FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2018 Contact: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / 215.983.3099 As Pattern of Alleged Sexual Assaults Emerges, NCLR Calls on Brett Kavanaugh to Withdraw NCLR says, “The gravity of this pattern of alleged sexual assaults casts a troubling cloud …Kavanaugh’s nomination must be withdrawn” WASHINGTON, DC—Today Montgomery County investigators confirmed they are aware of...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 NCLR and GLAD, the LGBTQ Legal Organizations Leading the Fight to Stop the Trump-Pence Trans Military Ban, Joint Statement on 7 Years Since the End of Don’t Ask,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 19, 2018 Contact: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / 215.983.3099 NCLR Calls on the White House to Direct the FBI to Investigate Sexual Assault Allegations Against Kavanaugh NCLR says, “Professor Ford’s story cuts close to the bone for many members of our LGBTQ community who have been subjected to the pain and devastation of sexual violence.” WASHINGTON, DC—Professor Christine Blasey Ford...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 18, 2018 MEDIA CONTACTS: Samuel Garrett-Pate, Equality California sam@eqca.org / (973) 476-3770 Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 Tania Mercado, California DOJ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2018 Contact: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / 215.983.3099 NCLR Demands the Senate Stop Kavanaugh’s Nomination Process to Investigate Sexual Assault Allegations WASHINGTON, DC— National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) Legal Director Shannon Minter issued the following statement: “The allegations of sexual assault raised against Brett Kavanaugh are...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 7, 2018 Contact: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / 215.983.3099 NCLR Statement on Kavanaugh’s Refusal to Confirm that Obergefell, the Supreme Court’s Marriage Equality Decision, was Correctly Decided Legal Director Shannon Minter, who was on the team of attorneys to win Obergefell, calls this refusal “chilling” and disqualifying WASHINGTON, D.C.—Last night, President Trump’s...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2018 Contacts: Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 Judge Orders Government to Produce Documents Related to Development of Trans Military Ban Implementation Plan Washington, D.C.—Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly today issued a ruling ordering the Trump administration to disclose information about its decision to ban otherwise qualified transgender...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2018 Contacts: Lauren Gray, NCLR lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 Amanda Johnston, GLAD ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769 NCLR and GLAD Statement on the Transgender Military Ban, a Year After Trump’s Tweets “One of our plaintiffs, Jane Doe 3, served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and said she was having breakfast after completing...
* This piece originally appeared in the Los Angeles Blade and the Washington Blade on July 12, 2018. On July 9, President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Kennedy, who authored the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision and a number of other landmark LGBTQ rights cases, was an occasional swing vote on the Supreme Court. Though he almost always sided with the conservative justices, sometimes he voted with liberal Justices...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2018 Contact: Lauren Gray, NCLR Communications Director lgray@nclrights.org / (215) 983-3099 NCLR Responds to Trump’s Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to Fill Supreme Court Vacancy NCLR’s Shannon Minter says this “is a wake-up call to LGBTQ people and others about the critical importance of elections and the need to vote this November” WASHINGTON, D.C.—National Center for Lesbian...