Lambda Legal joined more than 50 organizations in a letter today asking the President to issue an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against lesbian and gay employees.
President Obama signed into law yesterday a defense budget bill including a clause that may allow service members to invoke “religious conscience” as a defense for illegal discrimination. The President promised to protect the rights of lesbian and gay service members.
Lambda Legal is challenging Alaska's exclusion of same-sex couples from survivor benefits, on behalf of Deborah Harris, whose partner was shot dead by a disgruntled former employee.
Lambda Legal represents seven lesbian and gay state employees who are challenging a move by the Arizona Legislature to eliminate the equal health care benefits that those employees rely on to safeguard their families' health—just as their heterosexual colleagues do.