Lambda Legal Launches 'Clock In For Equality: The National Day of Action for Workplace Fairness for LGBT Employees and Employees with HIV'

(Dallas, February 2, 2007) — This morning in Dallas, Lambda Legal unveiled its plans for ‘Clock In For Equality’ — a national day of action for workplace fairness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers, and workers living with HIV.

“Of the over 5,000 calls our national help desk hotline received last year, the rights of LGBT employees was far and away the most common concern raised by our callers,” said Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director of Lambda Legal.“ ’Clock In For Equality’ is Lambda Legal’s response to a very real need our community has identified: creating and maintaining discrimination-free workplaces for all employees.”

Even though the latest Gallup Poll from May 2006 shows that 89% of Americans believe that discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation is wrong, there is still no federal law that forbids it and a majority of the states still lack laws to protect against such discrimination.

On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 workers from coast-to-coast will participate in activities that aim to advance basic nondiscrimination measures to rid the workplace of discrimination so all employees can be free to do their jobs. Lambda Legal is working with local groups nationwide to plan simultaneous activities including advocating for nondiscrimination policies to protect LGBT workers and workers living with HIV, supporting a bill or local ordinance that will protect all LGBT workers and workers with HIV from workplace discrimination, and holding educational forums on harassment-free workplaces. Lambda Legal is partnering with local groups as diverse as farm workers to Ernst & Young’s and Levi Strauss & Company’s LGBT employee associations in cities across the country to produce events and forums aimed at making the work environment places where all employees have the opportunity to do their jobs free of harassment.

For more information about “Clock In for Equality” please visit www.lambdalegal.org/clockin.

The following is a list of Lambda Legal’s ‘Clock In For Equality’ partner organizations as of January 31, 2007:

National Organizations and Employers (21):

American Airlines, Inc.
Equality Federation
Equality Project
Ernst & Young
GLAD: Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
HRC: Human Rights Campaign
Integrity
Lambda Legal
Latino Commission on AIDS, Inc.
National Association of LGBT Community Centers
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Pride at Work
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Eastern Region Lavender Caucus
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
Transgender Law Center
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
LGBT Employee Resource Groups (9)
Allianz Life Insurance Company Diversity Group
EQUAL: Lucent Technologies LGBT Employee Resource Group
Ernst & Young: Dallas bEYond
Galaxe Pride at Work
Gays, Lesbians and Allies at Dow Chemical
GLEAM (American Airlines)
Hewitt Associates Pride Alliance
The League at AT & T
Levi Strauss & Company Lesbian & Gay Employee Association

Regional, Statewide and Local Organizations (58, representing 32 states)

9 to 5, National Association of Working Women, Bay Area
Arizona Human Rights Fund and Foundation
br>Basic Rights Oregon
Bay State Stonewall Democrats
Bronx Lesbian and Gay Center
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council
The Center
The Center Project
Citizens for Equal Protection
Collin County Gay and Lesbian Alliance
The Community Center
Dallas Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Empire State Pride Agenda
Equal Rights Washington
Equality Advocates Pennsylvania (formerly the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights)
Equality Alabama
Equality Maine
Equality Maryland
Equality North Carolina
Equality Ohio
Equality Utah
Gay and Lesbian Labor Activist Network/ Pride at Work/ AFL-CIO/ Massachusetts
Gay LULAC, Council #4871
La Gente de Aztlan
Georgia Equality
GLBT Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland
GLBT Community Center of Colorado
GLSO Gay & Lesbian Services Organization
Groundwork Books Collective
Hudson Pride Connections
Indiana Justice Fund
Joplin Gay and Lesbian Center
La Joteria de UCLA
Just Equal
LeGal: LGBT Law Association of Greater New York
LGBT Community Center of Central Iowa
LGBT Community Center of New York
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center
Love Makes a Family
Michigan Equality
Mid-South Pride, Incorporated
New Mexico Religious Alliance for Inclusion and Non-Discrimination
New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy
North Texas GLBT Chamber
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates: Chicagoland
Out & Equal: Dallas/ Fort Worth
Outfront Minnesota
PFLAG Houston
Pikes Peak Gay and Lesbian Community Center
PROMO
RU12?Queer Community Center
San Diego LGBT Community Center
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 509, Lavender Caucus
Triangle Foundation
Utah Pride Center
The Wall-Las Memorias Project
Worker’s Rights Law Center of New York, Inc.