Wh days of his appotment to the Los Angel County Superr Court 1979, a landmark event that ma him the first openly gay judge the world, UCLA School of Law alumn Stephen Lachs ’63 uld tell that thgs would never be the same.
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- PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS
- DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
- 1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72
- PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
- BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
- SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH
PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS
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Wh days of his appotment to the Los Angel County Superr Court 1979, a landmark event that ma him the first openly gay judge the world, UCLA School of Law alumn Stephen Lachs ’63 uld tell that thgs would never be the same.
DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
I never thought that I, as a gay person, uld do anythg, and now I see that you n do somethg wh your life.
1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72
‘They Want to Meet a Gay Lawyer’. He was not out beyond a small circle of iends – or, as he says, “out-out” – until the early 1970s, when an acquatance asked him to attend a small meetg of gay law stunts who traveled om as far away as San Diego. They want to meet a gay lawyer.
So began his learship the burgeong gay rights movement and muny support groups. Jerry Brown, then his first two-term stt as the state’s chief executive, was elected wh substantial support om members of the gay and lbian muny.
PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
(While many sourc tablish that Lachs was the first openly gay judge Ameri, no evince apparently refut the prumptn that he was also the first openly gay judge the world, and Lachs has never heard otherwise.
BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
) He was one a small handful of openly gay ernment officials the untry. In a sign of the tim, a headle and the ptn on a wily distributed wire-service photograph lled him “California’s first avowed homosexual judge, ” a phrase that still startl. He had never expected to be such a trailblazer, he says, lightly addg, “I had barely taken my vows – as an avowed homosexual!
SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH
Among them was Rand Schrar, another pneerg UCLA Law alumn who had been the first openly gay staffer the L. Six years apart age, Lachs and Schrar had fact met at that early-1970s gatherg of gay law stunts, when Lachs me out. District Judge Julian Abele Cook 's a member of the Gay and Lbian Bar Associatn and has done pro bono for Lambda Legal, a nonprof LGBT legal aid group.
Tmp put up gay nservative Patrick Bumatay for the 9th Circu San Francis 2018.
Currently there is only one openly gay feral appeals urt judge the U. The PayPal founr, after all, has never practiced law, once wrote that women's sufage was anthetil to a "palist mocracy, " and promot ge ias like cryonics and payg young geni to skip once-disqualifyg reason that no longer seems to apply: Thiel is openly gay.