BY SUSAN ESTRICH That’s what it was called back in 1979, when Paul Tsongas, the freshman senator from Massachusetts, introduced a bill to amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add sexual orientation to the list [which already included race, religion and sex] of things you couldn’t [absent narrow exceptions] base employment decisions on. Even my boss at the time, Senate Judiciary Chair Ted Kennedy, didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor. […]
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