guardian.co.uk – Rhoda Feng
On the 41st anniversary of the Stonewall uprising (the touchstone for the gay civil-rights movement), the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) announced new measures providing increased protection to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the rental, sale and financing of housing. Hud Secretary Shaun Donovan asserted that gender identity discrimination is a form of gender discrimination, which is banned by the federal Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act). The act also prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability.