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Oct. 20, 2023
Lambda Legal marks 50 years
Wednesday's celebration was held in New York and livestreamed to The Lot at Formosa in West Hollywood.
Jenny Pizer, chief legal officer at Lambda Legal, speaks at a celebration Wednesday in West Hollywood marking the 50th anniversary of the LGBTQ+ civil rights law firm.
The organization's first case in 1973 was in New York on behalf of its founder, Bill Thom, who successfully challenged a judicial ruling that the organization wasn't entitled to nonprofit status because it was "neither benevolent nor charitable." The next year, it successfully challenged a ban on a gay student organization at the University of New Hampshire. Throughout the decades it has been involved in most of the groundbreaking litigation involving LGBTQ+ rights, including 2003's Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down anti-sodomy laws, and the cases that granted same-sex couples the right to marry.
Wednesday's celebration was held in New York and livestreamed to The Lot at Formosa in West Hollywood.
-- Jessica Lynn Murray, Associate Legal Editor
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