Angela D Giampolo

April 13, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

After coming off of a couple of years of strong pro-LGBT equality wins, the LGBT community is dazed and confused with loss after loss at the polls and in state legislatures everywhere. In the last two months, we've witnessed a wave of anti-LGBT bills filed by state legislators across the country aimed at enshrining LGBT discrimination under the guise of religious liberty.

By Angela D. Giampolo

6 minute read

April 13, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

After coming off of a couple of years of strong pro-LGBT equality wins, the LGBT community is dazed and confused with loss after loss at the polls and in state legislatures everywhere. In the last two months, we've witnessed a wave of anti-LGBT bills filed by state legislators across the country aimed at enshrining LGBT discrimination under the guise of religious liberty.

By Angela D. Giampolo

6 minute read

March 30, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The anti-LGBT rights movement has reached the height of absurdity and in doing so opens up the floodgates for people to legally channel their bigotry and hatred into the political discourse. On March 25, California Attorney General Kamala Harris asked a court to intervene and allow her to block a reprehensible ballot measure proposed by a California attorney titled the Sodomite Suppression Act (SSA), which authorizes the public to shoot gays and lesbians in the head. Yes, in the very state of California, we are dealing with a proposed law making being gay punishable by death.

By Angela D. Giampolo

7 minute read

March 29, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The anti-LGBT rights movement has reached the height of absurdity and in doing so opens up the floodgates for people to legally channel their bigotry and hatred into the political discourse. On March 25, California Attorney General Kamala Harris asked a court to intervene and allow her to block a reprehensible ballot measure proposed by a California attorney titled the Sodomite Suppression Act (SSA), which authorizes the public to shoot gays and lesbians in the head. Yes, in the very state of California, we are dealing with a proposed law making being gay punishable by death.

By Angela D. Giampolo

7 minute read

February 09, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Rainbow flags. Gay cruises. Logo TV. Domain names? The LGBT community has carved out plenty of homes for itself, but it has yet to officially claim stake in the virtual one. While the Internet has played a central role in the community for many years by providing a space to share information, meet other community members, and grow LGBT-owned businesses, creating a ".LGBT" domain had never been conceived of until recently.

By Angela D. Giampolo

6 minute read

February 08, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Rainbow flags. Gay cruises. Logo TV. Domain names? The LGBT community has carved out plenty of homes for itself, but it has yet to officially claim stake in the virtual one. While the Internet has played a central role in the community for many years by providing a space to share information, meet other community members, and grow LGBT-owned businesses, creating a ".LGBT" domain had never been conceived of until recently.

By Angela D. Giampolo

6 minute read

January 12, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities had a lot to celebrate in 2014 with amazing legislative and judicial victories as well as cultural ones. While there are truly countless victories that I could mention, here are some of the highlights.

By Angela D. Giampolo

7 minute read

January 12, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities had a lot to celebrate in 2014 with amazing legislative and judicial victories as well as cultural ones. While there are truly countless victories that I could mention, here are some of the highlights.

By Angela D. Giampolo

7 minute read

November 10, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

On Oct. 30, in some of the quickest and most efficient action I've seen in a while, Philadelphia's City Council unanimously voted 17-0 to pass an ordinance that imposes elevated punishments for violent attacks based on gender identity, sexual orientation or disability status. This was in response to the vicious antigay attacks perpetrated almost two months earlier, which saw as many as 15 people hurling antigay slurs and physically assaulting a gay couple in the Rittenhouse area of Center City.

By Angela D. Giampolo

5 minute read

October 13, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

We are wrapping up the Pride Festival whirlwind that occurs every year from May through September. The Pride events in New York City and San Francisco featured transgender celebrities Laverne Cox and Janet Mock as grand marshals; the symbolic inclusion was an attempt by Pride organizers to signal trans-inclusion. Unfortunately, Stonewall is also the starting point of the tensions between the LGB part of the community and its transgender counterparts. Nowadays, we know that two transgender women of color, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, were some of the first people to fight back at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, and therefore basically gave birth to the entire movement. However, what's rarely discussed is the degree to which transgender people continue to be marginalized within the LGBT rights struggle.

By Angela D. Giampolo

4 minute read