Lambda Legal Forum, 1982
Title
Lambda Legal Forum, 1982
Description
Lambda Legal was established on October 18, 1973 and is the oldest and largest organization dedicated to litigating gay rights claims, and has played a major role in shaping the outcome of gay rights claims. Lambda has won precedent-setting civil rights issues ranging from marriage equality to expressions of gender identity to health care discrimination.
This video, Lambda Legal Forum 4, dated October 28, 1982, depicts a panel discussion between Rosalyn Richter, the then Executive Director and attorney for Lambda Legal, and Rhonda Copelon, the then an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and law professor at CUNY Law School moderated by David A.J. Richards, a teacher of Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy at NYU School of Law. This discussion succeeds the Supreme Court’s 1980 decision in Harris v. McCrae, which established that the constitutional right to decide to end a pregnancy (recognized in Roe v. Wade in 1973) did not mean an equality right to have Medicaid cover abortion care.
Ricther and Copelon also discuss how to develop arguments to challenge criminal sodomy laws, how arguments about religion and morality might be separated in the context of Victorian-era morality laws, and how to advance the custody and visitation rights of lesbian and gay parents (those coming out of different-sex marriages) in the face of widespread assumptions that lesbian, gay and bisexual people are immoral and pose threats to children.
This video, Lambda Legal Forum 4, dated October 28, 1982, depicts a panel discussion between Rosalyn Richter, the then Executive Director and attorney for Lambda Legal, and Rhonda Copelon, the then an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and law professor at CUNY Law School moderated by David A.J. Richards, a teacher of Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy at NYU School of Law. This discussion succeeds the Supreme Court’s 1980 decision in Harris v. McCrae, which established that the constitutional right to decide to end a pregnancy (recognized in Roe v. Wade in 1973) did not mean an equality right to have Medicaid cover abortion care.
Ricther and Copelon also discuss how to develop arguments to challenge criminal sodomy laws, how arguments about religion and morality might be separated in the context of Victorian-era morality laws, and how to advance the custody and visitation rights of lesbian and gay parents (those coming out of different-sex marriages) in the face of widespread assumptions that lesbian, gay and bisexual people are immoral and pose threats to children.
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1 video
Language
English
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