When A Gay Judge Rul On Gay Rights : NPR

Contents:

• CALIFORNIA NFIRMS MART JENKS AS STATE'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPREME COURT JTICE
• NEWSOM NAM FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT
• CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT'S 1ST GAY JTICE LEFT THE NFL TO PURSUE A LAW REER
• NEWSOM’S SUPREME COURT PICK NFIRMED AS STATE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE
• CALIFORNIA MAK HISTORY BY CONFIRMG FIRST GAY, BLACK MALE SUPREME COURT JTICE
• PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS
• WHEN A GAY JUDGE RUL ON GAY RIGHTS
• PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61
• CALIFORNIA JUDGE UPHOLDS A RULG ON GAY MARRIAGE

CALIFORNIA NFIRMS MART JENKS AS STATE'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPREME COURT JTICE

California ma history on Tuday when nfirmed s first openly gay state Supreme Court jtice, acrdg to a prs release. After more than 30 years of service as a state & feral judge, Jtice Jenks mak history as the first openly gay jtice and the third Ain Amerin man to serve on the state high urt.

Mart Jenks, 66, be the first openly gay associate jtice nfirmed to California's Supreme Court. He will bee the first openly gay jtice on the California Supreme Court, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state’s hight urt, the ernor’s office said. Jenks left the urt last year and went to work for the ernor’s judicial appotments secretary, Jenks worked wh Regnal Judicial Selectn Advisory Commte to appot 45 jurists wh the goal of promotg diversy among the California judiciary, acrdg to the ernor’s ernor’s appotment of Jenks was “a monumental step forward for the LGBTQ+ muny and for our entire state, ” said Rick Chavez Zbur, executive director of the gay rights group Equaly California.

NEWSOM NAM FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT

”Newsom scribed Jenks as “both a product and a protector of the California dream” whose life as a gay man will rm his work on the high urt. Jenks ma history as the first openly gay jtice and third Black man to serve on the state’s hight an terview wh the LGBTQ magaze Advote, Jenks lled the distctn “an tertg notn. In an terview wh, Jenks, now his late 60s, said that acceptg himself as gay was “bar none” his greatt challenge.

Mart Jenks was unanimoly nfirmed today to the California Supreme Court, makg him the first openly gay jtice on the state’s hight urt. In 2018, the appeals urt, a 3-0 lg, cleared the way for disciplary actn agast San Francis officers who sent racist, sexist, and homophobic text msag.

CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT'S 1ST GAY JTICE LEFT THE NFL TO PURSUE A LAW REER

Mart Jenks ma history on Tuday by beg the first gay, Black man nfirmed to a state Supreme Court U. Acrdg to the LGBTQ+ publitn Q Voice News, he is also one of jt 11 openly gay, lbian, or bisexual jtic to serve on a state Supreme Court the U. Although Jenks, who waed four days to rpond to Newsom’s offer of a California judghip, said that beg gay was “perhaps the greatt challenge of my life, ” he hoped his succs would spire others.

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. I never thought that I, as a gay person, uld do anythg, and now I see that you n do somethg wh your life. ‘They Want to Meet a Gay Lawyer’.

NEWSOM’S SUPREME COURT PICK NFIRMED AS STATE’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JTICE

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.

CALIFORNIA MAK HISTORY BY CONFIRMG FIRST GAY, BLACK MALE SUPREME COURT JTICE

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.

PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS

(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. ) 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! Among them was Rand Schrar, another pneerg UCLA Law alumn who had been the first openly gay staffer the L.

WHEN A GAY JUDGE RUL ON GAY RIGHTS

Six years apart age, Lachs and Schrar had fact met at that early-1970s gatherg of gay law stunts, when Lachs me out. “For the hundreds of thoands of Californians gay and lbian hoeholds who are managg their day-to-day liv, this cisn affirms the full legal protectns and safeguards I believe everyone serv. In holdg that Prop 8 nnot stand bee vlat the equal protectn and due procs rights of California’s lbian and gay upl, this cisn adds to the growg nsens urts and legislatur across the untry that there are no good reasons for excludg same-sex upl om marriage.

“The urt examed the range of exc ed by anti-gay groups to jtify this ernment discrimatn agast same-sex upl. The ttimony of leadg experts on everythg om child velopment to adult psychology to the public sts of anti-gay discrimatn laid bare the misrmatn and outright li that anti-gay groups have been phg on the public. It doubtls will help more people see that anti-gay discrimatn marriage is stctive and unjtifiable.

District Judge Vghn Walker led [[Read the cisn]()] the su filed by two gay upl who claimed the ban vlated their civil rights.

PL FEMAN, FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE ON N.Y. HIGH COURT, DI AT 61

Gay rights advot and civil libertarians say the battle is a fight for equal rights, while opponents, cludg many relig nservativ, see same-sex marriage as a threat to the “tradnal fay.

CALIFORNIA JUDGE UPHOLDS A RULG ON GAY MARRIAGE

“Proposn 8 fails to advance any ratnal basis sglg out gay men and lbians for nial of a marriage license. Darr Phillip GaylFlorida (SD)6/19/2014ActiveMale. She was sworn on June 23, 1994, durg Gay Pri Week by Print Bill Clton.

The number of LGBTQ judg servg on California state urts was up nearly 16% 2020, wh at least 73 jurists intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.