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Spotlight On Kevin Jennings: Executive Director And Co-Founder Of The Gay, Lesbian, And Straight Education Network (Glsen) , Lydia Edwards
Spotlight On Kevin Jennings: Executive Director And Co-Founder Of The Gay, Lesbian, And Straight Education Network (Glsen) , Lydia Edwards
The Modern American
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Cultural Displacement: Is The Glbt Community Gentrifying African American Neighborhoods In Washington, D.C.?, Chris Mcchesney
Cultural Displacement: Is The Glbt Community Gentrifying African American Neighborhoods In Washington, D.C.?, Chris Mcchesney
The Modern American
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"Soft Immutability" And "Imputed Gay Identity": Recent Developments In Transgender And Sexual-Orientation-Based Asylum Law, Joseph Landau
"Soft Immutability" And "Imputed Gay Identity": Recent Developments In Transgender And Sexual-Orientation-Based Asylum Law, Joseph Landau
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article surveys the law of LGBT asylum as it has developed over the past fifteen years, first, with the landmark case of Matter of Toboso-Alfonso, which recognized homosexuality as a "particular social group"; second, with the Ninth Circuit's recent cases adopting a soft immutability standard of identity and expanding asylum protection to transgender individuals; and third, with a discussion of the "particular social group" analysis as it applies to transgender asylum seekers and the emergence of the "imputed gay identity" category as an alternative basis for relief for those litigants who do not identify as gay or lesbian but …
Interest Analysis In Interjurisdictional Marriage Disputes, Tobias Barrington Wolff
Interest Analysis In Interjurisdictional Marriage Disputes, Tobias Barrington Wolff
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Gay and lesbian couples are now entering into legally authorized marriages for the first time in our Nation's history. As has happened many times before when significant policy differences have emerged among the civil marriage laws of different states, these married couples will inevitably move about the country, and state courts will have to decide whether and for what purpose to give effect to their marriages when forum law would have prohibited them from marrying locally. The debate over this recognition problem is already fully joined. Thus far, however, that debate has most frequently been characterized by positions that are …