Cases & Advocacy
Wade v. Starbucks Corp. Amicus
On August 21, NCLR and Lambda Legal led a coalition of LGBTQ advocacy organizations and legal aid groups in submitting a proposed amicus brief urging California’s Fifth Appellate District to reverse a trial court ruling against Maddie Wade, a former employee of Starbucks in Fresno. The case is Wade v. Starbucks Corporation.
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National Center for Lesbian Rights Responds to Today’s Supreme Court Decisions on Religious Employers and Contraceptive Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
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Dee Farmer, the First Transgender Plaintiff in a Supreme Court Case, Mourns the Passing of Aimee Stephens
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GLAD and NCLR Respond to US Navy Granting Waiver to Transgender Officer Who Sued to Challenge Military Ban
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NCLR Mourns the Passing of Transgender Trailblazer Aimee Stephens
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GLAD and NCLR Statement on the One Year Anniversary of Trump’s Transgender Military Ban
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Naval Officer Files New Challenge to Trump’s Transgender Military Ban
Legislation & Policy
State Policy Working Group
- Relationships & Family > Marriage & Relationships
- Youth > Transgender Youth
- Youth > Education
- Discrimination > Employment
- Discrimination > Housing & Public Accommodations
- Discrimination > Sports
- Discrimination > Faith & Religion
NCLR, along with other national LGBTQ organizations, is part of a State Policy Working Group that addresses proposed state legislation affecting LGBTQ people across the country. The group works to support local advocates in advancing bills to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, healthcare, and other areas, and to allow transgender and nonbinary people to obtain gender marker changes on identity documents.
The group also works to stop the dozens of hostile anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures every year. Among the proposed laws that have been successfully defeated are bills that would permit discrimination against same-sex couples who marry, create broad religious exemptions to existing civil rights protections, allow religiously-affiliated child welfare agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex couples, prohibit transgender people from using restrooms and other facilities based on their gender identity, and deprive transgender youth of access to gender-affirming medical care and participation in school sports based on their gender identity.
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Department of Labor Paid Sick Leave Comments
- Relationships & Family > Reproductive Justice
- Racial & Economic Justice > Race & Poverty
- Discrimination > Employment
On April 25, 2016, NCLR submitted comments supporting the Department of Labor’s proposed rule requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave for workers to take time off when they or a family member is sick.
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FAMILY Act
- Relationships & Family > Parenting
- Relationships & Family > Reproductive Justice
- Racial & Economic Justice > Race & Poverty
- Discrimination > Employment
The FAMILY Act would establish a national paid leave insurance program. Specifically, it would provide eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of partial income to address their own serious health condition, including pregnancy or childbirth; to deal with the serious health condition of a parent, spouse, domestic partner or child; to care for a new child; and/or specific military care-giving and leave purposes.
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