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mockmonkey

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4. Wisconsin First in the Nation

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Aug 4, 2021, 07:23 PM

Aug 2021

"On February 25, 1982 Wisconsin governor Lee Dreyfus signed into law a bill that made it illegal for state or private businesses to discriminate based on sexual orientation in employment and housing. Wisconsin became the first state in the nation to enforce such a law at the state level. It would be nine more years before another state would adopt such protections, making Wisconsin an early leader in protecting the rights of LGBTQ persons."

https://www.mpl.org/blog/now/first-in-the-nation-wisconsin-s-gay-rights-law

Gov. Dreyfus was a Republican. Times sure have changed.

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