An excerpt of From the Closet to the Courtoom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation

NOW IN PAPERBACK, read two sections from Chapter 2 of From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation by Carlos A. Ball (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0153).

Jamie Nabozny was a gay teenager who was viciously harassed by other students while school officials looked the other way. He sued his former school (Nabozny v. Podlesny), so other students wouldn't go what he went through. After a trial court dismissed the lawsuit, Lambda Legal took over the case and brought it to a federal appeals court, which determined that the case should go back to trial. A jury “concluded that school officials treated Jamie with indifference and neglect because he was a gay boy.” Read the story of Jamie Nabozny and the impact the lawsuit across the nation.