The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which protects the civil rights of homosexuals, will benefit.

The Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund is drafting legislation to force recognition of domestic partnerships statewide by state institutions.

One group, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, said the decision might be helpful to its challenge of the military's policy on homosexual service members.

From 1983 to 1987, he was a chairman of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York.