More Than 100 Tech Leaders Urge Legal Nondiscrimination LGBT Protections

CEA President Gary Shapiro, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell are among the more than 100 tech leaders who have signed their names to a statement urging legislators to add nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people to civil rights laws, the Human Rights Campaign said Monday in a blog post. The statement was “launched last week in response to a host of anti-LGBT bills pending or signed into law in states around the country,” and “technology leaders from coast to coast continue to sign on with their support in this historic call to action,” the HRC said. More than 100 anti-LGBT bills “have been introduced in state legislatures this year alone,” it said. “These tech leaders are unified in shifting lawmakers’ focus away from divisive and discriminatory policies to passing comprehensive non-discrimination protections for LGBT people.”