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Welcome to API Equality-LA!
API Equality-LA is a coalition of organizations and individuals working in the local Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community to build support for the right of same-sex couples to marry. From its founding in 2005, API Equality-LA has uniquely bridged the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community with the civil rights and other social justice communities, united by a common understanding of the parallels between past anti-miscegenation and current marriage equality struggles.
API Equality-LA is a partner with many other statewide and local coalitions, including API Equality and API Equality-San Francisco.
To learn more about API Equality-LA, click here.
Asian American Amicus Brief In Support Of Marriage Equality
Led by API Equality-LA and several other organizations, a coalition of 63 local, state, and national Asian American organizations have filed a legal brief in California in support of equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.
The Asian American amicus (friend of the court) brief supports basic fairness for same-sex couples and their families, drawing from the Asian American community's own past struggle with anti-miscegenation laws in the state of California.
The amicus brief was filed in the consolidated California Marriage Cases, currently pending before the California Supreme Court. The California Marriage Cases are historic lawsuits urging the California courts to end the exclusion of loving and committed same-sex couples from marriage.
To view the press release, click here. To read the brief, click here.
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