Distguished Trial Lawyer Fah Gay (JD '86) to Addrs Class of 2020 - Northwtern Przker School of Law News

Contents:

• DISTGUISHED TRIAL LAWYER FAH GAY (JD ’86) TO ADDRS CLASS OF 2020
• FAH GAY RECEIV LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD OM CORPORATE COUNSEL
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• A NEW CLASH BETWEEN FAH AND GAY RIGHTS ARRIV AT A CHANGED SUPREME COURT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
• NORTHWTERN ANNOUNC THE FAH E. GAY AND FRANC ZAMBELLO CHAIR SOCIAL JTICE
• SELENDY & GAY, NOW WH 50 LIGATORS, ADDS MORE NAME PARTNERS
• SELENDY & GAY CHANG NAME TO REFLECT ELEVATN OF JENNIFER SELENDY AND DAVID ELSBERG

DISTGUISHED TRIAL LAWYER FAH GAY (JD ’86) TO ADDRS CLASS OF 2020

Northwtern Przker School of Law is pleased to announce that acclaimed trial lawyer and advote Fah Gay (JD ’86) will liver the nvotn addrs to the Class of 2020.

She is a foundg partner of Selendy & Gay, an ele, majory female-owned ligatn firm New York Cy. Before foundg Selendy & Gay, Fah -chaired the Natnal Trial Practice at Qun Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and was a partner at Whe & Case and Sidley At. Selendy Gay Elsberg Partner Temidayo Aganga-Williams was award the tle of Risg Star by New York Law Journal, which regniz the regn’s most promisg lawyers unr 40.

Selendy Gay Elsberg Office Collectn. Fah Gay, foundg partner of Selendy Gay Elsberg, has been chosen for a Lifetime Achievement Award by Corporate Counsel as part of s 2022 Women, Influence & Power Law Awards.

FAH GAY RECEIV LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD OM CORPORATE COUNSEL

Fah has long shown a mment to expandg opportuny for women, people of lor, and LGBTQ+ profsnals—most recently the foundg of Selendy Gay Elsberg, where women hold 50 percent of equy and women, people of lor, and LGBTQ+ profsnals hold the bulk of learship posns the firm’s partner, associate, C-sue, and staff ranks.

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.

A NEW CLASH BETWEEN FAH AND GAY RIGHTS ARRIV AT A CHANGED SUPREME COURT

Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab".

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

"We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

"The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of... Gay paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma says.

RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?

Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.

NORTHWTERN ANNOUNC THE FAH E. GAY AND FRANC ZAMBELLO CHAIR SOCIAL JTICE

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says. FWI's Mormon founr Sharon Slater ni that the group promot anti-gay laws Ai.

She c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic. "It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy". AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA New Clash Between Fah and Gay Rights Arriv at a Changed Supreme CourtA Colorado graphic signer says she has a First Amendment right to refe to create webs for same-sex weddgs spe a state anti-discrimatn law.

“When I chose to start my own bs as an artist to create ctom exprsn, I did not surrenr my First Amendment rights, ” Lorie Smh Woolf for The New York TimFollow our live verage of the Supreme Court heargs that ps ee speech agast gay rights. — Ten years ago, a Colorado baker named Jack Phillips turned away a gay uple who had asked him for a weddg ke, sayg that a state law forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn mt yield to his dispute, a whe-hot flash pot the culture wars, ma to the Supreme Court.

SELENDY & GAY, NOW WH 50 LIGATORS, ADDS MORE NAME PARTNERS

Supporters of gay rights fear that a lg for Ms. ImageJack Phillips turned away a gay uple who had asked him for a weddg ke 10 years ago, rultg a lawsu that ma to the Supreme Cote for The New York TimImageCharlie Craig, left, and David Mulls, the uple who requted a weddg ke by Mr. Smh are reprented by Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian law firm and advocy group that has ligated many s for clients opposed to abortn, ntraceptn verage, and gay and transgenr Weiser, Colorado’s attorney general, said there was an important difference between the Masterpiece Cakhop se and the new one.

In the Masterpiece Cakhop se, Profsor Carpenter filed a brief supportg the gay uple along wh Eugene Volokh of the Universy of California, Los the new se, they took Ms.

SELENDY & GAY CHANG NAME TO REFLECT ELEVATN OF JENNIFER SELENDY AND DAVID ELSBERG

Profsor Carpenter did so, he explaed an terview, part bee he has voted his reer to the e of advancg gay rights. More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Jtic Face A New Clash On Gay Rights. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.