The 2024 election will be a turning point for LGBTQ rights and LGBTQ voters make up a significant voting bloc. Join us for a discussion on the election of LGBTQ-supportive lawmakers, the political influence of LGBTQ voters, and the implications for our democracy and LGBTQ law and policy in the coming years. 

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Winners of the 2024 Dukeminier Awards are leading legal scholars shaping LGBTQ law and policy through their publications. Join our virtual event featuring their award-winning work. Co-hosted by UCLA Law’s Dukeminier Awards Journal. Co-sponsored by UCLA Law’s OUTLaw and QTPOCC.  

  
This virtual event will feature Professor Scott Skinner-Thompson for "Identity by Committee," Professor Chan Tov McNamarah for "Cis-Woman-Protective Arguments," Professor Ari Waldman for "Disorderly Content," Professor Lisa Washington for "Weaponizing Fear," and 2023 Student Note Winner Alex Johnson for "Curious Continuity." 
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1 hour of MCLE credit.

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Across vast swaths of the United States, “legal vigilantism” is transforming how Americans work, have fun, study, love, and participate in the civic and political life of their communities and their country. Relying on PTA moms, soccer dads, abortion snitches, and heavily armed white nationalist militiamen, MAGA officials at the state and local levels are deputizing citizen culture warriors to intimidate, harass, and punish women, racial and religious minorities, and LGBTQ+ people who make dignity and equality demands that threaten white Christian political and cultural power. 

 

Join Professors Jon Michaels and Lindsay Wiley, along with Shane Ball LAW ’26, to discuss Jon’s new book Vigilante Nation and explore what the resurgence in state-sponsored vigilantism means for our communities—and our democracy.

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. MCLE credit is available for this webinar.

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LGBTQ+ youth experience challenges in maintaining sufficient access to food. Community-based youth organizations often help address this need by providing emergency food, enrolling young people in safety net programs, assisting finding youth jobs and building careers, connecting youth with housing, and other long-term supports. Join us for a discussion of findings from recent research on LGBTQ+ youth food insecurity, strategies community organizations use to address food access, and current government programs that could help.

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The Williams Institute's 2024 NYC Fall Salon will take place on Thursday, September 12 from 6:00-8:30 PM at the Meta office in Hudson Yards.

We invite you to join our discussion on the current state of LGBTQ+ law and policy and what’s at stake in the upcoming November election and beyond.
 
For tickets to our 2024 NYC Fall Salon, please visit: https://bit.ly/NYCFallSalon24RSVP ends on September 4, 2024.
 

For more information, please contact Williamsdev@law.ucla.edu.

Williams Institute researchers, with collaborators from Yale University, surveyed the mainland Chinese public about their familiarity with and acceptance of LGBTQ people. Researchers also asked participants about their attitudes toward policy issues such as discrimination at work, same-sex marriage, and same-sex couples raising children—areas where China does not currently recognize the legal rights of LGBTQ people. This webinar presents results from the survey and features a discussion on the meaning and implications of these findings to China’s LGBTQ population today.

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Join OUTLaw and APILSA on Thursday, April 4th @ 3:15 p.m. in Law Room 1337 for a short film screening of Baby Gay and Fish, with a Q+A after with Baby Gay's film creators Melissa Peng and Arielle Frances Bagood afterward!

Baby GayStevie Lee (played by Valerie Yu) is desperate to finally prove her bisexuality, planning to bluff her way into a lesbian threesome thinking she'll "figure it out" when she gets there. She does not figure it out when she gets there. BabyGay is a short film written by Melissa Peng and directed by Arielle Frances Bagood. 
Baby Gay was both an official selection and winner of the "Best LGBTQ Short"  Award at the 2024 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and is an official selection at the 2024 Sonoma International Film Festival. 
FishThough Tiger (played by Patrick Zhang) would never admit it, sometimes he regrets cutting off his mother after their falling out. Sometimes he wishes he had the courage to return her calls. But it's too late now. She's dead. However, on the day of her funeral, Tiger's mother returns to Earth... in the body of his goldfish. Her final wish? For Tiger to attend the mother-son dance with her. Now Tiger must help his (uh... fish? Mom?) Fish/Mom, all the while finding the strength within himself to fight for the second chance he's always wanted. Fish is a short film written by Jeremy Hsing and Patrick Zhang, and directed by Jeremy Hsing. 
Fish was an official selection at the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles' May 2023 Film Festival InFocus: Asian Cinema, awarded Best Fantasy Short and awarded Honorable Mentions for Best Original Story and Best Actor at the 2023 Independent Shorts Awards, an official selection at the 2023 Hollywood Shorts Festival, 2023 Film Invasion Los Angeles (and winner of the 2023 Audience Award), 2023 Astoria Film Festival (and winner of the 2023 Grand Jury Prize), 46th Asian American International Film Festival (2023), and the 2023 Boston Asian American Film Festival. 
After the Q+A, we will provide a more chill, relaxed social time for OUTLaw and APILSA members to hang out and vibe. 3

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Food is provided when you RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13eARFnMIbfQj_Klk1ZBK7cv3DxLUcmiteexyWe15E6U/

The Williams Institute DC Spring Reception is hosted at the offices of King & Spalding in Washington, DC.

We invite you to join us to celebrate Williams Institute's research and accomplishments on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

For more information, please contact Williamsdev@law.ucla.edu.

Reserve a ticket at https://bit.ly/2024dcreception.