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Lambda Legal Transgender Rights Attorney Cole Thaler spends much of his waking hours litigating precedent-setting cases or working as an educator or activist. He's just been honored for this work by the Southern Voice, which named him one of Atlanta's top 20 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender leaders. From the Southern Voice:

Lambda Legal defends recognition of out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples as court dismisses challenge brought by anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund.

If you’re a lesbian, gay or bisexual parent involved in a custody or visitation dispute with your former spouse, or if you’re afraid to come out because you fear losing your children, you have rights. You shouldn’t have to choose between raising your children and being honest about who you are.

Warding off persistent attacks from antigay groups, Lambda Legal has helped protect a medically accurate health curriculum that includes the facts on sexual orientation for 8th and 10th graders in Montgomery County, Maryland.

In response to a ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court for Pinellas County that rejected an attempt to terminate previously agreed to and ordered alimony for an ex-spouse because he is transgender, Lambda Legal issued this statement from Greg Nevins, Senior Staff Attorney in Lambda Legal's Southern Regional Office in Atlanta and Cole Thaler, Transgender Rights Attorney for Lambda Legal:

LGBT people face real discrimination in the workplace, yet there is still no federal law that expressly forbids this kind of discrimination. The federal Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA)* seeks to put an end to this. Executive Director Kevin M. Cathcart submitted an open letter to congress urging for the passage of this bill.

A mid-level court in New York has wiped out a lower court ruling denying spousal benefits to a retired school teacher, even though he and his partner were legally married in Canada.

Celebrate National Freedom to Marry Day in your own neighborhood this year with same-sex couples arm-in-arm on your street, in bridal gowns or tuxedos, trailed by a festive entourage. Engage your neighbors. Turn the heads of your friends. Express your need for marriage equality today.

The Illinois Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to file a name change petition and fee-waiver request for Daunn Turner — a disabled, transgender woman. A circuit court judge had originally denied the name change and fee waiver, saying Turner’s name change was “not that important.”