21 years after I was fired for being gay, the Supreme Court finally ruled that’s not okay

The web’s first online action for gay rights started a revolution in how our community uses the internet and how we demand our rights.

A day after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of employment nondiscrimination rights for LGBTQ people, it seems appropriate to tell the story of how my husband, Jerame Davis, our co-worker Matt Owen, and I found a way around the law in 1999 to get a measure of justice after we were all fired because we’re gay.

Along the way, we put out the internet’s first LGBTQ rights action alert, helped kickstart the fight for LGBTQ equality in Indiana by bringing folks together from all over the state, and pushed both Jerame and me into careers in the movement.

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We protested outside the business repeatedly, we generated enough outrage online that their server shut down as thousands of angry emails from LGBTQ people around the nation poured into the home office, and we used the media to spread our message even further.

I’m not allowed to say the name of the business we’re standing in front of for this photo. We signed a settlement agreement with the company and agreed to stop protesting them and telling everyone how much they sucked. In exchange, the company…

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