Landmark Dinner hits the FIG
Kevin Jennings and Shelly Skeen Evening will honor Lee Taft and Lauren Mutti DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer Taffet@DallasVoice.com Lambda Legal’s upcoming Landmark dinner will honor community leaders Lee Taft and Lauren Mutti, both of whom have played vital roles in the organization’s history.
Taft was the first executive director of Lambda Legal’s Southwest Region office based in Dallas and was part of the legal team litigating the landmark lawsuit Lawrence v.
Texas. That case began in 1998 when John Lawrence and Tyron Garner were arrested in Lawrence’s home in Houston for violating Texas’ “homosexual conduct” law — Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal Code.
Lambda Legal argued the Houston case from local court all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in 2003, a majority of Supreme Court justices agreed that sodomy laws violated the equal protection clause of the U.S.
