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15 Sep 2017, 7:24 am by Mary Bonauto
Bonauto is the Civil Rights Project Director at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 11:35 am by Roxanne Minott
The plaintiffs are: A member of the Coast Guard who has drafted a future letter of resignation; An active-duty 20-year member of the Air Force who served two times in Iraq; and Three soldiers in the Army The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) are advocating on their behalf. [read post]
14 May 2017, 5:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
It functions as a support network and advocate for others (i.e., gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered individuals). [read post]
3 May 2017, 10:47 am by MBettman
Due to its initial prevalence in marginalized communities, such as gay men, HIV/AIDS has developed a stigma giving rise to discrimination and prejudice. [read post]
26 Feb 2017, 12:24 pm by GSU Law Student
EMAIL: nlgatgsu@gmail.com OUTLaw (formerly Lesbian and Gay Law Students Assoc.) [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 7:50 am by Nassiri Law
Additional Resources: A Trump Employee Is Suing for Extreme Anti-Gay Harassment and Discrimination, Oct. 24, 2016, By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate.com More Blog Entries: Lesbian Discrimination Lawsuit Rejected by 7th Circuit, Aug. 6, 2016, LGBT Discrimination Lawyer Blog [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 7:50 am by Nassiri Law
Additional Resources: A Trump Employee Is Suing for Extreme Anti-Gay Harassment and Discrimination, Oct. 24, 2016, By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate.com More Blog Entries: Lesbian Discrimination Lawsuit Rejected by 7th Circuit, Aug. 6, 2016, LGBT Discrimination Lawyer Blog [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
From a first bill by Congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1974, which would have broadly protected gays and lesbians against discrimination across the private sector, to the modern, but narrower Employment Non-Discrimination Act, advocates have lobbied for this change. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Sarah Andropoulos
For decades, courts across the country have grappled with the question of whether and how to address federal claims by lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination related to their sexual orientation. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 4:30 am by SHG
  Lambda Legal put out a press release, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Texas, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Transgender Law Center and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, spinning the loss as best they could: A ruling by a single judge in one circuit cannot and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for… [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 5:25 am by David Kopel
They advocate for the Second Amendment rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and polyamorous persons. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 10:26 am by JB
Look for a revival of Elyish theories that claim that the political process fails women, gays and lesbians, African-Americans, criminal defendants, poor people, and other vulnerable minorities (or, in the case of women majorities). [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 1:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
Gohn, 850 F.2d 361, 362 (8th Cir. 1988), in which a University of Arkansas student group that advocated for gay and lesbian rights (GLSA) was denied funding by the university. [read post]
14 Jan 2016, 11:12 am by Kenneth Vercammen Esq. Edison
Members of the Bar Association tell me more stories of thecountless additional hours of work that must go into representinggays, lesbians, bisexual clients and their families.125At the public hearing on October 24, 2007, Ed Barocas, Legal Director of the American CivilLiberties Union of New Jersey13 stated in unequivocal terms that:By creating a separate system of rights and by injecting languageand titles not understood or easily incorporated into existing reallife events and transactions,… [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
And transgender plaintiffs have been more successful than gay or lesbian plaintiffs because the “gender policing” point is more obvious. [read post]
27 Nov 2015, 9:39 am by Ronald Collins
The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins on the occasion of the publication of Earl Warren and the Struggle for Justice (Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 360), by Wilmington College political science professor Paul Moke. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 9:36 am
Irish-American Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Group of Boston, 515 U.S. 557, 568-570 (1995), are speech under the First Amendment because of the message they convey, so too is a marriage ceremony. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 11:38 am by Kyle Duncan
” Yet, in the same paragraph, the majority goes on to say that, if those people enact their views into law, the “necessary consequence is to … demean[] or stigmatize[]” gays and lesbians. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 7:17 am by Paul Smith
  The first is over whether it was right for the Court, in Lawrence, to strike moral disapproval from the list of potential state justifications for discrimination against gay and lesbian people and couples. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 5:58 pm by Steve Sanders
  In most states, the political majority that denied marriage to gays and lesbians over the past two decades has now evaporated. [read post]