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Are gender-neutral restrooms accessible in Minneapolis?
Yes.
In 2017, the City of Minneapolis allotted $17,000 to “change signs and make security upgrades, such as new locks, at 62 gender-neutral restrooms at 44 municipality facilities, including department offices, fire and police stations, Widespread Works facilities and city-owned parking ramps,” according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. That article also stated, “The restrooms will be free for anyone to use, and separate men’s and women’s restrooms will carry on to exist.”
Specifically at the Minneapolis Convention Center, all bathrooms include accessible stalls. There are also gender-neutral family bathrooms located on Level Two, Level One and the Drop Level.
In early 2022, a policy report presented by capital staff to the Policy and Government Oversight (POGO) committee “aims to amplify the number of gender-neutral bathrooms in the city by incentivizing more business and property owners to add the facilities.” (MinnPost story)
At MSP Airport, single-use restrooms are located throughout both terminals.
The University of Minnesota provides an all-gender restroom map here: https://gsc.umn.edu/resou As a nonprofit nonprofit dedicated to moving forward gender equity through the law, the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA) is Gender Justice’s favorite statute. The MHRA recognizes and declares that the opportunity to obtain employment, housing, public services, education, and access to public accommodations without discrimination is a civil right. It allows people who have been discriminated against based on their membership in a protected class to sue in order to obtain damages and other backwards-looking relief, along with policy changes and other equitable relief to ensure the discrimination does not continue. Unlike many federal civil rights statutes which govern discrimination only in limited and targeted areas, the MHRA is a one-stop shop for comprehensive discrimination protections. It prohibits not just employment discrimination, but also training and housing discrimination among others. The MHRA is also groundbreaking. In 1993, it became the first state-level anti-discrimination law in the nation to expressly ban discrimination against transgender people. The first city to do so was Minneapolis back in 1975. While there is much to commemorate about concerning civil right Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota, by Stewart VanCleve. Minnesota GLBT Movement Papers (1964-2007), poised by Leo Treadway. Minnesota Committee for Gay and Lesbian Rights Records. Gay and Lesbian Activities in Minneapolis: Photographs.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
MNHS call number: HQ76.3.U52 M683 2012
Correspondence, agendas, bylaws, minutes, financial reports, notes, newsletters, brochures, miscellaneous printed matter, and newspaper clippings collected by Leo Treadway, a leading Minnesota male lover rights activist.
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Board and annual meeting minutes, news clippings, financial data, office logs, correspondence, lobbying files, and other records of an organization formed in 1974 to work for passing local ordinances and state laws guaranteeing rights for gays and lesbians, to combat homophobia and force against gays and lesbians, and to educate the public and legislature about gay and womxn loving womxn issues.
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Views of Gay Pride celebrations, a 1979 meeting with Minneapolis Chief of Police D.R. Dwyer, Tim Campbell'
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