LGBT Civil Rights and Activism

That upon discovering I reported anonymously. This was about 9 years ago. It took some time, but it did get investigated and everyone in our department got a wage review. It was very revealing the favoritism the boss I reported had that had made tremendous pay hikes and starting wages to her drinking-buddy staff members, many of whom had less than one years experience (!) being paid well above 10 and 20 year experienced staff.
A few years later, the boss was replaced by someone even worse. The new boss did actually manage to sweep all LGBT out the door drumming up false bullshit about all of us, then threatening to fire us if we didn't quit. It was so obviously cut and dried discrimination she would have had the EEOC right down her throat about it.
Except that this all occurred in drop-dead red Arizona, where the new supermajority conservatives had cut the EEOC staff so drastically there are now several years of cases backed up.
Both my other colleagues, one lesbian and one transgender just let it go and have moved on to better working conditions anyway. But it's a really sore bruise left, and the second job in my lifetime I've been unfairly bullied out of because I'm openly gay.
I dropped my Arizona licensure and will never work in that state again unless drastic shift of the draconian conservative politics occurs.