For more information, and to join the discussion listserv, contact
Anne Befu at cochairnlgqc(at)gmail.com.
Solomon Amendment
NLG law school chapters and other Guild members are actively involved
in the campaign against the Solomon Amendment, which is a Congressional
attack on schools that have enforced their non-discrimination policies
against the military. In January 2004, the NLG joined other groups
in an amicus brief in support of a challenge to the law.
Goodridge Amicus Brief
The NLG LGBT Committee is among 35 organizations (including the
NLG Massachusetts Chapter) that presented an amicus brief on January
12, 2004, to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The legislature
has asked the court to decide whether a civil unions system would
cure the constitutional violations in the marriage statute that
the court found in Goodridge v. Department of Pub. Health, 440 Mass.
309 (2003). In this brief, "Amici write to make the independent
point that creating a separate status for a group of people when
there is no legitimate reason for doing so is inherently unequal,
and therefore unconstitutional." Read
the Brief.
Coors Boycott Resources
Coors
Boycott Action Alert
NLG
LGBT Committee Article re: Coors Boycott
LGBT
Paper in Colorado refuses to run Coors Boycott ad
Transgender Resources
The 2001 (Murray Scheel) and the 2002 (Claire Eustace) Thomas Steel
Summer Law Student Interns worked on Protocols For The Treatment
of Transgender Persons by San Francisco County Jail. Information
here.
At the NLG National Convention on October
13, 2001, the LGBT Committee presented a panel on transgender employment
issues, and our Thomas Steel Summer Law Student Intern, Murray Scheel,
presented protocols for transgender people in the criminal justice
system. Phyllis Frye, attorney from Houston, TX, spoke on both prison
and employment issues. Ms. Frye has a website that includes a law
review article on Employment Law for Transgenders. transgenderlegal.com
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