Blog

Find Your State

Know the laws in your state that protect LGBT people and people living with HIV.

Legal Help Desk

Call us or submit your legal questions online.

RSS Feed

Ask Lambda Legal—What’s Next for the LGBT Rights Movement?

davidson_274.jpg

By

January 9, 2016

Q: I am a gay man who recently came out and am interested in volunteering in the movement. Lambda Legal has done a lot of work for LGBT people, including the fight for marriage equality. I know marriage was important, but not the whole battle, and wonder what’s next for the LGBT movement?

See Also: Ask Lambda Legal
Lambda Legal Mourns the Passing of Former New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye

judith_s.kaye_.jpg

By

January 7, 2016

Judith Kaye, the first woman to sit on and to serve as chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, passed away today. Kaye served as the chief judge for the state’s highest court from 1983 to 2008; during her tenure she was a strong and wise voice on LGBT issues.
Lambda Legal to Eleventh Circuit: Federal Law Prohibits Discrimination Against Lesbian Employee

jevans-cropped.jpg

By

January 7, 2016

Today, Lambda Legal urged the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling and allow Jameka Evans to present her case alleging that Georgia Regional Hospital of Savannah harassed and punished her, eventually forcing her resignation, because she is a lesbian.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace
Lambda Legal Files Brief Urging U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Access to Abortion

scotus.jpg

By

January 5, 2016

Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in support of the Texas abortion clinics, physicians who perform abortions and Texas women who need abortion services, who are challenging Texas’s unduly burdensome abortion regulations in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole.

See Also: Health Care Fairness, Law & Policy Project, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Religious Exemptions 2015: Love, Honor, Cherish in the Year of Nooooo!

pizer_392.jpg

By

December 30, 2015

It is essential that we launch 2016 remaining staunch against efforts to create religious carve-outs, to expand beyond all recognition what religious freedom really means, and to turn civil rights laws perversely into tools for discrimination.

See Also: Law and Policy Project, Religious Exemptions, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Religiously Motivated Discrimination
Making the Case for Transgender Rights

levasseur_274.jpg

By

December 28, 2015

This year more than ever, transgender people were the focus of media attention. Transition stories and true and fictional narratives about trans lives exploded into the American consciousness like never before. This is a hopeful development.

See Also: Transgender Rights
15 in 2015: Lambda Legal’s Year in Review

ll_logo_2_0_0.jpg

By

December 26, 2015

2015 was a historic year in the fight for equality for LGBT people and those living with HIV, and Lambda Legal led the fight in courts and communities across the country. Here are some of the highlights of Lambda Legal’s work this year:

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Fair Courts Project, Health Care Fairness, HIV, Housing, Immigration, LAWS AND AMENDMENTS, Marriage, RACIAL JUSTICE & LOW-INCOME ADVOCACY, Relationships and Family Protections, Seniors, Transgender Rights, Youth and Schools, Youth in Out-of-Home Care