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."

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin yesterday struck down a law that barred transgender people from receiving medical care while they are incarcerated. The ACLU and Lambda Legal brought a challenge in January 2006 to the law on behalf of transgender prisoners, some of whom had been receiving hormones in Wisconsin prisons for years prior to the passage of the law.

Justice Stevens Wrote the Dissenting Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick Which Became the Basis for the Majority Opinion in Lawrence v. Texas

4/6/2010

"A floppy mop of blond hair flew behind Jamison Olson as he popped out the bottom of a tunnel slide. He cast a few backward glances at his mother Ingrid Evans Olson, who followed close behind, before letting loose with laughter and jumping into the waiting arms of Reva Evans Olson, his other mother.

From April 2010 eNews (Vol. 7, No. 4)

The health care reform acts that President Obama signed into law will bring good news, especially for 32 million Americans who will now have access to health insurance.

Many who are LGBT or living with HIV will have greater access to coverage. Discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, like HIV, will be prohibited. In addition, the out-of-pocket burden for prescription medication will be eased for people living with HIV who also rely on Medicare.

"One year of equality in Iowa has made same-sex couples and their children happier and more secure; made gay people everywhere prouder and safer; and reinforced the State of Iowa's leadership in protecting the rights of its citizens. That's a big win for everybody."

3/31/2010

"Gay marriage advocates have reached their goal, but one year after an Iowa Supreme Court decision legalized gay marriage in Iowa, they must continue to tell their stories.

"...Lambda Legal, a New York-based gay rights organization, filed the Varnum v. Brien lawsuit on behalf of six same-sex couples, including the BarbouRoskes, in 2005 after Polk County Recorder Timothy Brien denied them marriage licenses. A district court found denying marriage licenses unconstitutional, but it was immediately appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court.

3/24/2010

"In the wake of the pointed refusal by New Jersey's legislature to take action, Lambda Legal has returned to the New Jersey Supreme Court to win the freedom to marry. Lambda's attorneys filed a motion directly with the high court, asking it to bring New Jersey across the finish line to the equality that the constitution commands. The suit asks the Court to cure unconstitutional discrimination against lesbian and gay couples by finally ending their exclusion from marriage.

3/19/2010

"Gay couples who unsuccessfully sued New Jersey four years ago for the right to marry returned to court Thursday, claiming the state has not fulfilled a court order to treat them the same as married heterosexual couples.

"In a motion filed in the New Jersey Supreme Court, the couples argue that even though New Jersey offers civil unions to gay couples as the state's response to the 2006 order, the government, hospitals, schools, employers and other institutions do not always recognize their full rights.

3/18/2010

"Lambda Legal announces the details of legal action seeking marriage equality for same-sex couples in New Jersey. Calling the state's civil unions law a failed experiment, six same-sex couples yesterday asked the state Supreme Court to grant them the right to marry.

"'What we have lived for the last three years is that civil unions are not equal to marriage,' Cindy Meneghin of Butler said in an interview before Lambda Legal announced it is reviving its case before the Supreme Court."