
Lambda Legal Director of Constitutional Litigation Susan Sommer on our recent New York victory: "The ADF has brought four different cases in NY against four different sets of governmental defendants. Twenty judges have ruled in those cases. All 20 have ruled against the ADF and in favor of the government and married same-sex couples…the ball is now in the State Senate's court."

Lambda Legal successfully persuaded New York's highest court to affirm previous decisions upholding public employee spousal benefits for same-sex couples married out of state...

Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Tucson to block a move to strip gay and lesbian state employees of domestic partner benefits. "This is an issue of equal pay for equal work," said Tara Borelli, staff attorney for Lambda Legal. Read more

Lambda Legal, the leading national legal organization dedicated to achieving full civil rights for LGBT people and people with HIV, has had an exceptional year...

Hopes for a historic electoral victory in favor of marriage rights were disappointed when Maine voters approved Question 1 by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent...

From Crain's 40 Under 40: In April, the Iowa Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling on Varnum v. Brien: Banning gay couples from marrying violates the state's constitution. The ruling made Iowa the third state to legalize same-sex marriage. Since then, three more states have done so...

Lambda Legal Curious about the new Hate Crimes Bill?
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After President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law this afternoon,30 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV advocacy organizations issued ...




















