"How Corporate America Became A Major LGBT Ally"

huffingtonpost.com

"Corporate America has emerged as a powerful ally in the fight against a series of bills that threaten to roll back strides made toward LGBT equality.

Support has grown rapidly since 2008, when just five businesses came out to oppose California’s Prop 8 referendum that overturned marriage equality in the state. Last year, ahead of the Supreme Court’s ruling that led to federal recognition of same-sex marriages, nearly 400 companies signed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the plaintiff.

In it, they argued that 'allowing same-sex couples to marry improves employee morale and productivity, reduces uncertainty, and removes the wasteful administrative burdens imposed by the current disparity of state law treatment.' 

Over the past year, broad corporate coalitions have quashed legislation in Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana and Georgia that discriminated against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people."