Press Release

Lambda Legal and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of California Hastings School of Law in a case brought by the Christian Legal Society (CLS) challenging the school's nondiscrimination policy.

"Jackson Memorial Hospital should have been able to provide immediate resources to Janice Langbehn when she wasn't allowed to be with her partner Lisa hour after hour as she lay dying in the hospital. We don't want the Langbehn-Pond nightmare to happen to another family."

(New York, January 28, 2010) - Today, Lambda Legal sent an open letter to Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli and his attorney challenging his claims that reports posted on blogs about his alleged relationship with another man were defamatory.

(New York, February 4, 2010) - Today, Lambda Legal released the first nationwide survey that examines health care discrimination experienced by LGBT people and people living with HIV.

(New York, February 17, 2010) - Today, Lambda Legal argued before the New York State Court of Appeals on behalf of a non-biological mother after an intermediate appeals court denied her right to seek custody and visitation with, and provide financial support to the child she has parented with her former same-sex partner.

(New Orleans, February 18, 2010) – The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Louisiana Registrar of Vital Statistics must respect a New York adoption by a same-sex couple of a Louisiana-born baby boy.

(New York, February 24, 2010) - Today Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler issued an opinion saying that recognition of out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples is consistent with Maryland law. Lambda Legal applauds the opinion that follows similar analysis in other states like New York.

Statement from Susan Sommer, Director of Constitutional Litigation at Lambda Legal:

"Civil unions are a failed legislative experiment in providing equality in New Jersey—marriage equality is the only solution."

The Boy Scouts are entitled to their beliefs, but they have no right to make the City of Philadelphia's taxpayers foot the bill for their harmful discrimination against gay people."