Discrimination against LGBT relationships takes many forms:

• Most employers don't provide insurance and other benefits to the partners of employees in same-sex relationships.
• Many hospitals don't allow partners to visit or make emergency decisions on medical treatment.
• Few courts allow same-sex couples to jointly adopt children.
• Many universities and municipalities bar same-sex couples from public housing.
• Most states' intestate inheritance laws don't provide for the surviving partner when a member of a same-sex couple dies without a will.

All too often couples don't realize the consequences of our discriminatory laws until it's too late. The hospital refuses to let a man visit his partner who was injured in an accident. The non-biological mom in a lesbian relationship with two kids is unable to take time off from work to care for her sick child. A man loses his home and property when his partner dies without a will.