San Francisco soon will be asking city job applicants and employees to confidentially and voluntarily share their sexual orientation and gender identity information.
Mayor London Breed late Friday signed an ordinance amending a 1985 law designed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees and applicants from potential discrimination. At that time, the legislation said, “the larger population often assumed that any member of the LGBTQ+ community might be living with HIV/AIDS, and HIV/AIDS had a tremendous stigma attached to it.”
The amendment reflects shifting perceptions and laws based on HIV status, sexual orientation, and gender identity, the ordinance said. ...
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