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Panel One: Gender, Race, And Sexuality: Historical Themes And Emerging Issues In Women's Rights Law: Introduction, Suzanne B. Goldberg

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Hello and welcome. We are thrilled to see you all here. I speak on behalf of my co-panelists in thanking Sarah Weddington for laying some of the groundwork on which we are standing and for laying some of the foundation that gives rise to the issues we are going to talk about on this panel.

Parallel Lives: Women's Rights And Lesbian Rights Litigation, Suzanne B. Goldberg

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I love the title of this panel because it gave me a chance to think about the historical themes and emerging issues in law related to women's rights, which of course is a mere endless set of possibilities.

I spent much of the last decade doing lesbian and gay civil rights litigation, and the question that I will focus on today grows out of that work and is a comparative one or at least a relational one. The question is this: What is the relationship between women's rights litigation as it has evolved in the last thirty years and lesbian …