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This is the first direct action taken against a company by a LGBT group in San Antonio’s history.
Direct Action Network of San Antonio (DANSA), co-founded by Jason Morris, the popular LGBT blogger of JaySays.com, helped organize the action, against Exxon, which has long-standing employment policies that discriminate against LGBT employees.
DANSA brought together LGBT activists of Get Equal’s Mark Reed and Get Equal Now co-founder C.D. Kirven to protest during San Antonio’s pride weekend to increase visibility of ENDA related issues.
“We united against Exxon today to help put a stop to LGBT workplace bigotry. We are partners in the fight to achieve civil rights for the LGBT community and boycotting the homophobic policies of Exxon is an important part of that fight.” This is not only a GET EQUAL effort or GET EQUAL NOW effort, it is a community wide effort to eliminate several decades of legal discrimination. This is about LGBT independence on independence day!” said C.D. Kirven co-founder of Get Equal Now on joining her close friend and fellow LGBT rights activist Mark Reed at DANSA’s Exxon protest.Photo by C.D. Kirven of DANSA’s Exxon protest on July 4, 2010
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The importance of ENDAI’m friends with some of these people on Facebook, so I get a little extra information on this stuff when they post something about it. Apparently Exxon told them, point-blank, that if it were the law in the US that they couldn’t discriminate against LGBT people (i.e. if ENDA were passed), then they wouldn’t, as they don’t in countries that already do have anti-discrimination policies. This is a shining example of how important it is that we GetENDA.