lgbtq rights
Despite gains in recent decades for LGBTQ rights, queer and transgender people still face discrimination.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—especially communities of color, transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, immigrants, and youth—are disproportionately living in poverty and being targeted for violence. Additionally, institutional homophobia and transphobia create barriers to housing, health care, public benefits, employment, and financial stability.
778
LGBTQ clients worked with NYLAG on legal issues ranging from name changes to estate planning last year
Services
NYLAG’s lawyers have strong partnerships with the LGBTQ and social services communities, and can
help in the following ways:
- Representing LGBTQ immigrants in applications for asylum, family-based petitions, and petitions for survivors of intimate partner violence and other crimes
- Supporting transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming clients with name and gender marker changes
- Representing LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence
- Working with parents seeking second parent adoptions
- Fighting against employment and housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Protecting LGBTQ seniors by executing advanced directives
Need free legal services or financial counseling?
Help us provide free legal help to LGBTQ communities.
NYLAG is part of the solution for LGBTQ communities
NYLAG’s New Visual Identity. Why now?
Since 1990, The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) has worked tirelessly to make the voices of individuals and families
NYLAG’s first Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer
Caprice Jenerson has become NYLAG’s first-ever Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer.
Job discrimination is an LGBTQ issue
In honor of Pride Month, Heather Betz, Director of NYLAG’s LGBTQ Law Project, discusses employment discrimination.
