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The Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network (GALLAN) is a non-profit organization of trade unionists founded in 1987 by Gerry Scoppettuolo, Nancy Marks, and a few other members of Boston's LGBTQ community. GALLAN's main purpose was to support LGBTQ rights and oppose homophobia in the workforce, as well as push its unions to campaign for anti-discriminatory measures and benefits packages. GALLAN started as a series of potluck dinners and discussions, and later hosted events for the community in partnership with labor unions to campaign for LGBTQ rights within the state of Massachusetts. GALLAN helped to form the national organization Pride at Work in 1994, which became a constituency group of The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in 1997.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.library.neu.edu/archives/collect/findaids/m86findprint.htm )〕 Today, GALLAN is considered a local chapter of Pride at Work. ==Mission== In one of their early flyers, GALLAN stated their mission was to raise lesbian and gay issues within organized labor and to bring labor issues to the LGBTQ community at large. The organization believed that both movements could be strengthened by recognizing that homophobia and oppression of working people are linked, and many of the two struggles are intertwined. They listed the similarities between the movements as the following: *specific protection for lesbian and gay workers has been won by many unions in collective bargaining agreements. *gay workers are otherwise protected from arbitrary treatment by employers by "just cause" agreements in union contracts. *employment policies that discriminate against the LGBTQ community hurt all workers by creating divisions, making workers as a class weaker than they need to be. *Many unions such as SEIU and AFSCME have been in the forefront of AISS education and the fight to prevent discriminatory work policies. National gay/labor coalitions have developed and have successfully worked together in Boston, New York and San Francisco to fight against anti-gay and anti-labor initiatives by the Heritage Foundation and the Coors interests.〔GALLANT Mission Statement,1987, Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network Records (M 86), University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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