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Illinois established civil unions on June 1, 2011, after Governor Quinn signed legislation on January 31, 2011. The law allows both same-sex and opposite-sex couples to form civil unions and provides state recognition of substantially similar legal relationships, including same-sex marriages and civil unions, entered into in other jurisdictions.
The original Equality Act was developed by U.S. Representatives Bella Abzug (D-NY) and Ed Koch (D-NY) in 1974. The Equality Act of 1974 (H.R. 14752 of the 93rd Congress) sought to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and marital status in federally assisted programs, housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage ...
State law recognizes the non-genetic, non-gestational mother as a legal parent to a child born via donor insemination, irrespective of the marital status of the parents. [41] Under the Illinois Gestational Surrogacy Act, gestational surrogacy contracts are legal. When parties enter into a surrogacy agreement that complies with the state statute ...
Equality Illinois is a 501(c)(4) organization and has educational and political action affiliate organizations. [2] The Equality Illinois Institute, a 501(c)(3) educational organization affiliated with Equality Illinois, focuses on the educational and charitable aspects of EI's mission.
State equal rights amendments and original constitutional equal rights provisions: [9] [10] Alaska – No person is to be denied the enjoyment of any civil or political right because of race, color, creed, sex or national origin. The legislature shall implement this section. Alaska Constitution, Article I, §3 (1972)
Minnesota became the first state to ban employment discrimination based on both sexual orientation and gender identity when it passed the Human Rights Act in 1993. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Currently, 25/50 states, the District of Columbia , and at least 400 cities and counties have enacted bans on discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender ...
Myra Colby Bradwell (February 12, 1831 – February 14, 1894) was an American publisher and political activist.She attempted in 1869 to become the first woman to be admitted to the Illinois bar to practice law, but was denied admission by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1870 and the United States Supreme Court in 1873, in rulings upholding a separate women's sphere. [1]
The Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that administers the Illinois Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination with respect to employment, financial credit, public accommodations and real estate transactions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), national origin, ancestry, military ...