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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.  

    LGBT Scholarship Recipients | 2023

    Congratulations to This Year's Recipients!

    (L-R) Indira Rahman (they/them), Taylor Elyse Mills (she/they), and Zakiya Lewis (she/her).. The Scholarship provides financial support to a law student, or recent law graduate to enable the student or recent law graduate to work in the LGBT public interest arena. || Click below to read about recipients:

     Reciipient - Bios

    Non Binary Guide 2023 | Nonbinary Inclusion in the Legal Profession

    This guide proposes a framework of general principles to address the challenges of nonbinary people in the Legal Profession and highlights practical solutions, including policy recommendations for employers and actions for individual colleagues. | Click link to read more.

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    The Troubled Teen Industry

    A Collaborative Multi-Series Program

    Silenced, abused, and desperate for help, children across the nation are being funneled into prison-like behavior modification centers under the guise of treatment. This collaborative multi-series program explores the industry and the institutional child abuse within and around the Troubled Teen Industry, and our progress towards reform. Visit page to learn more.

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    2023 Stonewall Awardees

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    About the 2023 Awardees, Stonewall Award Sponsors & more.

    Visit the 2023 Stonewall Awards page to learn more about this year's prestigious awardees: Judge Pamela K. Chen, Ellie Krug and Jennifer C. Pizer. Sponsors and slideshow presentation also featured. Reception photos and video interviews of each awardee will be posted soon. Click below.

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    SOGI LGBTQ+ Webinar Page

    LGBTQ+ Webinars

    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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    Leadership & Staff | 2023 - 2024

    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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    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

    Policy and the Law - visit page

    LGBTQ+ Highlights and Resource Page

    Visit SOGI's Pride Month page for LGBTQ+ highlights and resources which include information & pledge form for the ABA 21-Day Challenge, free webinars, articles, videos and more.

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    Donate to SOGI Commission

    Your support of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Commission's work is greatly appreciated and will help expand on our accomplishments and activities to date.

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    About Us

    The SOGI Commission consists of one chair and 13 commissioners who together decide the programs, policies and activities that will be pursued by the Commission. In the interest of promoting full diversity and inclusion.

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    SOGI Commission Annual Goal III Reports

    Annual Review of the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation at the American Bar Association.

    Archived Reports

    2015-2016 SOGI Commission Goal III Report quantitative and qualitative analysis of LGBT participation at the ABA.
    2014-2015 SOGI Commission Goal III Report 
    2013-2014 SOGI Commission Goal III Report
    2012-2013 SOGI Commission Goal III Report 
    2011-2012 SOGI Commission Goal III Report

    SOGI'S ABA Book Publications

    Banning Conversion Therapy

    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

    All Issues:

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

     

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