Blog

Find Your State

Know the laws in your state that protect LGBT people and people living with HIV.

Legal Help Desk

Call us or submit your legal questions online.

RSS Feed

VICTORY: Second Federal Appeals Court Rules You Can't Be Fired for Being Queer

By Lambda Legal

February 26, 2018

Today, in a 10-3 decision, the full Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, New York

Lambda Legal Urges U.S. Senate to Heed “Chorus of Opposition” and Vote No On Kyle Duncan

meet_kyle_duncan.png

By Lambda Legal

April 19, 2018

Sharon McGowan, Director of Strategy at Lambda Legal, issued the following statement after Mitch McConnell filed cloture on Kyle Duncan, nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit:

See Also: Fair Courts Project, Judicial Nominees
Lambda Legal Mourns the Tragic Death of Former Marriage Project Director David Buckel

buckel.png

By Lambda Legal

April 14, 2018

The tragic death of former Lambda Legal Marriage Project Director David Buckel has been reported by several news outlets today.

See Also: David Buckel
Lambda Legal Challenge to Military Trans Ban on Course to Proceed to Trial

1200x630_clients.png

By Lambda Legal

April 13, 2018

Today, a federal court in Seattle issued a judgment scuttling the Trump Administration’s discriminatory plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services.

See Also: Out at Work, Washington
Idaho Makes History Today by Recognizing the Identities of Transgender People

30222124_185176438773800_9156590019866001408_o.jpg

By Lambda Legal

April 6, 2018

Lambda Legal scored an important victory last month when a federal court ruled that Idaho was constitutionally required to provide accurate birth certificates to transgender people that reflect their gender identity.

See Also: Birth Certificates, Idaho
Victory! Mississippi Supreme Court Rules That Lesbian Spouses Are Both Legal Parents to Their Marital Children

20160905_164946.jpg

By Lambda Legal

April 5, 2018

Today, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that married same-sex couples should have the same parenting rights as different sex couples in a Lambda Legal case on behalf of Chris Strickland, a non-biological lesbian mother who was denied legal parentage for children she and her now ex-wife planned for and raised together.

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Same-sex relationships, Mississippi
Victory! Court Tells Puerto Rico to Issue Accurate Birth Certificates for Transgender Puerto Ricans

daniela_3.jpg

By Lambda Legal

April 4, 2018

Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico struck down a policy that prevented transgender people born in Puerto Rico from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates and ordered Commonwealth officials to allow such corrections.

See Also: Puerto Rico
Lambda Legal Sues California HIV/AIDS Drug Program Administrator for Privacy Breach

data.jpg

By Lambda Legal

April 3, 2018

Lambda Legal today filed a class-action lawsuit in California Superior Court against A.J. Boggs & Company on behalf of 93 low-income Californians living with HIV whose confidential medical records – including their HIV status – were compromised by a data breach of A.J. Boggs’s California AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) online enrollment system.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, HIV