LGBTQ History Month: 'Memory Book' details history of 1970s-era LGBTQ attorneys in US :: Bay Area Reporter
Stephen Lachs remembers the 1970s as being a particularly wonderful era in the history of the LGBTQ liberation movement.
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Stephen Lachs remembers the 1970s as being a particularly wonderful era in the history of the LGBTQ liberation movement.
This year's list includes the likes of British military officer Lawrence of Arabia, storyteller Hans Christian Andersen and more.
This year's list includes the likes of British military officer Lawrence of Arabia, storyteller Hans Christian Andersen and more.
Pioneer, Presiding: Lachs ’63, World’s First Openly Gay Judge, Reflects June 25, 2021 Stephen Lachs sits in his chambers shortly after his 1979 appointment to the Los Angeles Superior Court. Within days of his appointment to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1979, a landmark event that made him the first openly gay judge in the world, UCLA School of Law alumnus Stephen Lachs ’63 could tell that things would never be the same. “There wasn’t much question about it,” he says today. “I immediately started getting mail, literally hundreds and hundreds of letters from peop...