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Documenting Discrimination

The Human Rights Campaign launched the Documenting Discrimination project in 1995 to gather first-hand stories about job discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. These stories offer evidence of the current lack of protections for GLBT workers across the country.

Today, HRC is expanding the Documenting Discrimination project to uncover further stories of workplace discrimination and to better communicate these stories, both to policymakers and to the American public.

Send us Your Story
Let the Human Rights Campaign know if you have been discriminated against because you are (or were perceived to be) gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Join the hundreds of other victims of discrimination who are allowing their stories to make the workplace safer for all Americans.

Discrimination Happens Everywhere
The lack of workplace protections for GLBT employees leaves millions of hardworking taxpayers vulnerable to unfair treatment. HRC’s Documenting Discrimination report showcases just a few examples of the discrimination faced by GLBT and straight people in every region of the country:

  • An award-winning Georgia cook who lost her job when her company instituted a blanket policy banning gays and lesbians from employment.
  • A Colorado police officer whose back-up calls went unanswered when her colleagues were told she was a lesbian.
  • A stockbroker who was fired when his Maryland employer learned that he was gay.
  • An employee relations director at a Maine manufacturing company who quit after being told that he would be fired if rumors that he was gay proved to be true.
  • An Oregon pest-control technician who was fired for being gay, even though he had one of the company’s highest sales records.
  • A married, straight Kansas man was refused a teaching job because a school employee alleged that he might be gay.
  • A Detroit postal worker who had been harassed and beaten at work because of his perceived sexual orientation was told by a federal court that, although he had clearly suffered discrimination, “Homosexuality is not an impermissible criteria (sic) on which to discriminate” under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Dillon v. Frank, 959 F2d 403 (6th Cir. 1992)

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