Until this U.S. Supreme Court case, sexual orientation was not considered by the courts to be a protected category along with race, national origin, religion, and sex under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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The case that established sexual orientation as a protected category under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia in 2020. Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College in 2017 established that discrimination based on sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination, and Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, Virginia in 2021 dealt with transgender rights. However, only Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia established sexual orientation as a protected category under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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