Glenn Duque Magpantay (born 1969) is the former executive director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, an instructor at Brooklyn Law School and Hunter College/CUNY, and a former civil rights attorney in the role of Democracy Program director for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. [1] In 2023, Glenn D Magpantay was appointed as a Commissioner to the United States Commission on Civil Rights by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer. [2] He is chair of the LGBT Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York, [3] former co-chair of the Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York, [4] and recognized as an "authority on the federal Voting Rights Act and expert on Asian American political participation, including bilingual ballots, election reform, minority voter discrimination, multilingual exit polling, and census." [3] He has served as a commissioner on the New York City Voter Assistance Commission. [5] He is also a contributing writer for the Huffington Post . [4] The Glenn Magpantay Leadership Award at his undergraduate alma mater, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is named after him. [6]
Magpantay was born to Dr. Rudolfo I. Magpantay and Dr. Esmeralda Duque-Magpantay. [7]
Magpantay earned his Bachelor's in Sociology & Social Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He earned his jurisdoctorate at Boston's New England School of Law, [4] graduating cum laude. [8]
In 1991, Magpantay worked for Midwest Academy and US Student Association as a GROW grassroots organizing trainer. He transitioned to the role of community organizer at the Long Island Progressive Coalition in 1993, where he also ran its Political Action Committee (PAC). He next served as executive director at the University of California Student Association, [9] then as an immigration law clerk at Catholic Charities Legal Services, Inc. In 1994, Magpantay spoke at the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. The same year, he was named one of "25 Leading Men of 2004" by Instinct . [10]
In 2000, he organized the first-ever testimony before the White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. [10] In 2005, the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts bestowed him with their Community Service Award for his work on voting rights in Boston. [11] Starting in 2006, he spent two years at the Asian American Bar Association of New York in the role of Continuing Legal Education Instructor. He then spent 17 years as a civil right attorney and Democracy Program Director at the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund. Overlapping with his tenure, he began as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School in 2007. The same year, he was a featured speaker at CUNY's Conference on Caribbean Asians. [12] In 2009, he began teaching at Hunter College as an adjunct Professor of Law & Asian American Studies where he teaches "Asian American Civil Rights & the Law", "Introduction to Asian American Studies" (aka Asians in the United States), and "Asian American Queerness: An Overview of LGBTQ Asian American / South Asian Issues". [13]
Magpantay joined the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance as executive director in 2015. [14] He previously served as a co-director for the organization. Also in 2015, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Rights honored Magpantay with the Haywood Burns Memorial Award. [15]
In 2016, Magpantay was bestowed with the Gay City News Impact Award. [8]
In 2017, Magpantay began teaching "Asian American Civil Rights and the Law" and "Intro to Asian American Studies" at Columbia University, maintaining his posts at Brooklyn Law School and Hunter. The same year, he was bestowed with an Arcus Leadership Fellowship. [16] The same year, he was a presenter at the Out & Equal Workplace Summit. [17]
In 2019, Magpantay led LGBT-inclusion training of faculty and staff at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He also lobbied the United States House of Representatives for LGBTQ immigrants rights, meeting with 15 congressional offices to support the Reuniting Families Act. [18] [19] In August 2019, Magpantay appeared as a workshop leader and panelist at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance National Summit Training in Las Vegas, Nevada. [20]
In 2020, Magpantay was a guest speaker alongside the National LGBTQ Task Force's Policy Director, Meghan Maury, for Census Counts's webinar "Engaging AANHPI LGBTQ Communities." [21] He also led the workshop "The Census and LGBTQ Asians, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders: What’s at Stake, and How to Keep Safe" in Texas, Washington D.C., and New York. [22]
He is the principal of Magpantay & Associates, a nonprofit consulting and legal services firm. Crain’s NY Business hailed him as a Notable LGBTQ Executive in 2021. [23]
In 2021, Magpantay, was awarded a prestigious "George Soros Equality Fellow" from the Open Society Foundations where he is documenting the history of the LGBTQ Asian American community over the past 25 years. [24]
Magpantay has held a number of community service roles throughout the years. From 1992 to 1993, he was a board member for the NYC chapter of Citizen Action of New York, a grassroots organization dedicated to social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. [25] Then in 1993, Magpantay joined the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization working towards peace and social justice in the US and abroad. He would serve with them as a Peace Building Committee member for 8 years. [25] Within that time, from 1996 to 1998, Magpantay also acted as an executive committee member for the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a longstanding progressive public interest legal association. [25]
Following these roles, from 1991 to 2001 Magpantay served as a trustee for the Boehm Foundation, a philanthropic organization that provided grant funding to organizations for democratic development and civil rights. [25] After that, from 2001 to 2005 Magpantay acted as a co-chair for Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY), an enduring all-volunteer community organization dedicated to Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islanders. [26] Within that time, in 2002 he was also appointed by the New York City Council to the NYC Voter Assistance Commission to support efforts to ensure accessible, accurate, and secure elections. [27]
From 2005 onward, Magpantay served as a chair for the Pro Bono Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York until 2011, [28] then from 2013 to the present day as a chair for the LGBT committee. [29] Within that time, in 2015 he also became a Diversity and Inclusion Committee member for the National Asian Pacific Bar Association, which he continues in the present. [25] Most recently, in 2020 Magpantay began service as a NY Advisory committee member for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, established by the 1957 Civil Rights Act as an independent, bipartisan federal effort to develop civil rights policy and enforce of civil rights laws. [30] [31]
LGBTQ Immigrant's Rights
Asian American Representation
Minority Voter Suppression
Defending the Voting Rights Act
Date | Show | Role |
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May 29, 2016 | MSNBC [69] | Guest |
March 21, 2016 | Comcast Newsmakers [70] | Guest |
March 21, 2016 | ABS-CBN Balitang America [71] | Guest |
Huffington Post Biography [72] | Contributor | |
October 14, 2017 | Huffington Post Article [73] | Contributor |
August 30, 2017 | Huffington Post Article [74] | Contributor |
July 11, 2017 | Huffington Post Article [75] | Contributor |
May 12, 2017 | Huffington Post Article [76] | Contributor |
March 10, 2017 | Huffington Post Article [77] | Contributor |
February 14, 2017 | Huffington Post Article [78] | Contributor |
December 29, 2016 | Huffington Post Article [79] | Contributor |
May 24, 2021 | Whole Lawyer Project Podcast [80] | Guest |
August 15, 2021 | Rafu Shimpo Article [81] | Contributor |
April 6, 2022 | Fox News Interview [82] | Guest |
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1980.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in India have evolved significantly during the 21st century. Indian LGBT citizens still face social and legal difficulties not experienced by non-LGBT people.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Nepal have evolved significantly during the 21st century, though barriers to full equality still exist within the nation. In 2007, Nepal repealed the laws against gay sex and introduced several laws which explicitly protected "gender and sexual minorities". The Nepalese Constitution now recognizes LGBT rights as fundamental rights. On 28 June 2023, a single judge bench of Justice Til Prasad Shrestha issued a historic interim order directing the government to make necessary arrangements to "temporarily register" the marriages of "non-traditional couples and sexual minorities". The full bench of the Supreme Court has yet to deliver a final verdict. The first queer marriage of a trans woman and a cisgender gay man occurred in November 2023. Nepal will be the first least developed country and the first in South Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, and the second in Asia after Taiwan.
Laws governing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are complex in Asia, and acceptance of LGBT persons varies widely. Same-sex sexual activity is outlawed in at least twenty Asian countries. In Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen homosexual activity is punishable by death. In addition, LGBT people also face extrajudicial executions from non-state actors such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. While egalitarian relationships have become more frequent in recent years, they remain rare.
Homosexuality in the Palestinian territories is considered a taboo subject; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people experience persecution and violence. There is a significant legal divide between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with the former having more progressive laws and the latter having more conservative laws. Shortly after the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank in 1950, same-sex acts were decriminalized across the territory with the adoption of the Jordanian Penal Code of 1951. In the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and under Hamas' rule, however, no such initiative was implemented.
The Blue Diamond Society is an LGBT rights organization in Nepal. It was established in 2001 to advocate for change in the existing laws against homosexuality and to advocate for the rights of Nepal's marginalized gay, transgender, and other sexual minority communities. The Blue Diamond Society also aims to educate Nepalese society on proper sexual health, to advocate with local governments for queer minorities, to encourage the artful expression of LGBTQ+ youth, and to document violence against Nepalese queers. Another of its contributions to Nepal's LGBTQ+ communities is to provide care, counseling, and services to victims of HIV/AIDS. The BDS has also recorded various abuses against the community ranging from physical and verbal abuse and discrimination inflicted in workplaces and healthcare facilities.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Michigan enjoy the same rights as non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Michigan under the US Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, although the state legislature has not repealed its sodomy law. Same-sex marriage is legal. Discrimination on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity is unlawful since July 2022, was re-affirmed by the Michigan Supreme Court - under and by a 1976 statewide law, that explicitly bans discrimination "on the basis of sex". The Michigan Civil Rights Commission have also ensured that members of the LGBT community are not discriminated against and are protected in the eyes of the law since 2018 and also legally upheld by the Michigan Supreme Court in 2022. In March 2023, a bill passed the Michigan Legislature by a majority vote - to formally codify both "sexual orientation and gender identity" anti-discrimination protections embedded within Michigan legislation. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the bill on March 16, 2023.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Florida have federal protections, but many face legal difficulties on the state level that are not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity became legal in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas on June 26, 2003, although the state legislature has not repealed its sodomy law. Same-sex marriage has been legal in the state since January 6, 2015. Discrimination on account of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodations is outlawed following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County. In addition, several cities and counties, comprising about 55 percent of Florida's population, have enacted anti-discrimination ordinances. These include Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee and West Palm Beach, among others. Conversion therapy is also banned in a number of cities in the state, mainly in Palm Beach County and the Miami metropolitan area. In September 2023, Lake Worth Beach, Florida became an official "LGBT sanctuary city" to protect and defend LGBT rights.
In the United States, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have a long history, including vibrant subcultures and advocacy battles for social and religious acceptance and legal rights.
California is seen as one of the most liberal states in the U.S. in regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, which have received nationwide recognition since the 1970s. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal in the state since 1976. Discrimination protections regarding sexual orientation and gender identity or expression were adopted statewide in 2003. Transgender people are also permitted to change their legal gender on official documents without any medical interventions, and mental health providers are prohibited from engaging in conversion therapy on minors.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Commonwealth of Virginia enjoy the same rights as non-LGBT persons. LGBT rights in the state are a recent occurrence with most improvements in LGBT rights occurring in the 2000s and 2010s. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Virginia since October 6, 2014, when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal in the case of Bostic v. Rainey. Effective July 1, 2020, there is a state-wide law protecting LGBT persons from discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, and credit. The state's hate crime laws also now explicitly include both sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT history in the United States spans the contributions and struggles of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, as well as the LGBT social movements they have built.
This is a timeline of notable events in the history of non-heterosexual conforming people of South Asian ancestry, who may identify as LGBTIQGNC, men who have sex with men, or related culturally-specific identities such as Hijra, Aravani, Thirunangaigal, Khwajasara, Kothi, Thirunambigal, Jogappa, Jogatha, or Shiva Shakti. The recorded history traces back at least two millennia.
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in San Francisco is one of the largest and most prominent LGBT communities in the United States, and is one of the most important in the history of American LGBT rights and activism alongside New York City. The city itself has been described as "the original 'gay-friendly city'". LGBT culture is also active within companies that are based in Silicon Valley, which is located within the southern San Francisco Bay Area.
New York City has been described as the gay capital of the world and the central node of the LGBTQ+ sociopolitical ecosystem, and is home to one of the world's largest LGBTQ populations and the most prominent. Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, wrote the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful LGBT communities", and "Gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rise buildings, and Broadway theatre". LGBT travel guide Queer in the World states, "The fabulosity of Gay New York is unrivaled on Earth, and queer culture seeps into every corner of its five boroughs". LGBT advocate and entertainer Madonna stated metaphorically, "Anyways, not only is New York City the best place in the world because of the queer people here. Let me tell you something, if you can make it here, then you must be queer."
This is a timeline of notable events in the history of non-heterosexual conforming people of Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry, who may identify as LGBTIQGNC, men who have sex with men, or related culturally-specific identities. This timeline includes events both in Asia and the Pacific Islands and in the global Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora, as the histories are very deeply linked. Please note: this is a very incomplete timeline, notably lacking LGBTQ-specific items from the 1800s to 1970s, and should not be used as a research resource until additional material is added.
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is an American federation of Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian. and Pacific Islander LGBTQ organizations. NQAPIA was formed in 2007, as an outgrowth of the LGBT APA Roundtable working groups at the 2005 National Gay Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference in Oakland, California. NQAPIA seeks to build the capacity of local LGBT AAPI organizations, invigorate grassroots organizing, develop leadership, and challenge homophobia, racism, and anti-immigrant bias. The organization "focuses on grass-roots organizing and leadership development."
GAPIMNY is an all-volunteer-run organization that provides a range of social, educational, and cultural programming for queer and transgender people who are Asian and/or Pacific Islander in the New York City metropolitan area to support each other. The organization's community building efforts is intricately tied to political education and mutual aid.
LGBTQ+ conservatism in the United States is a social and political ideology within the LGBTQ+ community that largely aligns with the American conservative movement. LGBTQ+ conservatism is generally more moderate on social issues than social conservatism, instead emphasizing values associated with fiscal conservatism, libertarian conservatism, and neoconservatism.
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