Join the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio as it announces that it will represent the family of a Unioto High School student who was assaulted because of his sexual orientation.

 

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Shane Morgan, Erin Upchurch, and Kim Welter discuss strategies to advance LGBT rights in your community.

This session was offered as part of ACTION! A Conference for Civil Libertarians held July 30-31, 2010 in Columbus. Find conference highlights here.

 

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Gary Daniels, associate director of the ACLU of Ohio, discusses President Obama’s policies on national security, LGBT rights, racial justice, and other civil liberties issues.

 

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Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law hosts a half-day symposium exploring cutting-edge legal issues affecting the daily lives of LGBT individuals in Ohio, nationally, and around the world.

The symposium features lawyers and other activists who have advocated successfully on behalf of their LGBT clients and constituents to change the laws governing marriage and domestic partnerships, parental rights, and non-discrimination in employment, housing and related areas.

An audio podcast of the event is not available. However, you can watch the video from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law here.

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This symposium is presented by Cleveland State University’s Cleveland Marshall College of Law, CSU’s Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, CSU’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services, the ACLU of Ohio, and the CM allies.

Generous support also provided by the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Constitution Society and the CM Student Chapter, Cleveland State Law Review, Cleveland-Marshall Law Library, Black Students Law Association (BLSA), Women’s Law Students Association (WLSA), Student Bar Association (SBA), Democratic Law Organization (DLO), and Hispanic Law Students Association (HLSA).

Toledo area civil libertarians celebrate activism with free speech hero Mary Beth Tinker and LGBT advocate Brenda Spurlin.

 

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Matt Coles, Director of the ACLU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and AIDS Project since 1995, speaks on LGBT rights and the law. Coles wrote and helped lead the campaigns to pass many gay rights laws, including the first comprehensive law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in California, California’s law barring employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, and the nation’s first domestic partnership law. He was also one of the lead lawyers on Romer v. Evans, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down Colorado’s Amendment 2, and on important cases on adoption, AIDS, and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Listen to the audio podcast from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law here.

Professor Shannon Gilreath, author of “Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today,” discusses how to get the LGBT community to awaken from their apathy “to turn necessary attention to the politics that will bring the gay person the deserved equality that is so long overdue.”

 

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Michigan recently joined California and Texas in limiting affirmative action. Is Ohio next? this panel discussion features Stanley Miller, executive director of the Cleveland Branch NAACP, Kary Moss, executive director of the Michigan ACLU and Professor William Carter, Jr., of Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

 

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With Mika Major, director of programs for the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland

 

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