Lambda Legal Defense
Lambda Legal is a United States civil rights organization that focuses on bisexuals, gay men, lesbians, the transgendered, and those with HIV and/or AIDS. Originally envisioned in 1971, New York judges denied the organization's non-profit organization application. The New York Supreme Court finally allowed the organization to exist in 1973. Its national headquarters remain in New York City, but today has regional offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, California.
Lambda Legal carries out its legal work principally through test cases selected for the likelihood of their success in establishing positive legal precedents that will affect lesbians, gay men, bisexuals. Lambda Legal's staff of attorneys works on a wide range of cases, with their docket averaging over 50 cases at any given time.
Lambda Legal also maintains a national network of volunteer Cooperating Attorneys, which widens the scope of our legal work and allows attorneys, legal workers, and law students to become involved in our program by working with our legal staff.
They pursue groundbreaking litigation.
Lambda Legal pursues litigation in all parts of the country, in every area of the law that affects communities they represent, such as discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, and the military; HIV/AIDS-related discrimination and public policy issues; parenting and relationship issues; equal marriage rights; equal employment and domestic partnership benefits; "sodomy" law challenges; immigration issues; anti-gay initiatives; and free speech and equal protection rights.
External link
- This article or section should be merged with Lambda Legal.
Categories: LGBT rights organizations | Articles to be merged