8 Ways Bernie Sanders Has Stood Up For LGBT Equality

From: NewNowNext

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He supports the Equality Act.

You can still be fired simply for being gay or trans in 27 states, but Bernie is a co-sponsor of the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

And if elected president, he says he’d happily sign it into law.

“We’ve got to end LGBT discrimination in the workplace. Vermont did this 22 years ago when it passed one of the first state laws in the country protecting lesbian and gay workers. Congress should have acted long ago, but Republicans have blocked action.”