Lambda Legal joined the nation's leading LGBT advocacy organizations in the following statement:
We remain steadfast in our commitment to passing compassionate, comprehensive immigration reform that will provide a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented men, women and children living in our country, including at least 267,000 LGBT undocumented immigrants.
Last Saturday marked 10 years since Sakia Gunn, a 15-year-old Black lesbian, was murdered in downtown Newark, N.J., for being who she was. Today, we honor the memory of Sakia Gunn and all those we’ve lost because of anti-LGBT hatred and violence.
Lambda Legal is voicing its support the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act, which would encourage states to reconsider laws and practices that unfairly target people with HIV for consensual sex and conduct that poses no real risk of HIV transmission.
Today, the Delaware Senate voted to grant the freedom to marry to same-sex couples in Delaware. Governor Jack Markell signed the bill into law, and Delaware has joined the rapidly growing list of jurisdictions in the United States where the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage has ended.
The Court built upon its 2009 ruling in Lambda Legal's landmark case Varnum v. Brien, which ordered that same-sex couples and their families be treated equally under state law, and won the right for same-sex couples to marry.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proclaimed May 6, 2013, Lambda Legal Day, in honor of the organization’s 40th anniversary, which will be celebrated at its annual gala that evening.