CA parks agency settles lesbian harassment suit

(San Diego) The California Department of Parks and Recreation is forming a task force to address equality issues for its women and gay employees.

Parks officials said Thursday the move is part of a settlement with a lesbian park ranger who filed a harassment lawsuit in San Diego County.

Jennifer Donovan claimed …

Minn. school district settles gay harassment suit

A school district in Minnesota agreed to pay a $25,000 settlement to a high school junior who was subjected to harassment by two teachers around his perceived sexual orientation, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports.

Teacher Diane Cleveland commented that the boy’s “fence swings both ways”; when he wrote a paper on Ben …

Gay Twins Win Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Jed and Wyatt Lorenzen, openly gay twins who were hired as servers by Los Feliz restaurant Vermont in 2005, today won their sexual harassment suit against the eatery’s owners, another pair of openly gay men, Manuel Mesta and Michael Gelzhiser. Following a nine-day trial, each of the twins was awarded a paltry $1,000 for damages, begging the question of whether anyone really came out of the suit a winner.

In interviews the twins have claimed that Jed was fired from his waitstaff position for turning down sexual advances, while Wyatt was forced to abandon his job when the instances of sexual harassment had gone too far. They claim that the harassment went on repeatedly for more than a year, consisting of not only sexually explicit language but inappropriate touching during a restaurant Halloween party. MORE

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New York Knicks Center Slapped With Shocking Sex Harassment Lawsuit By Male Driver

Knicks center Eddy Curry was slapped with a shocking sex-harassment suit Monday by his former driver, who claims the 6-foot-11 hoopster tried to solicit gay sex from him.

The stunning court papers claim Curry, a married father of three, repeatedly approached chauffeur David Kuchinsky “in the nude,” allegedly telling him, “Look at me, Dave, look” and “Come and touch it, Dave.”

Curry also made Kuchinsky perform “humiliating tasks outside the scope of his employment, such as cleaning up and removing dirty towels [Curry had ejaculated into] so that his wife would not see them,” the Manhattan federal court suit says.

Kuchinsky, who is straight and Jewish, also alleges racial discrimination, saying that Curry hurled slurs at him including “f—ing Jew,” “cracker,” “white slave,” “white devil” and “grandmaster of the KKK.”