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Roberta Kaplan, legendary LGBTQ+ rights lawyer, leaves her firm amid misconduct allegations

Kaplan, who brought down DOMA, denies the accusations and says she's leaving to start a smaller, more nimble firm.

14 Supreme Court decisions that changed the landscape for LGBTQ+ rights

Several of them came on today's date, June 26.

Don't fear Donald Trump, say the women who won an $83 million damages award

"He's nothing," says E. Jean Carroll, who sued Trump for claiming she was lying about being raped by him.

E. Jean Carroll Wins Another Defamation Verdict Against Donald Trump

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Trump had defamed Carroll by saying she was lying about having been sexually assaulted by him.

Meet Roberta Kaplan, the lesbian lawyer who won a verdict against Donald Trump

Kaplan is most famous as the lawyer who brought down the Defense of Marriage Act.

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17 Women Who Changed the Course of LGBTQ+ History

For Women's History Month, we salute activists who've made LGBTQ+ history from the 1950s through the 2020s.