Jordan Palmer (social activist)
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Jordan Palmer (born September 7, 1976) is an American executive, and social activist, notable for for founding several successful American companies (and serving as their chief executive officer) including Merus Holdings Corporation, and the Hotel Ivy lodging chain.
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[edit] Early life
The son of divorced parents, his father, is a chief minister with the Church of Christ though Jordan attended a Methodist boarding school. His relationship with his father ended when he told him he was gay.
[edit] Companies
At 16 Jordan left the small town in Kentucky he was born and raised and moved to Lexington, KY. From there he founded several successful companies including the Hotel Ivy lodging chain. Jordan is currently invested in more than 29 hotels in 3 states.
[edit] Involvement in Gay Rights
In early 2006 Jordan founded Kentucky Equal Rights (later renamed Kentucky Equality Association by majority vote of its members) to advance the interests of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
An advocate for states' rights, the Kentucky Equality Association currently has more than 28,000 members, but the Association’s platform isn’t limited to homosexual issues. The Association also says it fights to “preserve and protect” specific freedom and liberties in the Constitution of Kentucky.
On May 06, 2006 Palmer led members of the Kentucky Equality Association in a protest outside the Governor’s Mansion during the Governor’s Annual Derby Breakfast Celebration.
Governor Ernest Lee Fletcher angered the Federation for Kentucky Equality, Inc. by not vetoing $11 million in funding to the University of the Cumberlands, a Baptist school that expelled a student it learned was gay, and when Fletcher removed protections for LGBT civil servants from an Executive Order signed by his predecessor.
