Brown, Goldstein & Levy proudly celebrates LGBTQ+ Pleasure Month all through the month of June. We commemorate those that courageously resisted police harassment and persecution within the Stonewall Rebellion and honor the generations of LGBTQ+ people who’ve continued the struggle for equality, inclusion, and justice.
Sadly, prejudice towards the LGBTQ+ neighborhood stays, with transgender people, significantly youth, beneath assault. When lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and different people expertise discrimination, BGL attorneys draw on many years of expertise efficiently advocating for civil rights to supply educated and passionate illustration. We characterize LGBTQ+ shoppers in all areas of the regulation.
In April, we obtained a precedent-setting victory on behalf of a married homosexual worker who challenged Catholic Aid Companies’ withdrawal of medical health insurance advantages for his husband. This win was the primary to use new regulation relating to the Maryland Honest Employment Practices Act’s non secular exemption.
In February, we received a brief restraining order on behalf of three transgender ladies in federal correctional services, efficiently difficult the Trump Administration’s Govt Order that will have transferred them to males’s services and ended their entry to gender-confirming healthcare.
We’re additionally proud to companion with different organizations within the struggle for LGBTQ+ equality. For instance, we have now labored with FreeState Justice, Maryland’s statewide LGBTQ+ authorized companies and advocacy group, to supply professional bono illustration to LGBTQ+ people looking for identify and authorized gender marker adjustments, asylum safety, and authorized illustration in instances involving employment and well being care discrimination.
Since its founding over 4 many years in the past, BGL has held itself to the very best requirements of inclusion in all our work. We perceive {that a} give attention to range, fairness, inclusion, and belonging—together with accessibility—fosters a collaborative, inventive surroundings that harnesses every individual’s strengths and distinctive views to the fullest to attain one of the best outcomes for our shoppers. Learn our assertion on Range, Inclusion & Accessibility right here.
Brown, Goldstein & Levy is proud to proceed our work advancing the rights and full equality of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.
