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20 Feb 2012, 6:00 am by jleaming@acslaw.org
by Jeremy Leaming While some lawmakers and politicians are working to end a few of the nation’s inequalities, like the one centering on the right of gays and lesbians to wed, others are keeping up the ignoble work of trying to hobble or defeat efforts to advance equality. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 1:54 am
In a brief filed with the California Supreme Court late in the day, the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund accused the National Center for Lesbian Rights and other pro-gay legal organizations of improperly attacking the people's ability to amend the state Constitution. [read post]
14 Jan 2010, 8:34 pm by ireneolszewski
Pam arranged an exclusive analysis of the California gay marriage trial with Shannon Minter of the National Center For Lesbian Rights (NCLR). [read post]
10 May 2012, 5:01 pm by nflatow
By Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project Director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Though garnering less attention than North Carolina's disheartening constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage and President Obama's monumental announcement to support same-sex marriage, another recent piece of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) news deserves significant attention. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 4:14 am
04/09/09 AP (posted to The Herald, South Carolina):Shannon Price Minter is legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and particpated in the oral arguments in the Prop. 8 litigation.Minter said Iowa's ruling "was important to California in two ways. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 11:22 am
Schwarzenegger et al., (N.D.Cal. 3:09-cv-02292, filed May 22, 2009)]06/19/09 SF Chronicle:Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and lawyer for same-sex couples in the state court case, said Friday that his organization may take the same step. [read post]
In fact, the largest national survey of transgender people to date, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, found that that about one-fifth of all transgender adults are veterans, making transgender people approximately twice as likely as others to serve in the military. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 8:04 pm
The high court denied, without comment (pdf), the writ of mandate filed by Prop 8 foes, which included the San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 12:09 pm by Irene C. Olszewski, Esq.
For a detailed fact sheet that will answer the above questions specifically (as well as others), download Summary of State Laws Regarding Same-Sex Couples published by the National Center for Lesbian Rights. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 5:19 pm
” From Robin West, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center: “Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians presents an exhaustive survey of legal issues that might impact upon the lives of gay and lesbian citizens from cradle to grave, including the law surrounding adoption, parenting, and custody problems, discrimination on the job and at school, marriage rights and rites, service in the military, sufferance of verbal and physical abuse, and… [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 10:21 am
In 1999, Pride Law Fund created the Tom Steel post-graduate fellowship to fund a recently licensed lawyer for a full year of work on a project addressing the needs of the LGBT community.Previous fellowships have funded work on impact litigation in the areas of employment, education and family law; developing legislative/educational strategies on the issues of privacy and sodomy law reform; developing legal materials to assist clients with family law questions; documenting sexual orientation and HIV… [read post]
11 Mar 2016, 11:44 am by Dan Ernst
[This Sunday many PBS stations will air the latest episode of the Miller Center for Public Affairs’ American Forum series, this one with Risa Goluboff on her new book, Vagrant Nation. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 8:09 am by jarogeti
Johnson will be joined by Maya Rupert, the Federal Policy Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 8:14 am
" At the "Constitution Daily" blog of the National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston has a post titled "Workplace rights broadened for gays and lesbians. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
But beginning in that decade, African Americans and other civil rights activists, communists, labor union activists, poor people, Beats and hippies, gay men and lesbians, women, Vietnam War protestors and student activists, and young, urban minority men all contested their constitutionality. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 10:59 am
GLBT National Help Center: links to information and to hotlines: talkline for youth (1-800-246PRIDE) and GLBT hotline (1-800-THE-GLNH) Human Rights Campaign. [read post]
 So the ACLU, along with our partners at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, filed an administrative challenge to the NCD, arguing that the rule is inconsistent with current medical science. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 3:07 pm
  It’s an astonishing gap that puts the U.S. behind the curve on the world stage when it comes to civil rights protections.But one legislative initiative is putting these issues front and center on the national agenda. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 1:13 pm
The changes are being made in response to a demand letter by American Civil Liberties Union and the National Center for Lesbian Rights on behalf of a lesbian who was barred from visiting her partner and giving advice about her treatment at the hospital. [read post]