The following organizations may provide useful to you or your organization.
Chicago Area
Center for Disability & Elder Law: www.cdelaw.org
Center on Halsted, Legal Clinic and Referrals: www.centeronhalsted.org
Chicago Bar Association: chicagobar.org
Cook County Bar Association (CCBA) LGBTQ Section: www.cookcountybar.org/
Equality Illinois: equalityillinois.org
Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois – LGBT Rights Committee www.hlai.org/groups/lgbt-rights-committee
Howard Brown Health Center: howardbrown.org
Illinois State Bar Association: isba.org
Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee: www.isba.org/
Legal Aid Chicago: legalaidchicago.org
Legal Council for Health Justice: legalcouncil.org
LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois: www.lgbtcc.com
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), Name Change Project: tldef.org
National
AIDS United: aidsunited.org
American Bar Association: americanbar.org
American Bar Association, Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: www.americanbar.org/
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): aclu.org
ACLU, LGBT Rights: aclu.org
ACLU, HIV: aclu.org
ACLU of Illinois: aclu-il.org
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD): glad.org
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD): glaad.org
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN): glsen.org
Human Rights Campaign (HRC): hrc.org
Immigration Equality: immigrationequality.org
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund: lambdalegal.org
Lavender Law Conference: https://lgbtbar.org/annual
Log Cabin Republicans: logcabin.org
National Center for Lesbian Rights: nclrights.org
National Center for Transgender Equality: transequality.org
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF): thetaskforce.org
National LGBT Bar Association: lgbtbar.org
National LGBT Bar Association, Annual Conference (Lavender Law): lgbtbar.org
National Minority AIDS Council: nmac.org
Palm Center, Blueprints for Sound Public Policy: palmcenter.org
Transgender Law Center: transgenderlawcenter.org
International
International Association of LGBT Judges: ialgbtj.org
OutRight Action International: outrightinternational.org
Employment and Housing Discrimination
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: eeoc.gov
Illinois Department of Human Rights: illinois.gov
LGBTQ+ Military/Veteran Resources
American Veterans for Equal Rights: aver.us
OutServe Service Member’s Legal Defense Network (SLDN): outserve-sldn.org
Transgender American Veterans Association: transveteran.org
Judicial Candidate Evaluations
Vote for Judges: voteforjudges.org
Chicago Area LGBTQ+ Law Student Groups
DePaul University College of Law, Outlaws: law.depaul.edu
IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law, Lambdas: kentlaw.iit.edu
John Marshall Law School, OUTLaw: jmls.edu
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, OUTLaw: luc.edu/law
Northern Illinois University College of Law: niu.edu/law
Northwestern University School of Law, OUTLaw: law.northwestern.edu
Southern Illinois University, Legalss: law.siu.edu
University of Chicago Law School, OutLaw: law.uchicago.edu
University of Illinois College of Law, OUTLAW: law.illinois.edu