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303 CREATIVE LLC v. ELENIS 

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

three drag queens.”  D’Emilio 231.  “A few minutes later, an 
officer attempted to steer the last of the patrons, a lesbian, 
through the bystanders to a nearby patrol car.”  Id., at 231– 
232.  When she started to struggle, protests erupted.  They
lasted into the night and continued into the next.  News of 
the Stonewall protests “spread rapidly,” and “within a year 
gay liberation groups had sprung into existence on college 
campuses  and  in  cities  around  the  nation.”  Id.,  at  233. 
From there, the path to LGBT rights has not been quick or 
easy.  Nor is it over.  Still, change has come: change in social
attitudes,  in  representation,  and  in  legal  institutions. 
Faderman 535–629. 

One  significant  change  has  been  the  addition  of  sexual
orientation and gender identity to public accommodations 
laws.  State and local legislatures took note of the failure of 
such laws to protect LGBT people and, in response, acted to
guarantee them “all the privileges . . . of any other member
of society.”  Hearings on S. B. 200 before the House Judici-
ary Committee, 66th Gen. Assem., 2d Reg. Sess., 4, 11–12
(Colo.  2008)  (remarks  of  Sen.  Judd).  Colorado  thus 
amended its antidiscrimination law in 2008 to prohibit the 
denial of publicly available goods or services on the basis of 
“sexual  orientation.”  2008  Colo.  Sess.  Laws.  ch.  341,  pp. 
1596–1597.  About half of the States now provide such pro-
tections.8  It is “ ‘unexceptional’ ” that they may do so.  Ante, 
at 13 (quoting Masterpiece Cakeshop, 584 U. S., at ___ (slip
op.,  at  10)).  “These  are  protections  taken  for  granted  by 
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8 See Cal. Civ. Code Ann. §51; Colo. Rev. Stat. §24–34–601; Conn. Gen. 
Stat. §46a–81d; Del. Code Ann., Tit. 6, §4504; Haw. Rev. Stat. §489–3;
Ill.  Comp.  Stat.,  ch.  775,  §5/1–102;  Iowa  Code  §216.7;  Me.  Rev.  Stat. 
Ann.,  Tit.  5,  §4591;  Md.  State  Govt.  Code  Ann.  §20–304;  Mass.  Gen.
Laws, ch. 272, §98; Mich. Comp. Laws §37.2302, as amended; Minn. Stat.
§363A.11;  Nev.  Rev.  Stat.  §651.070;  N. H.  Rev.  Stat.  Ann.  §354–A:17; 
N. J.  Stat.  Ann.  §10:5–12;  N. M.  Stat.  Ann.  §28–1–7;  N. Y.  Civ.  Rights 
Law Ann. §40; Ore. Rev. Stat. §659A.403; R. I. Gen. Laws §11–24–2; Vt. 
Stat.  Ann.,  Tit.  9,  §4502;  Va.  Code  Ann.  §2.2–3904;  Wash.  Rev.  Code 
§49.60.215; Wis. Stat. §106.52.