What You Need to Know

• The incidence of monkeypox among gay and bisexual men raises concerns among some lawyers about an uptick in harassment and discrimination.
• Some types of adverse actions related to monkeypox are covered by New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination, but others might not be.
• Health care employers could be most vulnerable to monkeypox lawsuits because of the hazards of caring for patients with the virus.

While scientists are still learning how the monkeypox virus is transmitted, some employment lawyers are raising a warning about the potential for discrimination and harassment claims stemming from the virus’s link to gay and bisexual men.

Those employment lawyers say they haven’t given much thought to monkeypox, but others see the potential that fear of the virus will prompt an uptick in anti-gay harassment and discrimination. They see parallels to the ostracism that gay men faced in the early days of the AIDS epidemic and the harassment directed at Asian Americans during COVID-19.

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