Not a gay story, but the California Supreme Court has ruled that a manager who has consensual affairs with subordinates can create a work climate that constitutes sexual harassment for uninvolved employees. The state attorney general's office said the decision "tells employers that having an anti-nepotism policy is not enough. You need to do more to make sure that you have a hostility-free work environment, even when employees are having consensual sexual relationships."
Others see this as yet another opening of the floodgates for class-action lawsuits against companies, to the ever-increasing enrichment of the trial lawyers' lobby. And another way that the government is increasingly regulating sexual life - not because of the religious right, but in response to the cultural left.
At one time, professors routinely dated (and often married)
students; now it's verboten. The same is rapidly happening in the
workplace. Except if it's in a Democratic White House.