Newsstand - SkyWest accused of bias against gay couples

A SkyWest Airlines baggage agent who married his partner last year after the California Supreme Court legalized same-sex unions says the airline is breaking state law by refusing to give his husband the free fares it provides to heterosexual spouses.

The airline says Gilbert Caldwell's husband is his "travel companion," entitled to fly at a discount but not for free, Caldwell said. "I am asking SkyWest to give me the same benefits that they give my married heterosexual co-workers."

The case is one of the first discrimination complaints to surface by any of the 18,000 same-sex couples who married in California before the November 2008 passage of Proposition 8, which amended the state Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/31/BAPV1ACLGV.DTL&feed=rss.news

French Railways, whose boss is notoriously gay, only recently offered couple rates to (customers) gay couples. And I am not even quite sure that employees companions have the same benefits than heterosexual husbands and wives.

French Railways, whose boss is notoriously gay
I don't see how someone can be "notoriously straight," so tell me, please: how can someone be "notoriously gay?"

I don't see how someone can be "notoriously straight," so tell me, please: how can someone be "notoriously gay?"

no offence in my words
just wanted to say that it is known widely

no offence in my words
just wanted to say that it is known widely
Ah, okay. Perhaps you mean "famously" gay, right? Notorious has very negative connotations. ^

I hope SkyWest decides to amend its policy to stop this discrimination based on sex or even on marital status.

Ah, okay. Perhaps you mean "famously" gay, right? Notorious has very negative connotations. ^

Only for negative people!!!:rolleyes:

Only for negative people!!!:rolleyes:

Notorious has negative connotations, as defined by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

no·to·ri·ous (n-tôr-s, -tr-)
adj.
Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous: a notorious gangster; a district notorious for vice.
[From Medieval Latin ntrius, well-known, from Latin ntus, known, past participle of nscere, to get to know; see gn- in Indo-European roots.]
no·tori·ous·ly adv.
no·tori·ous·ness n.

http://www.tfd.com/notorious

Only for negative people!!!:rolleyes:
I suspect you might be implying that I am a negative person. That is far from the case. The word "notorious" is quite pejorative by defintion.

I hope SkyWest decides to amend its policy to stop this discrimination based on sex or even on marital status.

+1. This is just one more step on a long journey.