LEGAL RESOURCES
The following organizations/links may provide useful to you or your organization.

Chicago Area
AIDS Legal Council of Chicago: http://www.aidslegal.com
Chicago Bar Association: http://www.chicagobar.org

Committee on the Rights of Lesbian and Gay Men: http://chicagobar.org/member/committee/com

Equality Illinois: http://www.equalityillinois.org
Howard Brown Health Center: http://www.howardbrown.org
Illinois State Bar Association: http://www.isba.org
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (HIV/AIDS Project): http://lafchicago.org

National
AIDS Action Council: http://www.aidsaction.org
American Bar Association: http://www.abanet.org

Individual Rights Section: http://www.abanet.org/irr/home.html
Young Lawyers Division: http://www.abanet.org/yld/home.html

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): http://aclu.org

ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project: http://aclu.org
ACLU HIV/AIDS Project: http://aclu.org/hiv/index.html

ACLU Illinois Chapter: http://www.aclu-il.org
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD): http://www.glad.org
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD): http://www.glaad.org
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN): http://www.glsen.org
Human Rights Campaign (HRC): http://www.hrc.org
Immigration Equality: http://www.immigrationequality.org
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund: http://www.lambdalegal.org
Log Cabin Republicans: http://www.logcabin.org/logcabin/home.html
National Center for Lesbian Rights: http://www.nclrights.org
National Center for Transgender Equality: http://www.nctequality.org
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF): http://thetaskforce.org
The National LGBT Bar Association (formerly NLGLA): http://www.lgbtbar.org/
Career Fair and Conference (formerly Lav Law): http://www.lgbtbar.org/annual/
National Minority AIDS Council: http://www.nmac.org/home
Stonewall Democrats: http://www.stonewalldemocrats.org
Transgender Law Center: http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org

International
International Association of Lesbian and Gay Judges: http://home.att.net/~ialgj/ialgjbody.html
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission: http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc

Employment and Housing Discrimination
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: http://eeoc.gov
Illinois Department of Human Rights: http://www.state.il.us/dhr

Marriage Equality
Freedom to Marry: http://www.freedomtomarry.org
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Marriage Center: http://thetaskforce.org

GLBT Military/Veteran Resources
American Veterans for Equal Rights: http://www.aver.us
Michael C. Palm Center - "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Project: http://www.palmcenter.org
Military Education Initiative: http://www.military-education.org
Service Member's Legal Defense Network: http://www.sldn.org/templates/index.html
Transgender American Veterans Association: "http://www.tavausa.or"

Judicial Candidate Evaluations
Vote for Judges: http://voteforjudges.org

Chicago Area GLBT Law Student Groups
DePaul University College of Law: http://www.law.depaul.edu
IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law Lambdas: http://www.kentlaw.edu/student_orgs/lambda
John Marshall Law School Gay and Lesbian Legal Alliance (GALLA):

http://www.jmls.edu/students/organizations/galla.shtml

Loyola University of Chicago School of Law OUTLaw: http://www.luc.edu/law/activities/orgs/outlaw.shtml Northern Illinois University College of Law: http://law.niu.edu
Northwestern University School of Law OUTLaw: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lga
Southern Illinois University: http://www.law.siu.edu
University of Chicago Law School OUTLaw: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Life/outlaw.html
University of Illinois College of Law Sexual Orientation and Legal Issues Society (SOLIS):

http://www.law.uiuc.edu/students/solis/index.asp

GLBT Law Student Resources
GLBT Scholarship Resources: http://www.washburn.edu/sobu/broach/glbt-scholar.html
Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Information for GLBT Law School Applicants: http://www.lsac.org

Press
The Advocate: http://advocate.com
Chicago Free Press: http://www.chicagofreepress.com
Windy City Times: http://windycitytimes.com/windycitytimes.html

Business
Chicago Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce: http://www.glchamber.org/index.asp

Legal Research Resources
Lesbian/Gay Law Notes: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/usa/legal/lgln
Law & Sexuality Journal at Tulane University Law School: http://www.law.tulane.edu
National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law: http://www.ibiblio.org/gaylaw
Queer Law: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/legal
Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy: http://www.law.ucla.edu/