HIV

We could not let National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day pass this year without pointing out the pressing need for the LGBT community to re-engage on the issue of HIV/AIDS in this country.

Iowa lawmakers are eager to pass laws criminalizing just about any activity. Yet they refuse to acknowledge when one of those laws turns out to be a mistake.

The Iowa Court of Appeals heard arguments in Lambda Legal’s case representing Nick Rhoades, an HIV-positive Iowan who was initially sentenced to 25 years in prison with registration as a sex offender after having a one-time sexual encounter with another man during which they used a condom.

In his latest post on Towleroad, Ari Waldman discusses powerful remarks made by Lambda Legal's own HIV Project Director, Scott Schoettes at this year's annual conference of the LGBT Bar Association:

Lambda Legal submitted a letter to the California Senate Appropriations Committee in support of AB 999, a bill that will give the state’s prison population access to condoms.

Today, the Supreme Court of Minnesota upheld the decision of an intermediate appellate court overturning the conviction of Daniel James Rick, who is HIV positive, for the alleged criminal transmission of a communicable disease.

Today’s decision was an important victory both for free speech and for the global fight against HIV.