Hawai`i LGBT Legal Association is Hawai`i's first voluntary professional organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) judges, lawyers, legal workers, law students and allies supportive of the organization’s purposes.
Our mission is to establish and maintain a group to support, assist, and encourage LGBT legal professionals and provide support and resources to the people of Hawai`i on LGBT issues.
The goals of the organization are to:
- Promote the practice, expertise and advancement of LGBT legal professionals;
- Provide opportunities for LGBT and allied legal professionals to interact and network in a professional setting;
- Foster participation in pro bono activities supporting the LGBT community;
- Work with LGBT organizations and community groups, as well as other minority bar associations and community groups, to achieve human and civil rights for all people;
- Educate the public on legal issues facing LGBT people;
- Eliminate homophobia and transphobia in the justice system;
- Encourage judicial and governmental appointment of those who oppose discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or expression;
- Encourage lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and people of transgender and other gender-based identities and expressions to choose law as a career;
- Promote solidarity among LGBT people in the law;
- Assure fair and just treatment of the members of Hawai`i’s LGBT community.
