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7 Questions LGBTQ People Have for the 2020 Presidential Candidates

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By Ariel Goldberg

October 10, 2019

As the 2020 election approaches, all eyes are on D.C. (and sometimes on Twitter).

See Also: Adoption and Parenting, Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Housing, Intersex, Law & Policy Project, Marriage, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Military, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Religious Exemptions, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health, Same-sex relationships, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights
Our Constitutional Rights Are Under Attack

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By Puneet Cheema

September 17, 2019

And our rights are unequivocally critical to survival.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Housing, Immigration, Law & Policy Project, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Transgender Rights
Southern Poverty Law Center & Lambda Legal Sue DOJ and BOP for Records on Rollback of Protections for Incarcerated Trans People

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By Lambda Legal

November 20, 2018

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Transgender Rights, New York
Victory! NYC Government & Department of Correction Pays Victim of Antigay Attack $280K

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By Lambda Legal

September 12, 2018

Lambda Legal client Thomas Hamm, brutally attacked while he visited his incarcerated partner at a men’s facility on Rikers Island, was awarded $280,000 in the resolution of a federal lawsuit against the City of New York and New York City Department of Correction, its officers and supervisors.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Same-sex relationships, New York
6 Civil Rights Groups Urge Eighth Circuit to Accept Appeal of Man Who May Have Been Sentenced to Death Because He is Gay

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By Lambda Legal

August 2, 2018

Six civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota, Lambda Legal, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and National LGBT Bar Association, filed an amici brief today urging the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the appeal of Charles Rhines, a gay man on death row in South Dakota.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, South Dakota
Victory! Federal Court Strikes Unlawful Policy That Denied Health Care to Incarcerated Missouri Transgender Woman

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By Lambda Legal

May 23, 2018

A federal district court has struck down a Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy as cruel and unusual punishment because it denies vital health care to transgender people, including Lambda Legal client Jessica Hicklin, a transgender woman incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, Missouri
Black Lives Matter's Patrisse Khan-Cullors on Her New Book and the Power of Self-Care

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By Lambda Legal

February 22, 2018

The queer cofounder of the Black Lives Matter movement has a new book out, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. In Lambda Legal's Winter 2018 issue of Impact magazine, we talked to her about her work, her family, and fighting for justice in the Trump era.

See Also: Black Lives Matter, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, United States
Whether or Not You Stay in Jail Should Not Depend on How Poor You Are

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By Lambda Legal

October 11, 2017

Our justice system should be designed to treat all people equally. Yet that does not happen for the estimated 450,000 Americans who remain in pretrial detention because they cannot afford to pay costly bail.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Transgender Rights
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
White House Hosts Historic Meeting on LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

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By Lambda Legal

September 20, 2016

Today the White House hosted 150 formerly incarcerated LGBTQ people, policymakers & advocates to discuss unique challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people and people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the criminal legal system.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, HIV, Stop Prison Rape in Texas, Teens & Young Adults, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools

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