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A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX PRI MONTH, 2023
When Arthur Leonard first me to New York Law School 1982, only one state banned discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, gay sex was illegal half the untry, and only a handful of lawyers were actively ligatg sexual orientatn discrimatn s. Over the past 40 years, Profsor Leonard has wrten numero articl on employment law, AIDS law, and lbian and gay law, cludg an fluential law review article 1985 on AIDS discrimatn that helped form the natn’s legal rponse to the AIDS epimic. A equent natnal spokperson on sexual orientatn law, and an expert on the rapidly emergg area of gay fay law, he is also a ntributg wrer for Gay Cy News, New York’s weekly lbian and gay newspaper, and has wrten for several other lbian and gay newspapers New York Cy.
Profsor Leonard has held a variety of fluential and activist posns civic and legal anizatns, cludg tstee of Lambda Legal, tstee of the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi at the Cy Universy of New York, and chair of the Sectn on Gay and Lbian Legal Issu of the Associatn of Amerin Law Schools.