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LGBT flyers in San Francisco are being urged to boycott Emirates Airlines, which has just launched a nonstop service between Dubai and San Francisco.

Emirates bans openly gay male flight attendants from its fleet, and women must be below a certain weight and take compulsory beauty and etiquette training. If an unmarried woman becomes pregnant, she is fired.

All contractors doing business with San Francisco must sign a declaration that they don’t discriminate on race, sexual orientation or religious grounds.

However, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Emirates is able to take advantage of a loophole in the law as the anti-discrimination law only applies to how companies operate in the USA. While ticket agents in the airport would be covered by the law, flight attendants arriving from Dubai would be exempt.

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