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Statewide Relationship Recognition
no Licenses marriages for same-sex couples.
no Honors marriages of same-sex couples from other jurisdictions
no Relationship recognition for same-sex couples: none.

1998 Alabama prohibits marriage between same-sex couples by statute, and prohibits recognition of lawfully married same-sex couples from other states or jurisdictions. See Alabama Statues, § 30-1-19.

Statewide Employment Protections
no Private employment protections based on sexual orientation.
no Private employment protections based on gender identity.
no Public (state) employment protections based on sexual orientation.
- Public (state) employment protections based on gender identity.

 

Statewide Parenting Laws
Who May Adopt Any unmarried adult or husband and wife jointly. Ala. Code § 26-10A-5.
Second Parent Adoptions Approved in some lower courts.
Notes Case law reveals hostility to gay parents. See Ex parte J.M.F., 730 So.2d 1190 (Ala. 1998).

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Related Content for region

11/22/2011
Lambda Legal Joins Civil Rights Groups to File Amicus Brief Opposing Alabama Anti-Immigrant Law, HB 56
Lambda Legal and 30 public interest organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama v. Bentley, the constitutional challenge to Alabama's anti-immigrant law, HB 56, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
9/2/2009
Settlement Reached in Lambda Legal's Federal Case Against the Mayor and City of Birmingham
2/20/2009
Lambda Legal Joins First Amendment Case Against Birmingham Mayor
12/9/2004
Lambda Legal Sees Rise in Hostility Toward Gay Youth Since Election, Expands Its Education Campaign to 'Hot Spots' in Missouri, Utah, Alabama, Iowa, Texas
3/24/2009
N.B. v. A.K.
Case seeking regular visitation rights for a lesbian mother and the child she and her former partner co-parented in California.
2/20/2009
Central Alabama Pride, Inc. v. Larry Langford
Case on behalf of Central Alabama Pride, a gay group that was denied its free speech rights when the Birmingham mayor refused to provide city resources to support for gay pride based on his religious beliefs.
Davis v. Hopper
(Amicus) case challenging the state of Alabama's segregation policy for those living with HIV in the prison system

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