Updated – Dallas LGBT Leader Gets Dallas Bar Board Seat

A handful of gay lawyers met in secret in 1993 to discuss their futures in the legal profession in Dallas. They didn’t dare create an official organization or make their plans public for fear of being fired because of their sexual identities and preferences, according to lawyers involved.

“They worried about losing their law license because this was a decade before Lawrence v. Texas,” said Locke Lord lawyer Mario Nguyen, who is president of the Dallas LGBT Bar Association. “Remember, it was still a crime in Texas. They had to keep it hush-hush.”