"West Hollywood's five-person City Council on March 2 unanimously approved advancing a registry of multi-partner domestic relationships. It's the latest of a few cities in the U.S. to pursue legal protection for groups of more than two adults living in a single household who are romantically or otherwise committed to one another."
"Such family structures, experts say, can face systemic barriers in housing, healthcare, education and other services where existing policies often assume dual income or nuclear households."
"In the meantime, the council outlawed discrimination against polyamorous people and others in nontraditional family structures, such as multigenerational immigrant households. The anti-discrimination law, which adds family or relationship structure as a protected class in the city alongside race, religion, gender and other categories, was finalized Monday."
West Hollywood's City Council unanimously approved advancing a registry for multi-partner domestic relationships in March, making it one of few U.S. cities pursuing legal protection for groups of more than two adults in romantic or committed relationships. Polyamorous individuals like librarian Megan Katz face systemic barriers in housing, healthcare, education, and other services where policies assume dual-income or nuclear households. While implementation remains months away pending a task force review, the council simultaneously enacted an anti-discrimination law protecting polyamorous people and nontraditional family structures, including multigenerational immigrant households. This law adds family or relationship structure as a protected class alongside race, religion, and gender.
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