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6 LGBTQ Rights Fights to Watch in 2020

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January 15, 2020

We’re only two weeks into 2020 and there is no shortage of action.

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7 Questions LGBTQ People Have for the 2020 Presidential Candidates

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October 10, 2019

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

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Supreme Court Fails to Affirm LGBT Equality Rights

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June 4, 2018

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed the religious right a limited, fact-specific victory, ruling that the Colorado civil rights agency violated the religious rights of a Denver baker who refused to sell a same-sex couple a wedding cake.

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That Case About the Baker Who Refused to Make a Cake for a Gay Wedding? It's Not About the Cake.

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October 30, 2017

This is not about a cake. It’s about licensing cradle to grave discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

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Lambda Legal to High Court: Religious License to Discriminate Harms LGBT People from Cradle to Grave

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October 30, 2017

Lambda Legal, joined by Family Equality Council and 11 other organizations, today submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission detailing the multiple everyday experiences of hundreds of LGBT individuals, same-sex couples and their families who have faced discrimination.

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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Anti-LGBTQ Bakery Case

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June 26, 2017

The case involves a Denver bakery that cited religious beliefs and refused to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Law & Policy Project

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