Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

Last night at the Human Rights Campaign dinner President Barack Obama delivered his first big speech on lgbt issues since becoming President.   There was much anticipation for the speech, as some in the gay community feel that the President has not moved fast enough on the issues affecting our community.
What is “an LGBT Issue”?
But what [...]

News sources report today that the Obama Administration has determined to reverse the previous administration’s refusal to be a signatory to UN statement calling for an end to rights abuses based on sexual orientation and gender identity.  As we blogged earlier here and here, the declaration was signed by all 27 European Union members [...]

The U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General.
Hopefully this will be the last hiring season in which law schools are asked to bracket their objections to employers who explicitly discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation for the better financial benefit of the University (the Solomon Amendment threatens cutting off all federal funds [...]

Last week when John McCain and Barack Obama were at Columbia to discuss “national service” in a non-partisan way, both candidates criticized the University for failing to reinstate ROTC activities on campus, asserting, as Senator Obama put it, that the University’s policy denies “young people….at Columbia….an option in participating in military service.”
The Naval ROTC program [...]