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Groundbreaking Analysis of Hate Crime Laws Finds Limitations and Opportunities in the Face of Rising Hate Violence
With a rise in hate violence across the country, a new report from the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) and 16 leading civil rights organizations provides a groundbreaking analysis of state and federal hate crime laws. The report features a foreword by Judy Shepard,...
Gay Parent Magazine – Cathy Sakimura of the National Center for Lesbian Rights
[Re-published with permission from Gay Parent Magazine | July-August 2021 | Issue #137] Catherine “Cathy” Sakimura, Esq. is the Deputy Director & Family Law Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR). Cathy identifies as queer, using she/her...
Research Brief Documents the Shockingly Disproportionate Harms Discrimination Inflicts on LGBTQ People of Color
Today, a coalition of leading LGBTQ rights groups joined together to release the most extensive summaries to date of scholarly data on the intersection of anti-LGBTQ and racial discrimination. The research brief, authored by the What We Know Project at Cornell...
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