Wisconsin Jury Awards Nearly a Million in Damages to Transgender Employees
A Wisconsin jury awarded two state employees $780,000 in damages after they were denied health care coverage under the state…
Oregon Transgender Students Win Right to Use Preferred Bathroom
A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit that tried to dismantle protections for transgender students in Dallas, Oregon. The lawsuit sought to…
Watch the Gay Adoption Ad that Fox Thought was too Dangerous to Air
An ad titled “Kids Pay the Price” was released by the Child Welfare League of America and the National Association…
ACLU Will Stop Trump Transgender Military Ban
The American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP today asked a judge to immediately halt…
Laverne Cox Narrates the Fight for Transgender Rights
TIME magazine, in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has released an animated video depicting the history of…
Transgender Wrestler Fights Texas Legislature’s Proposed Anti-LGBT Bathroom Ban
The Texas State Senate is currently trying to force through legislation that wants to limit transgender men and women from…
‘I Pee with LGBT’ Oscar-Nominated Director Releases Anti-Texas Bathroom Bill
The ACLU of Texas and Legacy Community Health released a digital ad showing Texas’ “bathroom bill” (S.B. 6) isn’t about…
The Fight is On in North Carolina, Two Transgender UNC Employee and Student and Lesbian Professor Sue Government Over Anti-LGBT Law
A heavy-hitting lawsuit over the discriminatory new bill in North Carolina (that bans any form of anti-gay discrimination policies may…
Lead Plantiff in Supreme Court Gay Marriage Case Pens Open Letter to Kim Davis
Jim Obergefell, plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that established nationwide marriage equality today, authored an open letter to…
Contempt Hearing to be Held Today to Hold Kentucky Clerk Accountable for Violating Court Order
Kentucky federal district court will hold a contempt hearing Thursday to determine whether Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is in…
Department of Labor Prohibits Federal Contractors from LGBT Workplace Discrimination
This afternoon, the Department of Labor published a new rule to prohibit businesses that contract with the federal government from…
Transgender-Troop Acceptance Growing as Conference Takes Place and Leaders Show Support
Currently serving transgender service members from five of the 18 foreign militaries that allow transgender service today gathered alongside US…
With the Help of the ACLU, Chelsea Manning Files Lawsuit Demanding Medical Treatment for Gender Dysphoria
Chelsea Manning filed a lawsuit in federal court in the DC against Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and others in the…
Federal Appeals Court to Hear Six Cases Challenging Gay Marriage Bans in the Midwest
A federal appeals court will hear arguments today in six challenges to laws that ban marriage for same-sex couples or…
ACLU Files Lawsuit to Have Gay Marriages Recognized in Alabama
With lawsuits in all of the 31 states where gay and lesbian marriages are still illegal, even more lawsuits are…
ACLU Files Lawsuit in Michigan to Recognize 300 Legally Married Same-Sex Couples
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed a lawsuit today so that the legal marriages of 300 tqy and…
Judge Orders Lesbian Couple to be First to Marry in Illinois
While same-sex marriages aren’t expected to start in Illinois until next summer, a US District Court has ordered that Cook…
New Petition Launched Asking for Defense Department to Reaffirm Rights of Gay Military Couples
In response to resistance on the part of several state National Guards to the extension of benefits to the same-sex…
Lambda Legal Seeks Marriage Equality in Virginia
The fight for marriage equality continues, as Virginia seeks their place in this historic period, as the first Southern state…
Lambda Legal and ACLU to Push for Gay Marriage in Virginia
Virginia may very well prove that it’s indeed the state for lovers, if Lambda Legal and the ACLU get their…
ACLU Files Lawsuit in Pennsylvania to Recognize Gay Marriage
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, the American Civil Liberties Union, and volunteer counsel from the law firm of…
ACLU Drives Petition to Marry Cam and Mitch from ‘Modern Family’
Now that we are woefully without some of our favorite tv gays and lesbians this fall season, the ACLU is…
L.A. to St. Petersburg, Russia: Anti-Gay Laws Must Go
Russia is facing possible loss of ties with Los Angeles, California due to the passing of anti-gay laws in their…
ACLU Sues Utah School For Removing Book About Gay Parents
After the Davis School District removed a book from a library that “normalizes a lifestyle [some parents] don’t agree with,” one…
Lambda Legal and the ACLU Fight for Same-Sex Marriages in Illinois
Today, Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois each filed a lawsuit against the clerk of Cook County…
ACLU Challenges Michigan’s Anti-Gay Health Care Law
A new state law in Michigan bans public entities (including the state’s world-renowned universities) from providing health care insurance to…
Lesbian Mississippi Student Allowed to Wear Tuxedo
Image via ACLU. The last we heard of Ceara Sturgis (the lesbian who was refused entry into the senior portrait…
ACLU Files Suit Against Missouri Over Same-Sex Couple Benefits
Screen Cap via YouTube. The ACLU and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri will appear in court today to argue on…
Principal in Tennessee Physically Harasses Student Over Gay T-Shirt
Image via TPMM A 17-year-old senior at Sequoyah High School was reportedly shoved, bumped in the chest and verbally harassed…
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Case Involving Lesbian Student in Mississippi
Image via ACLU. A Mississippi federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit involving openly lesbian student Ceara Sturgis whose school…