Seattle passes measure to protect non-monogamous people as protected class

City council votes unanimously in favor of bill that also protects multigenerational households Seattle passed a measure Tuesday to extend civil rights protections to non-monogamous people and multigenerational households, and recognize additional sexual orientations and gender identities as protected classes under local law.

The city council voted The ongoing campaign to build thousands of massive data centers for AI will create a “tsunami” of discarded electronics, putting the world on a course to triple its annual generation of toxic e-waste in the next 25 years, a new report projects. in favor of the bill.

As the largest city yet to pass such a law, Seattle joins a growing group of local governments acknowledging non-monogamous and polyamorous people as frequent subjects of housing and workplace discrimination, and in need of commensurate protection. Boston suburbs Cambridge and Somerville, and Berkeley and Oakland in California’s Bay Area, have previously passed similar policies; Seattle is the 10th city to do so.

Advocates say the efforts help local governments serve the many family structures that actually exist, not just the ones that are easy to define.

Read the original report at The Guardian.