Photos: Fired for Being Gay

Victoria Gaither

October 08, 2019

Photo Credit: Victoria Gaither

Photo Credit: Victoria Gaither Former National Press Club President Tommy Burr asks Plaintiff Gerald Lynn Bostock about what his experience was like being inside the United States Supreme Court. Bostock was fired from his job as a country child welfare services coordinator when his employer learned he joined a gay recreational softball league. His case made its way to the Supreme Court.

Photo Credit: Victoria Gaither

Photo Credit: Victoria Gaither Gerald Lynn Bostock speaking before members of the press and his supporters about his experience having his discrimination case heard by the United States Supreme Court.

Photo Credit: Victoria Gaither

Gerald Lynn Bostock, the plaintiff named in the case of BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, was fired from his job as a county child welfare services coordinator when his employer learned he joined a gay recreational softball league. Bostock and his attorneys Brian J. Sutherland and Thomas J. Mew, IV discussed their case at a National Press Club Newsmaker event immediately following oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court.