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 advanced in some ways, prejudices stayand new legal guidelines concentrating 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 instances to supply advocacy and safety. We symbolize LGBTQ+ purchasers in all areas of the legislation. We’ve pursued instances on behalf of scholars whose faculties censor LGBTQ+ content material and on behalf of workers whose employers refuse to increase medical health insurance protection to their same-sex spouses. We’re additionally proud to companion 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 in search of identify and authorized gender marker modifications, asylum safety, and authorized illustration in instances involving employment and well being care discrimination.

BGL continues to actively advocate on behalf of LGBTQ purchasers. In April 2023, we filed Chelsea Gilliam, et al., v. Maryland Division of Public Security and Correctional Companies, et al., a case by which we symbolize transgender ladies who are or have been incarcerated in males’s correctional amenities, the place they’ve skilled sexual assault, denial of hormone therapy, and ongoing harassment. In December 2023,we have been proud to acquire a non permanent restraining order (TRO) for one presently incarcerated shopper, Chloe Gray, requiring, amongst different issues, that jail officers video document every administration of hormone therapy to make sure well timed and constant provision of obligatory medical care. We additionally just lately obtained a federal district court docket victory on behalf of a married homosexual worker who challenged Catholic Reduction Companies’ withdrawal of medical health 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 persistently acknowledged as the very best of the very best by the business’s main organizations, together with Chambers USA, Lawdragon, Greatest Attorneys and Tremendous Attorneys. Greatest Attorneys awarded BGL’s Civil Rights follow with its highest rating and cited BGL companion 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+ group.