The State - News from July 9, 1989
A San Francisco court has approved payments to 205 homosexual men and women as part of the $3.5-million settlement reached in 1986 with Pacific Bell in an anti-gay job discrimination case. Each plaintiff will receive anywhere from a few thousand dollars to $80,000, depending on how the awards are meted out by a court-appointed arbitrator, said Leonard Graff of National Gay Rights Advocates, the law firm that filed the class-action suit in 1975. The case represents the largest anti-gay job discrimination case in the nation, Graff said.
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