Mary Margaret Gay | Gay Jon & Kuhn PLLC

Contents:

• MARY MARGARET GAY
• JURORS N BE REJECTED FOR BEG GAY. THE EQUALY ACT ULD CHANGE THAT.
• GAY JON & KUHN PLLC
• THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

MARY MARGARET GAY

Gay Jon & Kuhn is a women-owned and operated law firm found on prcipl of entreprenrship and foced on diversy, equaly, and novatn.

As one of Mississippi’s only law firms wh a dited special tn legal team, special tn law is an important part of Gay Jon & Kuhn. The Hoe of Reprentativ is poised this week to vote on the Equaly Act, a landmark assemblage of LGBTQ anti-discrimatn measur that’s gotten strong support om Print Joe passed, the law would explicly provi protectns to LGBTQ people across key areas, cludg employment, hog, tn, public acmodatns and ferally fund one provisn the bill uld also have a big impact on how the gay muny teracts wh the Amerin legal system.

JURORS N BE REJECTED FOR BEG GAY. THE EQUALY ACT ULD CHANGE THAT.

Rehardt of the 9th Circu Court of Appeals stopped Abbott Laboratori om dismissg a gay man om the jury. “Gays and lbians have been systematilly exclud om the most important stutns of self-ernance, ” Rehardt wrote his opn. “Strik exercised on the basis of sexual orientatn ntue this plorable tradn of treatg gays and lbians as unservg of participatn our natn’s most cherished r and ruals.

As a gay Black man and an attorney, he said he’s “distctly aware of the discrimatn that is permissible the urtroom. ”“I spent most of my life athly aaid of people fdg out I was gay, ” he said.

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The gay/trans panic legal fense legimiz and exc vlent and lethal behavr agast members of the LGBTQ+ muny. Over the urse of lbian, gay, or bisexual people's lifetim, one five will experience hate crim, and one four transgenr people will as dividuals at the tersectn of homophobia, transphobia, and racism, face worse statistics.

THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT

As of July 1, 2019, eight stat have passed legislative bans on the e of gay/trans panic as a legal fense: California, Illois, Rho Island, Nevada, Connecticut, Mae, Hawaii, and New York. It mt be noted that gay/trans panic is not an affirmative legal fense; is a tactic to strengthen the fense by playg on prejudice.

Dpe bunkg "gay panic disorr, " and s removal om the DSM by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn 1973, legal fense teams ntue to e the 1954 murr of William T. Simpson North Miami, FL, the fendants claimed that they shot Simpson, a gay man, while "ristg his advanc, " th utilizg the provotn fense. Even though the fendants were crimals who equented that area of highway to rob drivers, and tentnally targeted homosexual victims, the fendants were nvicted of manslghter rather than first-gree murr.

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The fense aga utilized the provotn fense, cg that the nature of the note and Amre's homosexualy was enough to send Schmz to a panic and kill Amre.

The gay/trans panic fense has not always been succsful. The gay/trans panic fense was emed admissible, not due to the illegimacy of the gay/trans panic fense, but stead due to Wyomg's statutory sany fense nstct.

Currently, there are several other state legislative efforts to ban and nounce the legimacy of the gay/trans panic fense. At the feral level, the Equaly Act, which bans the gay/trans panic fense, has jt been troduced.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Help to end this discrimatn by supportg legislative bans on the gay/trans panic steps you n, and should, take are as follows:Contact legislators and ernors stat currently tryg to ban the gay/trans panic fense. Be sure to reach out to feral legislators as an advote stat where there is currently no proposed gay/trans panic ban your own policians know that equaly unr the law should apply to the victims of hate crim as well.

AdvertisementSKIP Wilson/The New York TimJune 19, 2019Begng before Stonewall and ntug the 50 years sce, lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people have regularly turned to the urts for protectn agast mistreatment or to overturn laws that targeted them. Olen – Uned Stat Supreme CourtIn a one-sentence opn, the Supreme Court provid nstutnal protectn for a gay magaze started by the Mattache Society, reversg a lower urt’s cisn that had found the publitn to be tr of marriage R. Hardwick – Uned Stat Supreme CourtAs the AIDS crisis h and anti-gay hysteria took over public pictns of gay men’s liv, the Supreme Court led that Geia’s crimal sodomy law was nstutnal — clarg that such laws “have ancient roots” and settg forth a pivotal rejectn of gay rights that took nearly 20 years to overturn.

Kowalski’s fay to be named her guardian — a key qutn as gay men addrsed siar ncerns when partners wh unsupportive fai received diagnos of H.

Kennedy’s seri of opns advancg gay rights was a cisn strikg down a Colorado amendment that banned ci om passg antidiscrimatn laws that protected gay and bisexual people. Podlny – Uned Stat Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuJamie Nabozny faced years of abe and harassment Wisns schools bee he was gay.

Dale – Uned Stat Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court led that New Jersey uld not enforce s nondiscrimatn laws to force the Boy Suts to allow gay sutmasters the state — reversg a lower-urt cisn that had led favor of allowg Jam Dale to serve as an assistant end of sodomy Schlegel/The Dallas Morng News, via Associated Prs2003: Lawrence v.

Brien – Iowa Supreme CourtThe Iowa Supreme Court ma history when issued the first unanimo cisn affirmg the right of same-sex upl to marry — a cisn that also led to Iowa beg the first state the Midwt where same-sex upl uld Raedle/Getty Imag2010: In re Gill – Florida Third District Court of AppealFor s, Florida law tegorilly barred gay people om adoptg children.

Whether you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or non-bary, you need an attorney who unrstands who you are and what you may be gog through.

For more than 40 years, our gay and lbian tate planng lawyers, divorce lawyers, probate attorneys, and donor agreement and adoptn attorneys have served the rints of Chigo, IL, and surroundg areas. We pri ourselv on providg effective legal servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or non-bary dividuals and upl.

The attorneys at Metz + Jon LLC are mted to servg the legal needs of the LGBTQ muny, a challengg and ever-changg legal field that clus adoptn, tate planng, real tate law, probate law, and gay and lbian fay law, cludg marriage, civil unn, divorce, and assisted reproductive technology law. Her former work as chair of the Lbian and Gay Rights Project of the ACLU and legislative liaison for the Lbian and Gay Rights Commtee of the Chigo Bar Associatn have put her at the foreont of the changg laws that affect the LGBTQ muny, leadg to her ductn to the Cy of Chigo Lbian and Gay Hall of Fame.

Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.