Landmark Cases
Since the 1970s, Lambda Legal has made history through winning legal victories that allowed LGBT people and people with HIV to live their lives with greater dignity, safety and equality under the law.
Below are some of the landmark Lambda Legal cases that have changed the face of LGBT and HIV law.
Historic case that overturned all remaining state sodomy laws in the United States
Groundbreaking case arguing that schools have a responsibility to protect students from antigay verbal and physical abuse
Historic case seeking to enforce a student's First Amendment right to be out at school
Historic case arguing for a sheriff's culpability for his acts in the murder of a transgender man
Pioneering case seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples in Hawaii
Landmark case that struck down a Colorado voter initiative that would have stripped lesbians and gay men of civil rights protection.
Landmark case seeking guardianship of a recently disabled woman for her same-sex partner
Pioneering case arguing the reinstatement of Army and National Guard veteran after she was discharged because of her sexual orientation
(Amicus) Groundbreaking case seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples in Vermont
Case arguing against the Foreign Service's policy of not hiring anyone who is HIV positive
Case seeking the right for same-sex couples to marry in California
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