NCLR is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education.
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NCLR's Blog: Out for Justice
The National Senior Citizens Law Center, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), are working together to raise awareness of the issues facing older...
by Pual Schindler | Gay City News Roughly four dozen LGBT activists and allies turned out on November 19 to protest at Uganda House –– that nation’s permanent mission to the United Nations on Manhattan’s East 45th Street –– voicing their outrage about a draconian proposal to criminalize the promoti...
November 24, 2009 (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) - In a speech to the Commonwealth People’s Forum, Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, says Uganda’s anti-gay Bill must go. Read Stephen Lewis’s speech to the Commonwealth People’s Forum
by Roxana Tiron | The Hill Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) signaled that the much-anticipated hearings examining the possible repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” will likely happen next year. Levin,...
by Marcus Franklin | Associated Press A year ago this month, Lateisha Green, a transgender woman, was shot to death as she sat in a car outside a house party in upstate New York. In July, a Syracuse jury convicted Dwight DeLee of manslaughter as a hate crime...
from the Los Angeles Times Several nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital have personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a lesbian from Washington state who said that a Jackson social worker wouldn’t allow her to be with her dying partner in 2007. ...
by Yusef Najafi | Metro Weekly On Wednesdays, Earline Budd is behind bars. It’s usually from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when the 51-year-old spends her time at the D.C. Department of Corrections. ...
Star-Ledger editorial Democrats who are nervous about political fallout over gay marriage have been making squeaky little noises lately about retreat. Maybe they should take a look at the latest poll, and man up...
by Jody Marksamer | The Hill For more than 20 years, the juvenile justice system has steadily become more punitive in how it treats youth accused of delinquent offenses...
We move closer to a House vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), and Congressmembers still need to hear from their constituents—they need to to get those critical calls and emails from people back home. Today is the day we need to flood Capitol Hill with our calls and our emails. ...
This week two stories collided: The story of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado and the story of Will Phillips. According to the LGBT blog Towleroad, on November 14 the decapitated, dismembered, and burned body of Jorge Steven Lopez was found by the side of the road in Cayey, Puerto Rico...
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The National Center for Lesbian Rights Join the National Call-In Day for Ewuality and call Congress at (202) 224-3121 or email them here: http://bit.ly/2wi0e3. Together we can we put the pressure on, and let Congress know we need ENDA now.
