The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/p>\nEleven of the locations are in nine states – Florida, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia – that have not passed comprehensive legal protections for people based on their sexuality or gender.<\/p>\n
Some additionally restrict adoption rights for gay couples, bar transgender people from using the bathrooms of their choice or banned cities from instituting equal rights protections of their own.<\/p>\n
Bezos has been an ardent defender of gay rights for years. He and his wife, MacKenzie, donated $2.5 million in 2012 in support of same-sex marriage in Washington State and he received a national equality award last year from the Human Rights Campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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