“The Future of LGBT Rights in Tennessee: Organizing, Educating and Litigating” - October 4, 2007

“The Future of LGBT Rights in Tennessee: Organizing, Educating and Litigating” is the topic of the John Googin Memorial Lecture at ACLU-TN’s annual meeting on October 4, 2007.  The meeting will run from 6:00 to 7:30 at the Green Hills Branch Library (3701 Benham Avenue, Nashville, TN 37215). Christine Sun, ACLU-TN LGBT Project Attorney, will discuss her current work, as well as future strategies for building a strong coalition to secure the rights of LGBT people in Tennessee. 

Noted gay rights attorney Christine Sun leads the ACLU’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights work in the south, working out of ACLU of Tennessee’s office in Nashville. She has worked on LGBT and AIDS issues for the ACLU in California since 2004, especially on cases involving the rights of LGBT students. Her cases have been featured in the New York Times , The Los Angeles Times , Anderson Cooper 360 , Cosmo Girl and MTV News.

Before joining the ACLU Sun graduated with honors from NYU School of Law in 1998, clerked for Judge Robert L. Carter (former NAACP General Counsel who argued Brown v. Board of Education ) and then worked for Keker & Van Nest, a complex litigation firm in San Francisco.

“I’m very excited to be in Nashville and to be concentrating my work in the south,” said Sun. “While gay people continue to face discrimination in California, the law is more settled in favor of LGBT people there. There is a lot of important work to be done on behalf of LGBT people in the southern states, and I look forward to the challenge.”

The event is free and open to the public.

DIRECTIONS: From I-440, take Exit 3—the 21st Avenue South/Hillsboro Road exit. Merge south onto Hillsboro Road. Turn left at the stoplight onto Glen Echo. Turn left onto Benham Avenue. The library will be on your left.   Parking is available in the library lot.