Join the Texas LGBTQ Chambers of Commerce and the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) for a virtual session to learn more about this new law. EVERYONE is welcome to attend. You do not have to be a member of the Chamber.

What the session will cover...

• The history of the law
• Review the version of the law that finally passed, including what performances are prohibited
• Penalties for performers and businesses that host including three separate enforcement mechanisms in the law
• Learn more about what is being done to challenge this dangerous law including the recently filed lawsuit against the State of Texas with the Chamber and others as plaintiff's
• What to do if you get charged including ways to protect yourself

There will be a Q&A portion of the program as well to provide attendees the opportunity to get questions answered.

Join us to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS and educate yourself on this new law. The Chamber is here to support the community to share facts and resources as part of our partnership with TCRP.

Speakers

Ashley Fernandez Dorsaneo (she/her)		Molly Petchenik (she/her)
Senior Staff Attorney		Legal Fellow, Criminal Injustice Program
Ashley is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Criminal Injustice Program, based in TCRP’s Austin Office. Prior to joining TCRP, Ashley was a senior litigation associate at Reid Collins & Tsai LLP in Austin as well as a litigation associate at the New York offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. While in private practice, Ashley had a robust pro bono practice ranging from asylum to Fourth Amendment violations. Ashley also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Eric N. Vitaliano of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  Ashley received her Juris Doctor cum laude from New York University School of law in 2015. She served as a senior notes editor for the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, where she published a note on human rights and self-determination.		Molly joined TCRP in 2022 as a Yale Law Journal Jane Matilda Bolin Fellow in the Criminal Injustice Program. Molly works on issues from exploitative bail practices to unconstitutional conditions of confinement in jails and prisons. She received her B.A. in history from Swarthmore College and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she worked on civil rights issues affecting veterans and people in prison. Before attending law school, Molly was a litigation assistant at the Prison Law Office in California and worked for the Honorable David S. Tatel of the D.C. Circuit. Molly served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Pitman of the Western District of Texas.

 

Our Mission

We are Texas lawyers and advocates for Texas communities, boldly serving the movement for equality and justice in and out of the courts. We envision a Texas where all communities thrive with dignity and justice and without fear.

 

TCRP believes that legal advocacy and litigation are critical tools to protect and advance the civil rights of everyone in Texas, particularly our State’s most vulnerable populations, and to effect positive and lasting change to law and policy. We believe that by serving the rising social justice movement in Texas with excellent legal representation and bold strategies, we can respond to the needs of the communities we serve.