Gay ex-miner now manages ‘hate-free’ Dollar General

The Charleston (WV) Gazette
Monday, November 3, 2014
Gay ex-miner now manages ‘hate-free’ Dollar General
By Kate White, Staff writer

Ex-coal miner Sam Hall, who sued the mine where he used to work after he said he was harassed for being gay, now manages the Dollar General store in Pinch, where he implemented a no-hate policy.

Managing the Dollar General store in Pinch doesn’t pay as much as Sam Hall made while he was a coal miner. “It’s OK” though, he said, “it pays the bills.”

Hall, who sued his former employer claiming supervisors didn’t stop miners from harassing him over being gay, now implements a no-hate policy at his workplace.

“So if anybody uses any kind of derogatory language, in any shape or form, I put them out of the store and say, ‘Don’t come back,’ ” Hall, 32, said....

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