As part of the Honoring Diversity Seminar Series, Brad Grimes, assistant director for Meredith Center for Career Services and Professional Development at WVU College of Law, will present "LGBTQ+ Rights: Past, Present and Future?" at 6 p.m. on Oct. 8 via Zoom. Register to attend.

Grimes will discuss the gradual development of laws providing rights and protections to LGBTQ+ people, provide an overview of where we are today and talk about threats to current legal protections, from adverse legislation being introduced in states nationwide. This includes discussion on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ intimation that the Supreme Court’s major cases involving LGBTQ+ marriage and other rights be “reviewed” per the decision-making involved in the Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade.