Word: lambda
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...case, and a similar one pending in Illinois, could set new precedents for the rights of nonbiological or "psychological" parents. Steve Scarborough, a lawyer for the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, which promotes homosexual rights and is representing Kazmierazak, says courts in New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have "recognized the harm that comes to children when relationships with nonbiological parents are severed...
...course of the council year, we have dealt with our share of political issues as well. We have supported divestment from major oil companies, the Lambda Legal Defense Fund effort to legalize gay marriages, and the living wage campaign for Harvard employees. We have also dealt effectively with on campus political issues such as the current policy on rape and sexual assault, and this week, we hope to continue that trend when the council navigates its way through a contentious debate on ROTC's status on campus...
...fact that the only time this country seems to take notice of the discrimination gay people face is when a tragedy like this occurs is, in my opinion, a tragedy in itself," said Seth J. Persily, former co-chair of Lambda, an organization of queer students at the Law School...
BGLTSA board members also signed a "marriage resolution," issued by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund...
...Galluccio aren't the first American gay partners to adopt jointly. Judges in other states, including California, have quietly allowed such adoptions in the past, according to the A.C.L.U.'s Michael Adams, the point man on the New Jersey case. And according to a 1996 report by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay legal-rights group, courts in 21 states have approved so-called second-parent adoptions, or adoptions by the partners of individuals who have given birth to or who have already adopted a child. (This was the lengthy double-adoption procedure that Holden and Galluccio...