Gender & Sex Discrimination

Our Work

Gay and Lesbian Rights

The Women’s Law Project strives to provide children of gay and lesbian parents with the same rights as children of heterosexual parents. To this end, the WLP has represented amicus curiae in support of the adoption and custody rights of lesbian parents and convened the Pennsylvania Council on Second-Parent Adoption, which monitors adoption procedures involving lesbian and gay families.

In 2006, the WLP joined the Value All Families Coalition to oppose the constitutional amendment on marriage, which could have taken away existing local legal protections for committed same-sex couples and their children, such as hospital visitation rights, inheritance rights, pension benefits and health insurance coverage. See copies of press statements. Also learn more about how this hurts Pennsylvania's families.

Activities and Accomplishments:

WLP Issues Letter in Support of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
Victims of Sex Discrimination Based on Gender Stereotyping—Even if They’re Gay
Victory in Family Law Ligitation for gay and lesbian couples in Pennsylvania: the Court of Common Pleas agreed with the Women’s Law Project’s argument that Pennsylvania legislators had no basis for suing a same-sex couple for marrying in Pennsylvania in Egolf v. Seneca, No. 2004-03160-28-5 (Bucks Cty. C.P. Oct. 19, 2004).