The following is an excerpt from Making the Case for Equality: 50 Years of Legal Milestones in LGBTQ+ History, a powerful commemorative coffee table book from Lambda Legal, co-authored by Jennifer C.
Pizer and Ann Anderson, out October 29.This book invites you to reflect on and celebrate Lambda Legal’s fifty years of making the case for LGBTQ+ equality and freedom.
It is not a complete catalog of our work. That would be impossible. In the past half century, Lambda Legal has litigated more than a thousand cases on behalf of tens of thousands of clients.
We have drafted statutes, trained judges, published Know-Your-Rights toolkits, led awareness campaigns, and responded to at least a quarter million Legal Help Desk inquiries.