June 30, 2021 (NASHVILLE) – Renowned independent record label Curb Records and the Mike Curb Foundation today رفع دعوى قضائية فيدرالية تحدي قانون جديد في ولاية تينيسي، HB 1182، والذي يتطلب من الشركات نشر إشعار مهين على مقارها إذا كانت لديها سياسات تسمح بالوصول للأفراد المتحولين جنسياً على قدم المساواة مع العملاء الآخرين.

تؤكد الشكوى أن مشروع القانون رقم 1182، الذي يحدد أبعادًا دقيقة، وألوانًا حمراء وصفراء، ولغةً محددة تُعتبر بمثابة لافتة "غير مرحب بها" للزبائن، يُعزز مناخًا معاديًا لمجتمع الميم في الولاية، ويحرمهم من المساواة في الوصول إلى الشركات المفتوحة للجمهور، وكذلك من فرص العمل والتعليم. وتجادل شركة "كيرب ريكوردز" ومؤسسة "مايك كيرب" بأن القانون يُلزمهما، وغيرهما من شركات تينيسي، بتبني مناخ من الخوف وعدم القبول لمجتمع الميم، بما يتعارض مع قيم شركتهما المتمثلة في النزاهة واحترام التنوع وعدم التمييز.

“It’s outrageous to have the government come in and force me to send such a derogatory message to my employees and customers,” said Mike Curb, founder and Chairman of Curb Records and President of the Mike Curb Foundation. “My grandmother Eloisa Salazar faced incredible discrimination as she grew up on the Mexico-U.S. border, and her experience shaped my family’s and my company’s values. Our foundation has been dedicated to inclusion and nondiscrimination, including for LGBT people, from day one. It is hard to believe that our LGBT community in Tennessee is being assaulted with so much harmful legislation, much of it being signed by Governor Lee, at a time when our country needs to come together more than ever before.”

Grammy award-winning record producer Mike Curb started his career almost six decades ago in California and Curb Records has operated for the last three decades in Nashville, Tennessee. The company has launched the careers of numerous successful country, rock, pop, R&B, gospel and Christian rock artists. Curb Records and the Mike Curb Foundation have provided grants and gifts totaling more than $100 million in Tennessee in support of education, historic preservation, individuals facing homelessness, and a wide range of civic and charitable endeavors in local Tennessee communities. These projects include the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University, the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University, the Linda and Mike Curb Institute for Advanced Medical Education at St. Thomas Hospital, the Curb Institute for Music at Rhodes College in Memphis, the Fisk University Jubilee Chair, the Curb Victory Hall for homeless veterans and over 100 other Tennessee charities. The Curb entities also own and have restored multiple historic sites across Tennessee including Elvis Presley’s former home in Memphis, RCA Studio B, Columbia Studio A, the Quonset Hut, and the Johnny Cash Collection in Nashville as well as other historic buildings on Nashville’s Music Row.

Mike Curb’s long history in business, philanthropy, and government also includes serving as Acting Governor and elected Lieutenant Governor of California and President of the California state senate. He was a leader in the fight to stop California’s 1978 Briggs Initiative which would have banned gay schoolteachers. Mike Curb also served as co-chair of Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 presidential campaign.

Curb Records and the Mike Curb Foundation are represented in their suit by Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, attorney Abby Rubenfeld, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD).

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