Abbe Land - Social Justice

Commitment to Social Justice

Abbe Land has served West Hollywood with the highest levels of distinction, particularly in the areas of social justice and equality. Widely known for her leadership on women's issues, LGBT rights and civil liberties, Land was instrumental in creating the City's Women's and Disability Advisory Boards. She has also played a leadership role in providing support to the Russian immigrant community by ensuring culturally competent City services and Russian-language materials and programming.

She led the effort to make West Hollywood the first city in the nation to declare itself a “Pro-Choice City,” and led a West Hollywood delegation to the 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington, DC. She currently serves on the board of Planned Parenthood-Los Angeles’ Advocacy Project.

She has been a staunch ally in the fight for LGBT civil rights, and particularly for marriage equality and service to youth. One of the highlights of her political career was being able to serve as the officiant at the weddings of more than 30 same-sex couples.

Over the years, she has helped lead the way for domestic partnership protections and rights (including a provision that guaranteed a registered domestic partner could not be evicted upon the death of a partner), including helping the City of West Hollywood become the first government agency in the United States to provide health care coverage for the domestic partners of its employees. She was deeply involved in the City’s efforts to provide early and cutting-edge funding for HIV/AIDS-related services and programs.

She helped create the City’s Lesbian Visibility Program, and has championed the creation of the Lesbian Health Bill of Rights, a project design to empower lesbians in their own health care and to educate health care professionals in the culturally competent care of lesbians. This project has grown to include the Los Angeles County Office of Women’s Health, as well as other local premier medical and educational institutions. In addition, she supported the first non-discrimination ordinance in the country to protect transgender people, and supported the creation of the City’s Transgender Advisory Board.




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