Plaintiff in LGBTQ workplace rights case to speak at Club following oral arguments at Supreme Court, Oct. 8

Gerald Lynn Bostock, the plaintiff in BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga., who was fired from his job as a county child welfare services coordinator when his employer learned he joined a gay recreational softball league, will discuss his case at a National Press Club Headliners press conference at the Club on Oct. 8 immediately following oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court.

This event will take place at 1 p.m. in the Club’s First Amendment Lounge, and is open to credentialed media and members of the National Press Club; however, registration is required. Please click here to register.

Bostock's case is one two to be heard by the Supreme Court to determine whether discrimination against an employee because of sexual orientation constitutes prohibited employment discrimination “because of…sex” within the meaning of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Bostock and his attorneys Brian J. Sutherland and Thomas J. Mew, IV will discuss their case and the fight they have waged on behalf of all LGBTQ people to be free from workplace discrimination.