In Bar Year 2008 - 2009, the Commission has given a $10 K partnership in Law & Aging Grant to Services and Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Elders (SAGE) to develop programs and materials for elderly LGBT individuals.
(Formerly known as the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities), is the oldest LGBTQ+ group at the ABA in recorded existence since 1977, which has researched and presented most of the policies the ABA has adopted regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.
Its mission is to help educate the Section of Litigation on issues of concern to LGBTQ+ litigators and to provide resources, including educational and networking opportunities to litigators concerned with issues relating to LGBT people.
A project by GLAAD, which involved the ABA Center on Children and the Law. The project aims to increase the legal community's awareness of LGBTQ+ youth in foster care and the unique issues they face and provide the legal community with advocacy tools to successfully represent these youth.
This committee of Section of Family Law studies and reports on the legal and ethical ramifications of advances in the technology of assisted reproduction.
Complimenting the Section of International Law's Women's Interest Network (WIN), Young Lawyers' Interest Network (YIN), and Senior Lawyers' Network (SIN), GIN will put an international focus on LGBTQ+ communities, and create networking events in conjunction with the Section's other interest networks.
The ABA Business Law Section's Diversity Committee promotes diversity of membership and topics impacting LGBTQ+ communities within the Section of Business Law.
The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association, formerly known as the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (NLGLA), is an affiliate of the ABA with a delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. It is a membership-based organization of lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals, law students, activists, and affiliate lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender legal organizations.