by Matthew Coles

About the author: Matthew Coles is the director of the Lesbian & Gay Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.

My name is Matthew Coles. I am the Director of the Lesbian & Gay Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. I am here for my ACLU colleagues from across the nation, and for my colleagues at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

We are the lawyers who handle most of the cases involving discrimination against lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. We are the people who represent the X-Ray technician in eastern Washington who never knew a day of peace at work and was eventually hounded out of her job by a supervisor who hated her...