LEGAL RESOURCES
The following organizations may provide useful to you or your organization.
Chicago Area
Center on Halsted, Legal Clinic and Referrals: centeronhalsted.org
Chicago Bar Association: chicagobar.org
Equality Illinois: equalityillinois.org
Howard Brown Health Center: howardbrown.org
Illinois State Bar Association: isba.org
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago: lafchicago.org
Legal Council for Health Justice: legalcouncil.org
LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois: 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 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
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
LGBT 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 LGBT 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
LGBT Law Student Resources
LGBT Student Scholarship Database: hrc.org
Law School Admission Council (LSAC), LGBT Law School Applicants: lsac.org
Press
The Advocate: advocate.com
Windy City Times: windycitytimes.com