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The 6 Supreme Court Cases LGBTQ People Need to Watch This Term

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October 2, 2017

Well, it’s here! Today is the first Monday in October, which means it’s the day the Supreme Court begins its new term.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Immigration, Marriage, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy, Same-sex relationships, SCOTUS
4 Recent Developments LGBTQ Immigrants Need to Know About

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September 22, 2017

This week is Welcoming Week across the US; a week of activities designed to bring immigrant and non-immigrant communities together to interact and get to know each other.

See Also: DACA, Immigration
Lambda Legal Tells Supreme Court to Stop Trump's Muslim Ban

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September 18, 2017

Lambda Legal has added its name to a brief filed in the Supreme Court opposing President Trump’s “Muslim Ban.”

See Also: Immigration, Religious Exemptions
Donald Trump Has Betrayed DREAMers

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September 5, 2017

We stand in solidarity with our immigrant communities, including the estimated 75,000 LGBT Dreamers and pledge to help defend them.

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Queers Against White Supremacy: Lambda Legal Responds to Charlottesville Riots

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August 13, 2017

In response to the racist violence that shook in Charlottesville, VA, Friday and Saturday, Lambda Legal CEO Rachel B. Tiven issued this statement.

See Also: Immigration, Racial Justice & Low Income Advocacy
LGBT People Refuse to be Pawns

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January 29, 2017

We utterly reject President Trump's discrimination against Muslims in the guise of concern trolling for LGBT rights.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Immigration, Resistance
Immigration and Seventh Circuit Judges Reject Bisexual Man’s Request for Protection; Here’s Why They Were Wrong

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August 19, 2016

The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week denied a petition from a Jamaican immigrant, 51-year-old Ray Fuller, for relief from an order sending him back to Jamaica where he feared being persecuted and tortured due to his bisexuality.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Rulings, Laws and Amendments, Bisexuality, Immigration
La Lucha Sigue: What It's like to Be an Undocumented Immigrant and Student

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August 4, 2016

In the summer of 2012, I was 17 years old and had just graduated from high school. My friends spent their last months of high school submitting college applications and receiving acceptance letters, and would soon be moving out of their family homes and into their freshman dorm rooms. It was all incredibly exciting.

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A Divided Supreme Court Leaves Immigrants in Limbo

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June 23, 2016

Today was a bittersweet one for the ideals of diversity and inclusion in this country.

See Also: Immigration, Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy
Why the Supreme Court needs to unfreeze Obama’s immigration policies

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April 19, 2016

Lambda Legal joined a diverse coalition of 326 immigration, civil rights, labor and social service groups led by the National Immigration Law Center in a brief urging the Supreme Court to lift the injunction that blocked the implementation of the executive actions that would positively impact the lives of millions of immigrants.

See Also: Immigration