Fighting for your Rights Across the Country. And Making a Difference in the West.

The Military

Steffan. Pruitt. Cammermeyer. These are just some of Lambda's front-page cases, with some of the nation's most compelling plaintiffs, to overturn the military's ban on lesbian and gay servicemembers.

From suing on behalf of Grethe Cammermeyer, the 27-year veteran and Bronze Star recipient, to winning the reinstatement of Rev. Dusty Pruitt's lawsuit against the U.S. Army, Lambda has been at the heart of protecting the rights of men and women who want to serve our country.

And during the six-month transition period before President Clinton makes a decision whether to "ban the ban," Lambda is right there with a strong coalition of groups to provide needed input and pressure.

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The Colorado Initiative

In November, Colorado voters tried to strip away the rights of gay men & lesbians. Lambda was immediately on the scene to challenge the discriminatory initiative, and won an injunction against Amendment 2 until its final fate is decided later this year at trial.

With a coalition of other legal groups, the cities of Denver, Aspen, and Boulder and a group of plaintiffs that include Martina Navratilova, Lambda is on the front line defending your rights when the Right Wing attacks.

Lambda was also the lead counsel in the Riverside, CA ballot initiative challenge, which was the nation's first legal finding that anti-gay initiatives violate the rights of lesbians and gay men to equal protection under the law.

20 years of service to the lesbian, gay, and HIV communities. Establishing legal precedents in employment, domestic partner benefits, child custody, First Amendment rights, immigration, testing and confidentiality, access to health care, insurance, and housing.

HELPING US GROW, HELPING US HELP YOU

A movement is only as strong as the number of people in it. We need you just as you need us. And we need you to support Lambda, so that our next twenty years will be as earthshaking as our first twenty.

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Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund 666 Broadway 606 S. Olive St. New York, NY 10012 Los Angeles, CA 90014 212/995-8585 213/629-2728

Founded 1973-National Headquarters, New York

September 1990-Western Office, Los Angeles

May 1993-Midwest Office, Chicago