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    Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

    The American Bar Association's Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI), as one of the four ABA Goal III Entities, leads the Association's commitment to diversity, inclusion and full and equal participation by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the Association, legal profession, and society.  

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    Deadline Extended to May 7th | Help SOGI reach Scholarship Matching Challenge Goal!

    LGBTQ+ Public Interest Scholarship funds

    An anonymous donor has pledged $10,000 as a matching challenge! Your contribution today will double our total to $20,000, enabling us to fund four LGBTQ+ Public Interest Scholarships. These scholarships will support students dedicated to advancing LGBTQ+ rights and issues. Join us in this important effort and visit our page for details on how to give. Together, we can make a meaningful impact!

    LGBTQ+ Public Interest Scholarship - More Info

    Deadline for Applications extended to May 7th

    LGBTQ+ Public Interest Scholarship 2025

    Applications for the 2025 LGBTQ+ Public Interest Scholarship are now being accepted. Law students and/or recent law school graduates studying for the Bar who are working, or will be working in the LGBTQ+ space doing public interest work are encouraged to apply by April 30, 2025. Visit the SOGI Commission's LGBTQ+ Public Interest Law Scholarship page for instructions and details.

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    Trump Anti-LGBTQ+ Executive Orders | Litigation Tracker

    The National LGBTQ+ Bar is proud to share its new Trump Anti-LGBTQ+ Executive Order Litigation Tracker: a one-stop resource for locating up-to-date information on all pending litigation addressing anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders issued by the second Trump Administration. Their litigation tracker page can be accessed here.

    Executive Orders | Litigation Tracker

    LGBTQ+ Bar

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    Support the ABA SOGI Commission

    Your gift to the SOGI Commission will help us continue to provide educational programs and valuable resources to educate lawyers, judges, bar associations, LGBTQ+ communities, and more. SOGI protects and promotes equal treatment for all individuals in the justice system, the legal profession, and society, regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity.

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    ABA Fund for Justice and Education (FJE)

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    2025 Stonewall Awardees

    This year's esteemed recipients are Judge D. Zeke Zeidler, Judge Victoria Kolakowski, and Kristen Galles. Visit the 2025 Stonewall Award page for bios, sponsors, slideshow, and more.

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    Troubled Teen Industry Series

    This 3-part ABA webinar series explores the history, policy solutions, and legal challenges and presents practical solutions for effective change. Resolution 605 was adopted by the American Bar Association in 2023 because of decades of well-documented abuse within the Troubled Teen Industry and youth residential treatment centers. Despite this awareness, little has been done to protect children in institutional settings.

    Troubled Teen Industry Webinar Series

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    TTI - Video & Resources

    SOGI LGBTQ+ Webinar page

    Visit the SOGI LGBT Webinar page to watch videos of past programs, which include Combatting LGBT Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession, Title VII US Supreme Court Decision, Sexual Orientation: The Legal Case for Coverage Under Title VII and more.

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    Webinar videos and more

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    LGBT Public Interest Scholarship | 2024

    About this year's recipients

    This year's LGBT Public Interest Scholarship Award recipients are Elaina Jung Hee Vermeulen and Jordan Cozby. Visit the scholarship recipient's page for bios and more.

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    National Study of Lawyers with Disability and who identify as LGBTQ+

    First phase findings from a National Study of Lawyers with Disabilities and Lawyers who identify as LGBTQ+ in collaboration with the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University.

    Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Workspace

    ABA Commission on Disability Rights

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    LGBTQ+ Highlights and Resource Page

    Visit SOGI's Pride Month page for LGBTQ+ highlights and resources, including information on free webinars, articles, videos, and more.

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    LGBTQ+ Groups & Projects at the ABA

    Visit the LGBTQ+ Groups & Projects page to learn about the ABA entities that work with the SOGI Commission and support the LGBTQ+ community.

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    SOGI Leadership & Staff | 2024-2025

    Policy and the Law

    An overview of the progress that the American Bar Association has made in advancing sexual orientation and gender identity issues and policies.

    Issues Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

    LGBTQ Policies

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    Become a Member

    Did you know that the American Bar Association supports 11 different LGBTQ+ groups or projects that address LGBTQ+ issues from foster care to senior care? Become a member, and your efforts could help LGBTQ+ people across the country.

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    SOGI'S ABA Book Publications

    SOGI'S Newsletter

    The Equalizer is SOGI's bi-annual newsletter, featuring interviews, current events, highlights of Annual and Midyear Meetings, politics, recent developments.

    The Equalizer

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    Summer 2019  
    Winter 2019
    Winter 2018
    Summer 2017
    Winter 2017
    Summer 2016
    Winter 2016
    Summer 2015

     

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