enables one to legally marry a partner of the same sex, it could get you fired - even denied housing.
Federal courts have been divided on the question of whether Title VII bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Two of the cases that the Supreme Court plans to take up are cases of employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
As currently constituted, the Supreme Court appears likely to resolve the contradictions by ruling that the Civil Rights Act does not ban discrimination against L.G.B.T. people.
This would be a tragic set back that could take years or possibly generations to undo.
Selected excerpt(s), photo and linked article courtesy of Masha Gessen, The New Yorker