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January 2022

Black History Month Is More Than Just 28 Days… This Is A Year-Long Celebration

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January 31, 2022

As we embark on Black History Month this year, it’s important to stress that honoring Black LGBTQ+ lives and their contributions to our collective freedom goes beyond the next 28 days–this should be a year-long celebration.

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Oregon Court of Appeals Rules, Again, Against Anti-LGBT Portland-Area Bakery

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January 26, 2022

“The court was right five years ago and is still right today. The Kleins’ faith does not give them a pass to ignore Oregon’s Public Accommodation Law.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Marriage Relationships and Family Protections, Religious Exemptions
Lambda Legal on the News of Justice Breyer’s Plans to Retire from the U.S. Supreme Court

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January 26, 2022

“We strongly urge President Biden to select a nominee whose commitment to equal justice under law is beyond question, and whose record demonstrates their understanding that LGBTQ+ people are entitled to the full protection of the Constitution’s guarantees of equality and liberty."

See Also: Law & Policy Project
Lambda Legal Applauds Federal Bureau of Prisons for Revising Manual for Incarcerated Transgender People

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January 25, 2022

Lambda Legal applauded the federal Bureau of Prisons for its revisions to the “Transgender Offender Manual,” improvin

See Also: Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal: Biden Delivered Results for LGBTQ+ and HIV Communities in First Year, But Critical Work Remains

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January 20, 2022

New analysis identifies ending “Licenses to Discriminate,” protecting trans kids, and ensuring access to health care as key priorities for administration to address in Year Two.

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LGBTQ and Women’s Rights Organizations Urge Eighth Circuit to Affirm District Court Ruling Blocking Arkansas’s Trans Health Care Ban

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January 19, 2022

“Arkansas’s trans health care ban is as dangerous as it is unlawful.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
Texas Enacts Transgender Youth Sports Ban

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January 18, 2022

"HB 25 targets and attempts to further marginalize an already vulnerable student population by denying transgender kids the many benefits and opportunities full and equal participation in interscholastic athletics provides."

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools
Victory! U.S. Supreme Court Rejects North Carolina State Health Plan’s Effort to Shield Itself from Health Care Discrimination Lawsuits

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January 18, 2022

“Today’s decision protects the rights of marginalized people, including LGBTQ people and people living with HIV, to seek justice and obtain relief in court if they are subjected to health care discrimination.”

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights
For MLK Day, Let's Remember That Voting Restrictions Are An LGBTQI+ Issue Too

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January 14, 2022

By Kristine Kippins, Deputy Legal Director for Policy "The denial of this sacred right is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic traditions and it is democracy turned upside down."—Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments
Lambda Legal to Work to Resolve EEOC Complaint on Behalf of Terminated Employee

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January 14, 2022

Lambda Legal has filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society, Inc. on behalf of a former employee who was fired after they and other Dallas Arboretum employees began including their pronouns in their email signatures and wearing pins using their pronouns.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace

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