Law and Politics

The LGBT Project brings impact lawsuits in state and federal courts throughout the country— cases designed to have a significant effect on the lives of LGBT people. Extensive and reliable information on discrimination, hate violence, criminal law, Congress, other issues.

Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) is the state’s chief advocacy, education and political organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) is the state’s chief advocacy, education and political organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Positive: A Massachusetts Superior Court ruled that a middle school may not prohibit a transgender student from expressing her gender identity even if that expression does not conform with the sex ascribed to her at birth.

Research project highlighting homicides of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender victims in Minnesota and its border cities.

Contact information, application, and member list for the nonprofit professional organization of judges, attorneys, law students, and affiliated law workers.

"A Westerville couple is fighting to regain custody of their 6-year-old boy, whom they said was taken by social workers because they let the child dress and act like he's a girl," a news story from the Columbus Dispatch. (August 26, 2000)

Summary of existing case law in the U.S., including employment discrimination, parental issues, marriage, immigration, and prison issues; authored by Shannon Minter, senior staff attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights.

ESF is a national grassroots civil rights organization working to achieve LGBT equality. ESF members engage in service-oriented activities in communities typically opposed to equal rights to foster positive dialogue and change toward equality.

Australia-based site with a wide range of topics, many of interest to US users.

Provides services which includes counseling and legal assistance to LGBT youth.