The United States Department of Labor has announced a date that it will honor three LGBTQ+ people who fought for equal rights in the workplace and won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling three years ago. Gerald Bostock, Aimee Stephens, and Donald Zarda were the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case Bostock v. Clayton County, where the justices in 2020 ruled 6-3 that LGBTQ+ people are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on account of sex. Stephens and Zarda will be honored posthumously. The labor department will be honoring the trio by adding them to the Labor Hall of Honor on Wednesday, October 18, at 1 p.m. at the department's Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C. Before the Bostock decision, anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ workers consisted of a patchwork of laws and regulations that varied from state to state, and over half of the states offered no protections to LGBTQ+ workers. By winning the employment discrimination cases before the Supreme Court after years of litigation, these three plaintiffs extended workplace protections for millions of LGBTQ+ workers across the country. #Queer Up The USA View