Tomorrow night, just days before the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publishes new regulations on hospital visitation, Lambda Legal client Janice Langbehn will be a guest at the White House pride event.

Jon Davidson, Legal Director for Lambda Legal, has been named the recipient of the National LGBT Bar Association's 2010 Dan Bradley Award.

6/16/2010

"There were so many people trying to get in to watch the final day of the landmark trial challenging California's same-sex marriage ban, the court staff had to set up an additional overflow room for observers. Those dozen or so members of the public who managed to snare seats in Courtroom 6 on the 17th floor of San Francisco's federal courthouse building had to stand in line starting at 5:45 Wednesday morning to get them.

In response to the US State Department’s new policy guidelines for gender change in passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad for transgender people that were announced late yesterday, Lambda Legal released the following statement by Dru Levasseur, Transgender Rights Attorney.

More than 20 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality groups and allies today issued the following joint statement:

6/3/2010

"In a written opinion dismissing a charge of bio-terrorism against a 45-year-old HIV-positive man, Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Peter Maceroni ruled that the mere fact a person is HIV-positive is not enough to accuse him or her of unlawfully possessing a harmful biological substance.

From June, 2010 eNews Vol. 7 No. 6

Q: I was excited to read about President Obama’s memo telling the government to make sure hospitals allow gay and lesbian partners visitation rights. So if my partner is hospitalized, they’ll let me in, right?

From June, 2010 eNews Vol. 7 No. 6

Four months after President Obama called for an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) in his State of the Union address, we are closer to seeing promise become reality.

(Detroit, June 3, 2010) -- Today, Lambda Legal applauds the Macomb County Circuit Court's decision late yesterday to drop the bioterrorism charge against a man based on his alleged HIV status.

"We are glad the Court ruled with science. Being HIV-positive does not make a person a bioterrorist," said Bebe Anderson, Lambda Legal's HIV Project Director. "Discrimination and stigma remain problems for people living with HIV because of the misinformation about HIV. A court has to make decisions, as it did here, based on facts not fear."

06/02/2010

"The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors heard hours of contentious public testimony Tuesday before voting 3 to 2 to boycott Arizona over SB 1070, the state's controversial 'papers, please' illegal immigration law that requires law enforcement to ask anyone they 'suspect' of being an 'illegal alien' to produce documented proof of American citizenship.