After the United States Supreme Court codified gay marriage into law in 2015 with its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Brooklyn Bar Association’s (BBA) new president Christina Golkin was “feeling galvanized.”

Golkin sought to join the bar’s LGBT committee, only to find that despite the borough’s reputation as a hub of queer culture, no such committee existed.

So Golkin, a gay woman, created the committee, thus beginning her involvement with the bar association that culminated in her taking the reins as its president this summer.

The lack of LGBT committee as late as 2015 is a marker of the bar association’s staid, and sometimes conservative reputation. Located in the dark-wood paneled board room of the BBA’s historic building, for example, is a plaque commemorating a 2016 vi

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