(Sacramento, Calif., September, 9 2010) - Today Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC), and HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA) sent a letter to David Maxwell-Jolly, Director of the California Department of Health Care Services, demanding a full explanation for the unauthorized and illegal disclosures of confidential identifying information of approximately 5,000 HIV-positive Medi-Cal recipients. The information was released over a two-and-a-half-year period, beginning in 2007, to a third party service provider. In addition, Lambda Legal, the ACLU-NC, and HALSA seek immediate assurances from the state agency that no additional unauthorized, illegal disclosures will occur.

From September 2010 eNews

September is not supposed to be the cruelest month. Unfortunately, for many young people who are the targets of antigay and anti-trans bullying and violence, school is not a safe place to be, and the start of a new school year is agonizing.

From September 2010 eNews

Q: Two weeks ago, I started 8th grade at a new middle school. My old school had a diversity day every year and I wore a T-shirt from that event my first week at the new school. A group of kids saw it and they haven't stopped hassling me since. They even threw my backpack into a trash can in the cafeteria. I told the principal but the only thing she said was to not wear the shirt. Is there anything else I can do?

A: There's a lot more you can do.

President Barack Obama has a problem with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community: He keeps making steady progress on some very important matters, and we keep complaining that he has let us down. Our glass is half empty and his, it seems, is half full.

9/1/2010

"Parties announced a settlement today in a lawsuit filed last year against a North Little Rock assisted-living center that allegedly evicted a 75-year-old man from the facility because he had the virus that causes AIDS.

"...Lambda Legal, a national group that advocates civil rights for gays and those with HIV, filed the federal lawsuit in 2009 on behalf of Franke, a retired biology professor and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

(Little Rock, Ark., September 1, 2010) - Lambda Legal announced today it has settled its lawsuit on behalf of an HIV-positive retired university provost and former minister against Fox Ridge, a North Little Rock assisted living facility.

8/31/2010

"Equality in hospital visitation policies is not a controversial issue. That’s what seems apparent from the 427 comments received during the just ended public comment period on the proposed regulation to implement President Obama’s hospital visitation memorandum.

8/30/2010

"The Hawaii lawsuit focuses not on gay marriage but on legalizing civil unions, which give same-sex partners the same rights and responsibilities as marriage. The Hawaiian Constitution bans same-sex marriage.

"Still, the Hawaii, lawsuit makes many of the same arguments outlined in the California suit that challenged Prop. 8.

Lambda Legal, the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association and the National Health Law Program today filed 26 pages of comments on proposed guidelines to eliminate discrimination in visitation against the families of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients published in June by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

8/22/2010

"I've been a little surprised at the burst of attention over the 'news' that Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and attorney general candidate Steve Cooley would defend Prop 8 in the federal trial, if elected and given the opportunity...

"Here's [Lambda Legal's Legal Director Jon] Davidson's analysis:

"'At the time of the oral argument that has been scheduled for the week of December 6th, even were Whitman or Cooley to have won the election, they will not have taken office—the new officeholders don't take office until Jan. 3, 2011.