The Iowa Court of Appeals heard arguments in Lambda Legal’s case representing Nick Rhoades, an HIV-positive Iowan who was initially sentenced to 25 years in prison with registration as a sex offender after having a one-time sexual encounter with another man during which they used a condom.
Equal access to public restrooms for transgender people is a national issue that needs greater public awareness, says M. Dru Levasseur, Lambda Legal's Transgender Rights Project Director.
Pride season is in full swing! This weekend, Lambda Legal will participate in Pride events in Brooklyn, Chicago, Des Moines, Indianapolis and Los Angeles.
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.
Jenny and Jessica Buntemeyer have received an accurate death certificate for Brayden, their stillborn son, listing both mothers after the Iowa Department of Public Health declined to appeal its defeat last month in Buntemeyer v. Iowa Department of Public Health.
An Iowa court today ordered the state health department to give a married lesbian couple an accurate death certificate for their son, who was stillborn in October 2011. The department had erased the name of one of the moms from the original certificate.
Iowa Supreme Court justices were urged to uphold a Polk County judge’s decision that required the state to list both parents on the birth certificates of children born as part of a same-sex marriage.
Lambda Legal client Nick Rhoades was sentenced to 25 years in prison for practicing safe sex. He along with Lambda Legal HIV Project Director Scott Schoettes spoke with Sanjay Gupta of CNN.