Blog of Rights

James
Esseks

EEOC Breakthrough: Anti-Transgender Discrimination Is Unlawful

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 4:16pm
Consider this: A person applies for a job at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives as a ballistics forensic technician, is ... Read More

Maryland: Breakthrough Moment on the Freedom to Marry!

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 12:37pm
With yesterday’s passage of a Maryland bill opening the freedom to marry to same-sex couples, there’s no denying it anymore – we’re at a ... Read More

Love Is in the Air: Update on Efforts to Expand the Freedom to Marry

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 3:09pm
A quick guide to what's happening with efforts to expand marriage for same-sex couples on the ground now and what’s in store for us during the rest of 2012. Read More

Clinging to the Side of a Pool, Fighting for Equality

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 5:18pm
The country and the ACLU lost a champion of civil rights earlier this month, when Robert L. Carter, federal judge and former general counsel of the NAACP, died at ... Read More

Just Plain Mean

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 5:06pm
Today we challenged a new Michigan law that bars cities and counties from providing health insurance to the domestic partners of their employees. Read More

Wear That Dress or Else!

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 4:59pm
That’s basically what a high school principal told Ceara Sturgis at the start of her senior year — you’ve got to wear a “drape,” or ... Read More

Court Strikes Down Wisconsin Law Prohibiting Medical Treatment for Transgender Prisoners

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 3:31pm
Last Friday, we got a fabulous ruling from a federal appeals court striking down a Wisconsin law that prohibited prison doctors from prescribing medically ... Read More

Excuse Me, Ma'am, This Isn’t Your ID

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 2:34pm
Last fall, K.L., an Alaskan who transitioned to living as a woman two years ago, got her local Department of Motor Vehicles office to change the gender marker on ... Read More

On a Roll — Marriage in New York!

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 4:17pm
I’m sure you’ve heard the fabulous news that the New York State Senate passed the marriage bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has championed the measure ... Read More

A Hard-Earned Victory for Arkansas Kids

By James Esseks, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project at 4:36pm
I’m thrilled to report that we’ve just struck down a second state parenting ban. Just six months after we got rid of Florida’s 33-year-old ban on ... Read More
Statistics image