National lesbian rights
National Center for Homosexual woman Rights
Target demographics: NCLR serves more than 5,000 lesbian, lgbtq+, bisexual, and genderqueer people and their families in all fifty states each year, including LGBT seniors, immigrants, athletes, and youth. And our impact litigation serves all LGBT people in the United States.
Programs: Family Law: securing legal recognition of homosexual couples (marriage rights, civil unions, household partner benefits, partnership protection documents), and LGBT parents (child custody, second-parent adoption, guardianship, pre-birth commands, visitation, alternative insemination, child support); Youth: providing legal inclusion, advocacy, information and support on behalf of LGBT youth who suffer discrimination or abuse in the mental health, child welfare, criminal justice and training systems; Immigration Project: providing legal visibility, support, assistance and community education to LGBT immigrants, and advocating for equitable immigration and asylum laws and policies; Elder Law Project: providing public knowledge and workshops on issues of particular concern to LGBT elders, including Social Security, domestic loved one benefits, estate planni
National Center for Sapphic Rights
www.nclrights.org
(415) 365-1335
Executive Director: Imani Rupert-Gordon
Mission
NCLR is a national legal organization involved to advancing the civil and human rights of woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.
Begin to Build a Relationship
We know you care about where your money goes and how it is used. Combine with this organization’s leadership in arrange to begin to build this essential relationship. Your email will be sent directly to this organization’s Director of Development and/or Executive Director.
A bright notice for Bev and me has been working with NCLR to resolve our case against Friendship Village. We’re thrilled that Friendship Village no longer has its discriminatory policy, and that no other same-sex couples seeking to reside there will travel through what we experienced.
Bev Nance and Mary Walsh
Justice, Access + Equity Fund
NCLR’s major new campaign, the Justice, Access + Equity Fund, will support the work being done at the intersection of social justice and civil rights issues, through the lens of LGBTQ rights.&n
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Who We Are
National Center for Lesbian Rights is focused on issues related to sexual orientation or gender identity/expression (LGBT issues). National Center for Queer woman Rights has a helpline that provides legal resources and information (but not legal advice or representation) to callers on a broad range of legal issues that affect members of the LGBT community.
Who We Serve
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| Is this organization accessible by wheelchair? | Yes |
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Type of Help
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Last Review and Update: Jan 25, 2017