The case is an appeal from federal rulings upholding Missouri’s adherence to its state constitutional provision, similar to provisions in over 30 other states’ constitutions, forbidding government aid to churches.
Joan Garner, the first openly gay Fulton County Commissioner and former Lambda Legal board member, passed away yesterday, after a long battle with breast cancer.
Lambda Legal today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State of Idaho’s refusal to allow transgender people to correct the gender on their birth certificates.
This year, on April 21, students will exercise their right to remain silent during the school day — a protest that demonstrates how anti-LGBTQ behavior in all forms silences students.
Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of North Carolina today condemned the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss its lawsuit challenging House Bill 2, the discriminatory North Carolina law that banned many transgender people from restrooms and other public facilities matching their gender and prohibited local municipalities from extending nondiscrimination protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
The death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman and Muslim to serve on New York’s highest court, has been reported by news outlets this evening.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval today signed Assembly Bill 99, a bill that requires child welfare and juvenile justice agencies in Nevada to treat transgender children in their care in accordance with their gender identity.