Editing Polyamory (section)

===Anti-discrimination law===
People in polyamorous relationships sometimes receive punishment at work when they are open about their relationships.<ref name="Goldstein">{{cite news |title=Somerville celebrates another first for polyamorous people |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/23/lifestyle/somerville-celebrates-another-first-polyamorous-people/ |author=Meredith Goldstein |date=March 23, 2023 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |access-date=March 24, 2023 |archive-date=March 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324234803/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/23/lifestyle/somerville-celebrates-another-first-polyamorous-people/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2010, Ann Tweedy, a legal scholar, argued that polyamory could be considered a sexual orientation under existing [[Law of the United States|United States law]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tweedy |first1=Ann |date=October 2011 |title=Polyamory as a sexual orientation |url=https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=uclr |journal=University of Cincinnati Law Review |volume=79 |issue=4 |pages=1461–1515 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-date=August 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824042848/https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=uclr |url-status=live }}</ref> This argument was opposed by Christian Keese, who wrote in 2016 that advocating a "sexual orientation model of polyamory is likely to reduce the complexity and transformative potential of poly intimacies," while also limiting the reach and scope of possible litigation, obstructing the ability of poly activists to form alliances with other groups, and increasing the possibility that poly activists will have to settle for legal solutions which are "exclusive and reproductive of a culture of privilege".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Keese |first1=Christian |date=2016 |title=Marriage, Law and Polyamory. Rebutting Mononormativity with Sexual Orientation Discourse? |url=http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/viewFile/734/960 |journal=Oñati Socio-legal Series |volume=6 |issue=6 |page=1348 |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-date=April 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422221600/http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/viewFile/734/960 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In March 2023, the city of [[Somerville, Massachusetts]] passed an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against polyamorous people in employment and policing.<ref name="Goldstein" />

In April 2024, [[Oakland City Council]] passed legislation banning discrimination based on family and relationship structure in businesses, civil services, and housing.<ref name="McClurg 2024">{{cite news |last=McClurg |first=Lesley |title=Polyamorous families are recognized and protected in Oakland, CA |website=NPR |date=2024-05-31 |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/nx-s1-4966296/polyamorous-families-are-recognized-and-protected-in-oakland-ca |access-date=2024-06-01}}</ref>

In May 2024, [[Berkeley, California]] passed a law banning discrimination on the basis of relationship and family structure in businesses, city services, and housing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/05/22/berkeley-law-antidiscrimination-relationship-family-structure-polyamory|title=Berkeley law extends legal protections to polyamorous people and non-nuclear families|first=Ally|last=Markovich|date=May 22, 2024|website=Berkeleyside}}</ref>