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Student Organization Contact Information
Loyola/Chicago's LGBT organization is called OUTLaw. The copresidents this year are:
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Domestic Partnership Benefits
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Additional Information
From student member/president of Loyola's OUTLaw:
It may surprise some that a Jesuit law school like Loyola University Chicago School of Law is so welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender law students. The atmosphere here is positive.
Loyola's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender law student society, OUTLaw, celebrates its sixth anniversary with the 2012–2013 school year, but takes pride of place among minority law student groups. There are over 25 students within the group who self-identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Approximately 30 other OUTLaw members identify as friends and allies. The group currently has no transgender members and has had no transgender members since it was founded. OUTLaw events have included networking events, a same-sex marriage symposium, a hate crimes panel discussion cosponsored by the Latino American Law Student Society (LALSA), and semester kick-off cocktail parties. Despite the welcoming environment, attendance at OUTLaw events is, at times, disappointing. The group has, however, enjoyed some success in overcoming attendance problems through cosponsorship of events with other minority student groups.
OUTLaw receives funding from the law school to support its activities. Each year, the school also provides limited financial support to offset the travel costs of students attending the annual conference of the National LGBT Bar Association. Students attending the conference share rooms to lower expenses.
Most, but not all, professors address lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues head-on. Discussions of LGBT issues arise, for example, in constitutional law, property, family law, consumer law, international human rights, criminal law, and moot court. In the fall of 2009, the school offered a course in law and sexuality. Class discussion on same-sex marriage and other issues is often lively, spirited, and overwhelmingly positive. However, outside the classroom, students' comfort levels with such issues tend to succumb to male bravado.
Loyola's OUTLaw group and other Chicago-area LGBT law student societies are members of the currently dormant OUTLaw Coalition of Chicago (OCC). Loyola OUTLaw nonetheless maintains contact with several Chicago OUTLaw groups, often cross-promoting and opening up events to all Chicago-area law students. Loyola LGBT students also attend a monthly networking event hosted by the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LAGBAC) at a local gay bar.
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