{"id":47190,"date":"2012-05-09T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47190"},"modified":"2012-05-09T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:48:39","slug":"laws-addressing-sexual-orientation-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/09\/laws-addressing-sexual-orientation-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws Addressing Sexual Orientation, by State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I stumbled upon a really great interactive graphic posted by the <em>Guardian<\/em> that summarizes the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/interactive\/2012\/may\/08\/gay-rights-united-states?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\"> degree to which a number of rights and benefits are available to gays and lesbians in the U.S.<\/a>, by state. Each state is represented as a segment radiating out from the center of the circle; each colored ring represents a particular right, benefit, or protection:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/states.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-47191\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/states-500x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/states-500x477.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/states.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Light blue = whether state has a law addressing discrimination or bullying in the school system<\/li>\n<li>Purple = state-level hate-crime laws<\/li>\n<li>Pink = protection against housing discrimination<\/li>\n<li>Green = protection against employment discrimination<\/li>\n<li>Blue = right to adopt (lighter shade indicates individuals are allowed; darker shade means gay and lesbian couples are allowed to jointly adopt)<\/li>\n<li>Yellow = right to visit partner in the hospital<\/li>\n<li>Red = marriage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The different shades indicate differences in the scope of coverage (say, full marriage rights vs. domestic partnership &#8212; and it has been updated to reflect yesterday&#8217;s passage of the bill outlawing same-sex marriage in North Carolina &#8212; or whether a law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation but not gender identity); the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/interactive\/2012\/may\/08\/gay-rights-united-states?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guardian<\/em> website<\/a> explains each issue. Their post also allows you to hover over a state and get a more detailed summary. Here&#8217;s the info for Nevada, for instance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/NV.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-47192\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/NV-500x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/NV-500x351.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/NV.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The graphic also lets you scale states by population if you want to get a better sense of the proportion of the U.S. population living in areas that do or do not provide these protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I stumbled upon a really great interactive graphic posted by the Guardian that summarizes the degree to which a number of rights and benefits are available to gays and lesbians in the U.S., by state. Each state is represented as a segment radiating out from the center of the circle; each colored ring represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8080,272,85,54,76],"class_list":["post-47190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-housingresidential-segregation","tag-marriagefamily","tag-politics","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47193,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47190\/revisions\/47193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}