Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation

Legal Information

• AIDS/HIV+ Legal Resources for Gay and Lesbian Community

  List of Cases and other legal information related to HIV and AIDS Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• Anti-discrimination Law Map (relating to Gay and Lesbian Community)

  This page contains a map of the states which have laws that prohibit discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• Civil Rights and HIV / AIDS

  Ever since the emergence of AIDS in the early 1980s, our nation has been struggling to cope with this terrible disease. But the widespread fear stirred by the AIDS crisis has made the careful development of public policy difficult. There have been unwise calls for the curtailment of individual rights and liberties, and people with AIDS have often faced irrational discrimination -- job firings, exclusions from school, and denials of access to health care. Content Detail

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  American Civil Liberties Union

• Civil Rights and HIV / AIDS

  Ever since the emergence of AIDS in the early 1980s, our nation has been struggling to cope with this terrible disease. But the widespread fear stirred by the AIDS crisis has made the careful development of public policy difficult. There have been unwise calls for the curtailment of individual rights and liberties, and people with AIDS have often faced irrational discrimination -- job firings, exclusions from school, and denials of access to health care. Content Detail

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  American Civil Liberties Union

• Civil Rights in Schools: Resources for the LGBT Community

  This web site contains civil rights information and resources for the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transsexual community. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• Equal Employment Opportunity Information

  Equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws prohibit specific types of job discrimination in certain workplaces. This web site contains information about (1) federal laws relating to: Age Discrimination, Disability, Ethnic/National Origin, Color, Race, Religion, and Sex; (2) Federal Financial Assistance Programs, (3) Veterans, and (4) Immigration. Content Detail

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  U.S. Department of Labor

• Fighting Back: Stop Arrests, Police Abuse in the Lesbian and Gay Community

  Rest Stop Arrests and Police Abuse in the Lesbian and Gay Community Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• First Amendment: Legal Resources for the LGBT Community

  This web site contains legal resources for the lesbian and gay community relating to freedom of speech, press, religion, association and other First Amendment rights. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• History of Anti-Gay Initiatives

  This web site provides background and history on anti-gay initiatives and legislation. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• Housing and Public Accommodation (LGBT Community)

  This web site contains information about rights to housing and public accommodations for the LGBT community. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• Stopping the Anti-Gay Abuse of Students in Public Schools

  Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund provides this booklet to help the many students who are enduring the pain of anti-gay hatred and violence in public schools. It suggests steps for students, parents, family members, educators, and concerned citizens to join others who have begun to fight back against the hatred that causes young lesbians and gay men to attempt suicide at an alarming rate. Lambda has compiled this manual as an important extension to our victory in the first lawsuit to challenge anti-gay abuse in schools. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• Student Advocacy for University Anti-Bias Policies that Include Sexual Orientation

  This document contains information about college and university policies of non-discrimination, anti-harassment or misconduct policies that include sexual orientation. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• Take Action Against Employment Discrimination

  You can help make lesbian and gay workers safe from discrimination on the job. Statewide protections against workplace discrimination exist in only 14 states; in the rest of the country, employees fired simply for being gay have no legal recourse unless they work in a locality with its own anti-discrimination ordinance. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund

• The Rights of Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children

  This document reviews legal trends and law affecting the security of parent-child relationships between lesbian and gay parents and their children. It focuses on custody and visitation after divorce, adoption, other protections for parent-child relationships and intended families, and related constitutional issues. The document is available in PDF format only. Content Detail

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  LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund