Seattle moves to recognize the rights of polyamorous partners - LGBTQ Nation
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"Chosen family is family," said the author of a City Council proposal.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/66759116

A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee forwarded a proposal to the full council that would amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.”

The protections would apply to employment, housing, business licensure, places of public accommodation, park usage, and “bias-free policing,” according to the proposal.

Seattle would follow Portland, West Hollywood, Berkeley, California, and a handful of other cities in adopting the expanded protections against discrimination. Under the bill, residents facing unfair treatment could file complaints and seek remedy through Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights.

  • Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 days ago

    We don’t recommend going from monogamy to polyamory without having done a lot of work in therapy, and deconstructing societal scripts around relationships, expectations, consent and boundaries.

    That is respecting more boundaries, not just sex, and understanding what is and isn’t a boundary.

    Beings trying to put ‘boundaries’ on what they are allowed to do with other beings for example isn’t actually a boundary it’s just an attempt to control other’s behaviour because they’re afraid of losing them instead of trusting them or realising that beings should be allowed to make their own choices, even if it means against you.

    This may sound doomery in that like they will choose to no longer be with you, but in our experience that is usually caused by holding on too tightly instead of letting beings be free.

    We have been on both ends of the ‘too tightly’ side and it was never nice.