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Queer Caucus The Caucus acts as a network of LGBT Guild members and serves as a voice for LGBT issues within the NLG, sponsors forums, engages in public education projects, supports litigation, produces Sexual Orientation and the Law (published by WestGroup) and is co-sponsor of the Thomas Steel Summer Law Student Fellowship. For more information, and to join the discussion listserv, contact cochairnlgqc at gmail.com. Solomon Amendment NLG law school chapters and other Guild members are actively involved in the campaign against the Solomon Amendment, which is a Congressional attack on schools that have enforced their non-discrimination policies against the military. In January 2004, the NLG joined other groups in an amicus brief in support of a challenge to the law. Please review the information and action alert concerning a new attempt to strengthen the Solomon Amendment, from the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association. Goodridge Amicus Brief The NLG LGBT Committee is among 35 organizations (including the NLG Massachusetts Chapter) that presented an amicus brief on January 12, 2004, to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.  The legislature has asked the court to decide whether a civil unions system would cure the constitutional violations in the marriage statute that the court found in Goodridge v. Department of Pub. Health, 440 Mass. 309 (2003).  In this brief, "Amici write to make the independent point that creating a separate status for a group of people when there is no legitimate reason for doing so is inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional."   Read the Brief. (PDF - 5mb) Coors Boycott Resources Coors Boycott Action Alert NLG LGBT Committee Article re: Coors Boycott LGBT Paper in Colorado refuses to run Coors Boycott ad Transgender Resources The 2001 (Murray Scheel) and the 2002 (Claire Eustace) Thomas Steel Summer Law Student Interns worked on Protocols For The Treatment of Transgender Persons by San Francisco County Jail. Information here. At the NLG National Convention on October 13, 2001, the LGBT Committee presented a panel on transgender employment issues, and our Thomas Steel Summer Law Student Intern, Murray Scheel, presented protocols for transgender people in the criminal justice system. Phyllis Frye, attorney from Houston, TX, spoke on both prison and employment issues. Ms. Frye has a website that includes a law review article on Employment Law for Transgenders. http://transgenderlegal.com