New York, NY (December 14, 2023) - Today, a coalition of the nation's leading LGBTQ organizations, including Immigration Equality, Human Rights Campaign, The National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund, GLAAD, Lambda Legal, National Center for Transgender Equality, Transgender Law Center, and Outright International sent a letter to President Biden and Congress cautioning them against trading protections for LGBTQ immigrants in exchange for a one-time spending bill.

(San Francisco, CA, December 21, 2020) - Today, Lambda Legal, Immigration Equality, and co-counsel Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, filed a federal lawsuit, Immigration Equality v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, challenging the Trump administration's recently published "death to asylum" rule, which makes sweeping, essentially fatal changes to the United States asylum system.

(Washington, D.C., December 10, 2020) - Today, Trump's Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice announced they will soon publish a new rule that eviscerates the United States asylum system. The ban will make it virtually impossible for LGBTQ people and those living with HIV who fled persecution in their countries of origin to secure asylum in the U.S. Likewise, it almost entirely bans women who make gender-based claims and victims of non-state violence from obtaining asylum.

(RICHMOND, VA AND ATLANTA, GA -- October 27, 2020) - On Monday, two key legal victories on behalf of married same-sex couples and their children became final after the U.S. State Department withdrew its appeal in Kiviti v. Pompeo and decided not to appeal the district court's decision in Mize-Gregg v. Pompeo. In both cases, federal district courts found the U.S. Department of State's refusal to recognize the U.S. citizenship of the children born abroad to two married same-sex, U.S. citizen couples to be unlawful.

(New York, NY -- January 17, 2020) Lambda Legal, Immigration Equality and pro bono counsel Morgan Lewis this week urged federal district courts in Georgia and Maryland to compel the U.S. State Department to recognize the U.S. citizenship of two children born abroad to married same-sex couples who are themselves U.S. citizens. Children born abroad to married different-sex parents who are U.S. citizens are routinely recognized as U.S. citizens, but the State Department is deliberately miss-applying federal statutes to deny similar treatment to the marital children of same-sex couples.

New York, NY - September 27, 2016 -- Today, Immigration Equality and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center will launch the LGBTQ New Americans Project, featuring audio and video oral histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer immigrants living in Brooklyn and throughout New York City.

New York, NY - December 1, 2015 - Today Immigration Equality, the nation's leading organization representing and advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and HIV-affected immigrants, celebrated news from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that it would no longer pursue using Adelanto Detention Facility in California as a center for detaining transgender immigrants. The news comes after a months long campaign by the National LGBTQ Immigration Working Group headed by Immigration Equality, which included sending an open letter to President Obama from the group's more than 100 LGBTQ, immigration, and civil rights organizations, including CIVIC, National Center for Transgender Equality, and United We Dream.

New York, NY - October 9, 2015 -- Immigration Equality, the leading organization advocating for and representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and HIV-affected immigrants, today honored its Executive Director Caroline Dessert on her one year anniversary leading the organization.

New York, NY - October 28, 2015 -- Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which exercises federal jurisdiction in six districts within the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, issued its decision in Lora v. Shanahan, finding that a statute permitting indefinite detention for immigrants accused of certain criminal acts was unconstitutional.