Pneer, Pridg: Lachs ’63, World’s First Openly Gay Judge, Reflects | UCLA Law

Contents:

• WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE
• DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• TOP INDIA URT BACKS GAY LAWYER'S APPOTMENT OVER T OBJECTNS
• PNEER, PRIDG: LACHS ’63, WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE, REFLECTS
• PATRICK BUMATAY, OPENLY GAY TMP NOMEE, NFIRMED TO 9TH CIRCU
• SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM FIRM ON APPOTG GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL AS HIGH COURT JUDGE
• APPOTMENT OF GAY JUDGE TOUCH OFF UPROAR

WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE

She will be the first openly gay member of that High Court judg, Mr Jtice Charl Meenan and Ms Jtice Tara Burns, have been nomated for appotment by the Print to the Court of nomatns follow the Government’s acceptance of remendatns of the Judicial Planng Workg Group to crease judicial nomatn of barrister Ann-Marie Courell as unty registrar for unti Mayo and Rosmon was also approved on Tuday. Ziegler told the mtee thatl he cid to e forward publicly “not as a hero or a victim, ” but as a married, gay Democrat “pelled to disclose the tth. The Supreme Court Collegium has reerated s November 2021 remendatn to appot senr advote Srabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, as a judge of the Delhi High Court.

India crimalised homosexualy on 6 September 2018.

DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED

No, if you ask, senr advote Srabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, whose appotment as judge of the Delhi high urt ntu to be layed. Kirpal is an openly gay senr advote who has been practisg for more than two s. Related Articl He was part of a team of lawyers that reprented Sunil Mehra and Navtej Sgh Johar, the now well-known petners the historic se which the Supreme Court (SC) stck down the lonial-era Sec 377, which crimalised homosexualy.

In a letter dated 1 April 2021, the law mister stated that though homosexualy stands -crimalised India, nohels same-sex marriage remas bereft of regnn eher dified statutory law or undified personal law India.

The Centre also apprehend that given Kirpal’s “attachment” to the e of gay rights, the possibily of Kirpal’s bias and prejudice nnot be led out, Live Law reports. Also read: Homosexualy vs same-sex marriag: India’s one step forward, two steps backwards. “I don’t thk the ernment necsarily wants to appot an openly gay person to the bench, ” he told the news channel.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

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.

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn's 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. But the proposal was sent back by the ernment last ernment says Kirpal's "arnt volvement and passnate attachment to the e of gay-rights" uld fluence his cisns and also objected to his ndidature sce his partner is a Swiss Supreme Court llegium, prisg India's chief jtice and two other senr judg, refuted both objectns om the ernment and reerated s remendatn for Kirpal's appotment. "There is no reason to pre-suppose that the partner of the ndidate, who is a Swiss Natnal, would be imilly disposed to our untry, sce the untry of his orig is a iendly natn, " the llegium said a statement, also credg Kirpal for his openly gay stance.

If elected, Kirpal would be India's first openly gay 's lonial-era ban on gay sex was scrapped 2018, but members of India's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny still pla of a lack of acceptance and discrimatn Indian top urt's support at a time when senr officials the ernment have said they want to have a bigger role choosg judg, a mand several lawyers and judg say threatens the pennce of the ernment has recently held back on approvg several ndidat, whout givg a reason.

TOP INDIA URT BACKS GAY LAWYER'S APPOTMENT OVER T OBJECTNS

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’.

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.

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.

PATRICK BUMATAY, OPENLY GAY TMP NOMEE, NFIRMED TO 9TH CIRCU

Six years apart age, Lachs and Schrar had fact met at that early-1970s gatherg of gay law stunts, when Lachs me out. Circu Court of Appeals on Tuday, elevatg Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay Filipo man, to the feral bench over objectns om his liberal home-state senators.

The Supreme Court Collegium on Thursday stood firm by s rolve to have the ernment appot openly gay lawyer Srabh Kirpal as Delhi High Court judge, sayg every dividual is “entled to mata their own digny and dividualy based on sexual orientatn” three-member Collegium of Chief Jtice D. Kirpal’s partner beg a Swiss natnal, that they have an “timate relatnship” and the lawyer is “open about his sexual orientatn” ernment, the Collegium said, was also worried that same-sex marriage was not regnised India though “homosexualy stands crimalised”.

Kirpal’s “arnt volvement and passnate attachment to gay rights” did not le out the “possibily of bias and prejudice”. Kirpal would be India’s first openly gay judge a High Court.

SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM FIRM ON APPOTG GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL AS HIGH COURT JUDGE

DALLAS -- The appotment of an avowed homosexual as a state distict urt judge has touched off a firtorm of censure om crics and a flurry of applse om supporters heraldg the first openly gay judge Texas history. 'Richards' appotment of a gay activist is clearly a polil payback to one of the many liberal tert groups who supported her, ' Driegert said. Birdwell has said publicy that he is gay but otherwise ref to discs his personal life.

But bis Driegert's statements, gay and lbian activists' vol support of the 49-year-old Birdwell have ma the new judge's private life a matter of public discsn.

'Jerry Birdwell's name has been kicked around several tim as someone who is not only gay but who is qualified to serve as a judge, ' said Kay Vson, a Dallas gay rights activist. Activists are g Birdwell's name as a drawg rd to a fund- raiser for gay and lbian next month Dallas.

APPOTMENT OF GAY JUDGE TOUCH OFF UPROAR

Richards, who met last January wh gay and lbian activists to discs Birdwell's possible appotment, sists that sexual orientatn is not a factor when she mak appotments.