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Same-Sex Georgia Couple Sues U.S. State Department for Refusing to Recognize Their One-Year-Old Daughter’s Citizenship

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By Lambda Legal

July 23, 2019

The State Department’s policy treats married same-sex couples as if their marriages did not exist.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Immigration, Marriage Family and Relationship Protections, Same-sex relationships, Georgia
Lambda Legal & TLDEF Team Up to Help Transgender People Get Legal Name Changes in Atlanta

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By Lambda Legal

October 30, 2017

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) is joining forces with Lambda Legal to collaborate on one of TLDEF’s signature programs, the Name Change Project. The Project provides free legal name change services to low-income transgender people through partnerships with some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms and corporate law departments. TLDEF will continue to run its program in New York City, while Lambda Legal will work with TLDEF to continue developing the initiative in Atlanta and throughout Georgia.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Georgia
76 Businesses, Legal Scholars & Leading LGBTQ Rights Organizations Join Lambda Legal's Push to End Discrimination Against LGBTQ Employees

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By Lambda Legal

October 11, 2017

Today 76 businesses, legal scholars and the nation’s leading LGBT rights organizations joined Lambda Legal in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to finally decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits sexual orientation discrimination on the job.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Georgia
Scout Schultz’s Killing Was a Symptom of Systemic Transphobia

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By Taylor Brown

September 25, 2017

It is on all of us to remember Scout and fight on in their name.

See Also: Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Transgender Rights, Georgia
Jameka Evans Was Forced out of Her Job for Being a Lesbian; Lambda Legal Is Taking Her Case to the Supreme Court

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By Lambda Legal

September 7, 2017

Lambda Legal asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of Jameka Evans, a Savannah security guard who was harassed at work and forced from her job because she is a lesbian. The petition seeks a nationwide ruling that sexual orientation discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Georgia
Onward To The Supreme Court For Lambda Legal And Client Fired For Being A Lesbian

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By Lambda Legal

July 6, 2017

Today, Lambda Legal announced it will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied its en banc petition asking that the full Court rehear the case of Jameka Evans, a security guard who was harassed at work and effectively terminated from her job because she is a lesbian and doesn’t conform to gender norms in her appearance and demeanor.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Georgia
Lambda Legal Mourns the Loss of Georgia Transgender Client Rowan Feldhaus

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By Billy Scaltsas

May 16, 2017

Our hearts are heavy at the tragic loss of a courageous young man who fought for the right to determine his own name and destiny.

See Also: Transgender Rights, Georgia
Lambda Legal Mourns the Passing of Former Board Member Joan Garner

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By

April 19, 2017

Joan Garner, the first openly gay Fulton County Commissioner and former Lambda Legal board member, passed away yesterday, after a long battle with breast cancer.

See Also: Georgia
Jameka Evans Was Forced out of Her Job for Being a Lesbian. We're Asking the Full Eleventh Circuit to Rehear Her Case.

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By Lambda Legal

March 31, 2017

Today, Lambda Legal filed a petition seeking a rehearing by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of Jameka Evans, a security guard who was harassed at work and effectively terminated from her job because she is a lesbian and doesn’t conform to gender norms in her appearance and demeanor.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Georgia
Eleventh Circuit Rules Against Employee Harassed and Forced Out For Being a Lesbian

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By Lambda Legal

March 10, 2017

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit largely affirmed a lower district court’s ruling dismissing the lawsuit of Jameka Evans, a security guard who was targeted for harassment and effectively terminated from her job at Georgia Regional Hospital because she is a lesbian and didn’t conform to gender norms in her appearance and demeanor.

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