LAMBDA LEGAL ARCHIVE SITETHIS SITE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. TO SEE OUR MOST RECENT CASES AND NEWS, VISITNEW LAMBDALEGAL.ORG

Media Center

News Feed

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.

Learn More

Lambda Legal welcomes inquiries from journalists covering our court cases and LGBT and HIV rights issues. Find the media contact covering your region in the chart below.

If you are a member of the public seeking legal help, please contact our Help Desk for legal information.

Media Contacts

Tom Warnke – Media Relations Director

213-841-4503
twarnke@lambdalegal.org

Samy Nemir – Public Information Officer

202-672-4877
snemir@lambdalegal.org

Tyleis Davidson – Public Information Officer

678-492-1821
tdavidson@lambdalegal.org

Jonathan Adams - Communications Director

646-752-3251
jadams@lambdalegal.org

Press Releases

Read our latest news or search by issue area.

Lambda Legal: DOJ Request for Supreme Court Review on Transgender Military Ban is Premature

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review three preliminary federal district court rulings that have kept the Trump administration from implementing its discriminatory plan to prevent transgender people from serving in the U.S. Armed Services.

Lambda Legal Sues Social Security Administration on Behalf of Gay Widower Seeking Spousal Benefits

“The Social Security Administration is allowing the heartbreak of discriminatory marriage bans to persist by holding same-sex couples to a standard that many could not meet.”

Southern Poverty Law Center & Lambda Legal Sue DOJ and BOP for Records on Rollback of Protections for Transgender People in Prison

(NEW YORK, November 20, 2018) – Today, Lambda Legal and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to compel the federal agencies to produce all documents and communications connected to the Trump administration’s decision six months ago to alter its Transgender Offender Manual, including communications with outside advocacy groups.

Lambda Legal and 75 National and State Organizations Urge HHS Not to Grant South Carolina License to Discriminate

"To allow faith-based agencies to put their beliefs ahead of the well-being of children in the state’s care is not only unconstitutional, but more importantly, it is harmful to the very children agencies are paid by the government to care for."

Lambda Legal Condemns McConnell’s Decision to Advance Thomas Farr Nomination Despite History of Black Disenfranchisement

Today, Sharon McGowan, Legal Director and Chief Strategy Officer of Lambda Legal, issued the following statement after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked cloture on the nomination of Thomas Farr, Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

VICTORY! Michigan Department of Corrections to Amend Policy Directive for Incarcerated People Living with HIV to Comply with Federal Law

Agreement is part of settlement in lawsuit brought by Lambda Legal and Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service

Lambda Legal Welcomes Avery Belyeu as Head of the South Central Regional Office

“Avery has been in the trenches fighting for LGBTQ rights – from working as an intern at Equality North Carolina to serving as Education Director at The Trevor Project – and we are delighted she will be leading our Dallas office.”

(Dallas, TX, November 13, 2018) – Lambda Legal announced today that Avery Belyeu will be joining the organization as director of its South Central Regional Office in Dallas.

56 Major Companies Respond to Alarming Effort to Erase Transgender People From Legal Protections

  • Statement comes following New York Times report that federal agencies are discussing attempts to redefine “sex” in an effort to erase transgender non-discrimination protections
  • Major companies -- with more than 2.4 trillion in collective revenue -- stand in solidarity with transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people in a time of heightened violence against marginalized people
  • Statement organized by 14 community organizations working for LGBTQ+ equality

Lambda Legal Responds to Tree of Life Massacre, Week of White Supremacist Violence

“This effort to undermine our democracy through violence and repression must not be allowed to succeed.”

(New York, October 29, 2018) In response to the massacre on Saturday of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Lambda Legal issued the following statement:

Lambda Legal: Trump Administration Effort to Erase Transgender Americans Will Not Stand

“This is clearly another ideologically-driven attempt by the Trump administration to marginalize transgender people and force them into the shadows.”

Pages