LGBTQ+ Rights
The ACLU of Georgia works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, & queer people belong everywhere and can live openly and authentically without discrimination, harassment, or violence.
The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in 1936. What is now the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project was founded in 1986 and renamed in 2021. Today, the ACLU brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does. In fact, the ACLU has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided — more than any other organization. With our reach into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our record of making progress both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion.
The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to protect LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.
News Articles
- ACLU suing Georgia for excluding transgender health coverage and care on Medicaid
- Atlanta plaintiff reacts to Supreme Court LGBTQ ruling
- Supreme Court ruling protects LGBTQ workers from job discrimination
- Victory in Supreme Court case for Georgia man protects LGBTQ workers across the nation
- Supreme Court ruling protects LGBTQ workers from job discrimination
Editorials
- ACLU blog: Supreme Court Says Firing Workers Because They Are LGBTQ Is Unlawful Discrimination
- ACLU of Georgia: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Means for Georgia and LGBTQ Rights
Press Releases and Advisories
- ACLU Sues Georgia Over Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Transgender People On Medicaid
- Press Advisory: ACLU of Georgia Opposes SB 266, a Bill Harmful to State’s Transgender Youth
- Press Release: ACLU of Georgia Calls Appeals Court Ruling a Victory for the Transgender Community
- Press Release: ACLU Files Brief Supporting Civil Rights Protections for LGBT Employees
- Press Release: ACLU of Georgia Urges State Senate to Remove Anti-LGBT Language from Adoption Bill
- Press Advisory: ACLU of Georgia Legal Director to Testify at Senate Hearing Against Bill That Creates a License to Discriminate
- Calls for anti-discrimination law, religious protections follow ruling
- Press Release: Macon Takes a Stand Against Discrimination
- ACLU of Georgia Executive Director Andrea Young Applauds Report Calling for Comprehensive Non-Discrimination Protections