by Greg Nevins
Supervising Senior Staff Attorney

Lambda Legal can't fight every battle or react to every misinterpretation of the law uttered by someone hostile to LGBT rights.

So the question of what to do came up when, on March 4, newly-elected Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II wrote to officials heading Virginia's public universities, urging them to rescind their policies against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

FROM OF COUNSEL VOL. 6, NO. 1
(FEBRUARY 2010)

"How many transgender people are there?" I'm often asked this question by people inside and outside of the LGBT community, and by reporters, scholars, students and attorneys. They want to know how many people we are talking about when we refer to the letter "T" in the LGBT. Sometimes, the underlying sentiment is, "Why are we focusing on such a small population of people who seem to have such different issues than us?"

FROM OF COUNSEL VOL 6, NO. 2
(APRIL 2010)

Karen Golinski is a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals employee who has been denied health benefits for her same-sex spouse—even though the coverage would not cost the federal government one additional cent in premiums.

by Flor Bermudez
Youth in Out-of-Home Care Attorney

Election Day brought another mixed bag of results for the LGBT community. On one hand, a slim majority in Maine voted to repeal the marriage equality legislation that had the support of both the legislature and the governor. On the other hand, Washington residents voted to retain a statewide domestic partnership law that also had legislative and gubernatorial support.

When a doctor says that a treatment is medically necessary, should legislators and voters be permitted to forbid that treatment to prisoners? That's the question Lambda Legal Staff Attorney Cole Thaler tackles on MSNBC's "The Situation with Tucker Carlson."

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

From the Chicago Sun-Times: "The path to civil unions in Illinois faces some rough spots. It's not something conservatives want to budge on. But with an Illinois House committee's approval last week of legislation that would allow such unions in this state, same-sex couples are a step closer to joining those in four other states who enjoy the same legal benefits as married couples...

(Washington, DC, October 11, 2011) – The U.S. Supreme Court today denied Lambda Legal’s petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of a same-sex couple seeking an accurate birth certificate for their Louisiana-born son whom they adopted in New York. The Louisiana state registrar has refused to recognize the adoption and issue a birth certificate listing both fathers as the boy’s parents.

Paula Ettelbrick, former Legal Director at Lambda Legal and lifelong activist for LGBT equality and social justice, died today, after a long battle with cancer. Ettelbrick was the first staff attorney at Lambda Legal in 1986 and served as its Legal Director from 1988 to 1993.