BGL celebrates LGBTQ+ Satisfaction Month and stays devoted to the battle for true equality, inclusion, and justice. – Cyber Tech

This June, Brown, Goldstein & Levy proudly celebrates LGBTQ+ Satisfaction Month.  We commemorate those who courageously resisted police harassment and persecution via the Stonewall Rebellion and honor generations of LGBTQ+ individuals who have continued the fight for equality, inclusion, and justice for LGBTQ+ people.

Though the legislation has developed in some ways, prejudices stayand new legal guidelines focusing on transgender youth are sadly on the rise. When lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and different people expertise discrimination, BGL attorneys draw on a long time of expertise in civil rights circumstances to supply advocacy and safety. We symbolize LGBTQ+ shoppers in all areas of the legislation. We now have pursued circumstances on behalf of scholars whose colleges censor LGBTQ+ content material and on behalf of staff whose employers refuse to increase medical insurance protection to their same-sex spouses. We’re additionally proud to accomplice with different organizations to advocate for LGBTQ+ equality within the legislation and to form coverage.

We’re proud of our work with FreeState Justice to supply professional bono illustration to trans women and men searching for identify and authorized gender marker modifications, asylum safety, and authorized illustration in circumstances involving employment and well being care discrimination.

BGL continues to actively advocate on behalf of LGBTQ shoppers. In April 2023, we filed Chelsea Gilliam, et al., v. Maryland Division of Public Security and Correctional Providers, et al., a case by which we symbolize transgender ladies who are or have been incarcerated in males’s correctional services, the place they’ve skilled sexual assault, denial of hormone remedy, and ongoing harassment. In December 2023,we had been proud to acquire a momentary restraining order (TRO) for one at present incarcerated consumer, Chloe Gray, requiring, amongst different issues, that jail officers video file every administration of hormone remedy to make sure well timed and constant provision of essential medical care. We additionally just lately obtained a federal district courtroom victory on behalf of a married homosexual worker who challenged Catholic Reduction Providers’ withdrawal of medical insurance advantages for his husband.

BGL was chosen because the nation’s “Civil Rights Regulation Agency of the 12 months” by The Nationwide Regulation Journal and Elite Attorneys.  Our attorneys are constantly acknowledged as one of the best of one of the best by the business’s main organizations, together with Chambers USA, Lawdragon, Greatest Attorneys and Tremendous Attorneys. Greatest Attorneys awarded BGL’s Civil Rights observe with its highest rating and cited BGL accomplice Eve Hill as its Civil Rights “Lawyer of the 12 months.”

Brown, Goldstein & Levy is proud to proceed our work advancing the rights and full equality of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.