As the HIV epidemic enters its fourth decade, we know how much work is yet to be done in the fight against the epidemic and against discrimination. Lambda Legal’s HIV Project released a new report in advance of World AIDS Day this week, documenting the stigma and discrimination that people living with HIV continue to face.

The Department of Health and Human Services, at President Obama's urging, has just released its new regulations on the rights of LGBT patients to name who can visit them in the hospital. What's changed?

(Atlanta, GA December 1, 2010) - Yesterday, in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and Georgia Safe Schools Coalition (GSCC) in opposition to a graduate student's legal claim against Augusta State University.

"Camilla Taylor, a lawyer with Lambda Legal in Chicago, a group that helped draft the legislation, said businesses in Illinois that provide spousal benefits will have to treat same-sex couples who have entered into a civil union the same as heterosexual couples.

"'The civil unions bill makes especially clear that businesses aren't acting in good faith if they continue to treat same-sex couples differently with regard to spousal benefits,' Taylor said.

The Illinois House of Representatives passed the civil union bill today, taking an important step toward providing needed legal protections for same-sex couples. Lambda Legal is celebrating this vote and urging the Illinois Senate to follow.

(Los Angeles, November 30, 2010) - On Monday, Dec. 6, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal lawsuit challenging the validity of California's Proposition 8.

(Los Angeles, November 23, 2010) The U.S. Department of Justice
announced today that it will seek an appeal even though it will not seek
to stay the reinstatement of Major Margaret Witt, a 19-year Air Force
veteran. Her counsel, the ACLU of Washington announced that she will
be returning to service. In response, Legal Director Jon Davidson of
Lambda Legal issued the following statement.

(Dallas, November 22, 2010) - Lambda Legal has announced that former national board member Roger Poindexter has been hired as director of the organization's eight-state South Central Regional Office. Poindexter took over from interim Regional Director Charles MarLett on November 1.

Today, in recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance, Lambda Legal issued the following statement by Executive Director Kevin Cathcart

In advance of World AIDS Day (December 1), Lambda Legal releases an evidence-based report on the continuing stigma and discrimination faced by people living with HIV to policy makers and advocates.