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5 Jun 2013, 6:06 am
” The report is the result of a coalition of leading LGBT organizations, policy experts and business advocates, including the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), the Center for American Progress (CAP), and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), in partnership with Freedom to Work, National Center for Transgender Equality, National Partnership for Women and Families, Out and Equal Workplace Advocates, and SEIU. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 3:15 pm
Restrooms have been center stage in prior civil rights fights, including for African-Americans, for men and women around the Equal Rights Amendment, in the context of fighting for access for people living with disabilities, and during the peak of the AIDS crisis, when homophobia fed fears of gay people using restrooms. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 3:08 pm
Additionally, a recent survey of more than 6,000 transgender individuals conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force found "significant levels of housing instability for transgender people. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 11:02 am
The presentation, hosted by the National Training & Technical Assistance Center, is the third Webinar in the “Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges Faced by LGBTQI Youth” series. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 3:56 pm
It seems to me that Justice Gorsuch's statement is technically correct -- the Arkansas Department of Health (1) was okay with giving the named plaintiffs their birth certificates and (2) conceded that in the artificial-insemination context, gay couples can't be treated differently than straight couples (see the Arkansas Supreme Court opinion, footnote 1 and page 18) -- but it's either confusing, at best, or misleading and disingenuous, at worst (the view of Shannon Minter of the… [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 5:38 am
The suit was brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the law firm of Faegre & Benson on behalf of gay and lesbian students in the district who claim to have suffered severe bullying. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 7:09 am
“The administration’s proposal to eliminate a major civil rights agency is a clear-cut assault on equal pay and equal opportunity for working people,” said Emily Martin, General Counsel and Vice President for Workplace Justice at the National Women’s Law Center. [read post]
10 Apr 2022, 7:01 am
The far right fights to keep gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, racial equality, and other human rights causes out of national institutions under the banner of fighting “wokeness,” and their approach to the military is no different. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 9:12 am
I was at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) conference last week and there, amid all legal publishing companies and on-line search services in the Exhibitor's Hall, was a table for something called Embryo Connection, which works with the National Embryo Donation Center. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 3:34 pm
” Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, celebrates as she holds a copy of the court order outside of the California State Supreme Court building in San Francisco, May 15, 2008, after the Court ruled in favor of the right for same sex couples to wed. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 9:03 am
European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL) ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) (see also ILGLaw) Lambda Legal (“national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work”) The National LGBT Bar Association (Lavender… [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 1:30 pm
Fortunately, the ban was dealt a blow last week when Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the federal district court of Washington, D.C. put the directives on hold in a lawsuit brought by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Advocates & Defenders. [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 9:06 am
Joel Anderson, is supported by a diverse group of companies and organizations, including: Adobe ACLU of California Apple Asian Americans Advancing Justice California Newspaper Publishers Association Center for Democracy and Technology Center for Media Justice Centro Legal de la Raza Color of Change Consumer Action Consumer Federation Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dropbox Engine Facebook Foursquare Google Internet Archive LinkedIn Media Alliance Mozilla NameCheap… [read post]
13 Nov 2017, 11:45 am
Due to discrimination in housing, education, employment, and family rejection, 21 percent of transgender women have spent time in jail or prison, according to a 2011 survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 10:30 am
Gates and Jason Ost note that Vermont has the highest concentration of gay and lesbian couples in the nation, (yup, even more than California) and is ranked first in terms of gay/lesbian-supportive laws. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 9:56 am
And famously, just this month, a first-grade class went on a "field trip" to watch its lesbian teacher's wedding in San Francisco.While legal protections for free speech and religious liberty have been a critical component of our nation's core civil rights protections for more than 200 years, laws granting special rights to those engaged in homosexual conduct are the legal "new kid on the block" -- and this new kid is proving to be an… [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 2:13 pm
Macy says that before she even knew about the other person being hired, she ''didn't think something was right'' and contacted the Transgender Law Center, which took her case. [read post]
22 Mar 2013, 7:36 am
We have partnered with the National Center for Lesbian Rights for the litigation, and both organizations have also joined forces with Equality New Mexico and Freedom to Marry on a related public education campaign to help New Mexicans show their neighbors why the freedom to marry is so important. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 5:28 pm
Last weekend, I had the honor of attending Lavender Law, the annual conference of the National LGBT Bar Association. [read post]
28 May 2009, 4:55 am
And even more good news.Mariela Castro, who runs Cuba's Center for Sex Education, said she supports the lifting of a ban on lesbians being artificially inseminated.Wonder if Mr. [read post]
