Angela D Giampolo

January 11, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

As 2015 has drawn to a close, let's review the many ways in which the fight for equality has made historical and unprecedented progress, as well as the areas where fundamental rights of LGBT people are increasingly under siege.

By Angela D. Giampolo

8 minute read

January 09, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

As 2015 has drawn to a close, let's review the many ways in which the fight for equality has made historical and unprecedented progress, as well as the areas where fundamental rights of LGBT people are increasingly under siege.

By Angela D. Giampolo

8 minute read

December 14, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Generally, a name defines an individual. It is a sense of who you are and how you present yourself in the world. However, when a person feels that his or her name no longer represents who he or she is as a person, one must undergo the arduous legal process of a name change in order to officially correct legal identity documents, including one's driver's license, passport, a marriage certificate and deeds to real property.

By Angela D. Giampolo

4 minute read

December 12, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Generally, a name defines an individual. It is a sense of who you are and how you present yourself in the world. However, when a person feels that his or her name no longer represents who he or she is as a person, one must undergo the arduous legal process of a name change in order to officially correct legal identity documents, including one's driver's license, passport, a marriage certificate and deeds to real property.

By Angela D. Giampolo

4 minute read

November 09, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

As most political and legal advocates are aware by now, Houston voters went to the polls last week and overwhelmingly repealed the city's anti-discrimination law, Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), or as it is better known, the "bathroom bill." It is hard to imagine in these days of equality winning out over discrimination most times that the LGBT community would lose this particular ballot measure, especially by a landslide. What is even more unfortunate is the law aimed to extend civil rights protections to 15 different classes including housing, employment and public facilities (in all senses of the term) regardless of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital or military status, as well as sexuality and gender identity. It's the very last item on the list that defeated the measure and opponents did so by pulling public discussion about the law out of the realm of civil rights and into a murky world of religious liberty and possible threats posed by sexual predators.

By Angela D. Giampolo

7 minute read

November 08, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

As most political and legal advocates are aware by now, Houston voters went to the polls last week and overwhelmingly repealed the city's anti-discrimination law, Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), or as it is better known, the "bathroom bill." It is hard to imagine in these days of equality winning out over discrimination most times that the LGBT community would lose this particular ballot measure, especially by a landslide. What is even more unfortunate is the law aimed to extend civil rights protections to 15 different classes including housing, employment and public facilities (in all senses of the term) regardless of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital or military status, as well as sexuality and gender identity. It's the very last item on the list that defeated the measure and opponents did so by pulling public discussion about the law out of the realm of civil rights and into a murky world of religious liberty and possible threats posed by sexual predators.

By Angela D. Giampolo

7 minute read

October 29, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Now that the dust of the whirlwind marriage equality has settled, I want to do a check-in before we head into the end of the year and make sure that everyone has followed through on their "marriage equality" resolutions.

By Angela D. Giampolo

6 minute read

October 28, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Now that the dust of the whirlwind marriage equality has settled, I want to do a check-in before we head into the end of the year and make sure that everyone has followed through on their "marriage equality" resolutions.

By Angela D. Giampolo

6 minute read

September 14, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, disagrees with the settled law of the land and is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex Kentucky couples in violation of a federal court order.

By Angela D. Giampolo

7 minute read

September 13, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, disagrees with the settled law of the land and is refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex Kentucky couples in violation of a federal court order.

By Angela D. Giampolo

7 minute read