Picking their court battles: it's taken on the Boy Scouts, eliminated sodomy laws, and won victories for students. Now Lambda Legal has its sights on marriage. Its recipe for success: select ingredients carefully and cook them slowly: with the fight for gay and lesbian equality at a crucial crossroads, The Advocate continues its ongoing series of articles focusing on our leading activist and service organizations.(Lambda Legal)(Organization overview)

From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine) | Date: July 4, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Kevin Cathcart wants every gay and lesbian person to learn the value of patience. We can't get discouraged, he says, just because marriage equality and parental rights for LGBT people are under all-out assault by social conservatives in America. "We are fighting a backlash that is incredibly strong, but it was incredibly strong all along," he says. "A backlash is to some extent a sign of success--that the other side is worried."

Cathcart, who on May 1 of this year marked 14 years as head of the gay rights group Lambda Legal, believes his organization's greatest accomplishment ...

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