As many of us head home over the holiday season, it’s important to focus on members of the LGBTQ community who experience homelessness and to highlight recent efforts to end this serious problem.
While there will be debate and disagreement about the facts that led to the grand jury decision announced today in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, MO, there is no debate about the facts that a terrible tragedy took place and that another unarmed young black man lost his life at the hands of a police officer.
In English
El presidente Obama anunció anoche cambios para mejorar nuestro sistema anticuado de inmigración. Aquí repaso lo bueno, lo malo y lo feo de lo que estos cambios, significan para ti y para el país.
En español
President Obama took some actions last night to improve our outdated immigration system. Here’s what these changes mean for you and for our country.
Let’s start with the ugly, and get it out of the way.
President Obama today announced he is issuing an executive order taking action on immigration, including temporarily protecting about 5 million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation.
Lambda Legal and the lawyers representing Forum for Equality Louisiana and seven same-sex Louisiana couples today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review September’s U.S. District Court ruling upholding Louisiana’s discriminatory marriage ban. The groups are seeking U.S. Supreme Court review in advance of the hearing in the case, Robicheaux v. Caldwell, before the U.S.