The Coffee Table Book Chronicles Transformative Legal Cases from 1973 to 2023, Defining Pivotal Moments in LGBTQ+ History NEW YORK , Oct. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lambda Legal , the oldest and largest nonprofit legal organization dedicated to achieving full civil rights recognition for LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV, is set to release its first-ever coffee table book, Making the Case for Equality: 50 Years of Legal Milestones in LGBTQ+ History (The Monacelli Press; ISBN: 978-1-58093-614-9; $59.95 ; Hardback), on October 29, 2024 .
Authored by Lambda Legal's most senior attorney, Jennifer C. Pizer , and leading political scientist Ellen Ann Andersen , Making the Case for Equality opens Lambda Legal's archives to present a richly illustrated commemorative book celebrating 50 years of trailblazing advocacy. The book highlights dozens of landmark legal cases that have expanded civil rights for LGBTQ+ people, shaping key areas such as education, employment, marriage, healthcare, housing, and military service.
Significant cases featured in the book include: Nabozny v. Podlesny (1996): The breakthrough victory that school officials must protect students from persistent anti-LGBTQ+ bullying rather than assuming "boys will be boys." Lawrence v.
Texas (2003): Decriminalized private consensual same-sex intimacy nationwide, overturning state sodomy laws and paving the way for LGBTQ+ civil rights progress. Taylor v. Rice (2008): Forced the U.
S. Foreign Service to stop discriminati.
