Since our formation as the LGBTQ People and the Law Committee, and now as the LGBTQ Law Section, we have tirelessly worked to protect the rights and liberties of the LGBTQ community in not only our outreach and programming, but in our push for critical legislation and our litigation work all across the country.

In 2020, the New York State Bar Association’s LGBTQ Law Section wrote an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the association in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, arguing the important reliance interest that New York and other states have to ensure that neutral, generally applicable laws prohibiting discrimination can be upheld under the U.S. Constitution.