This week is the 7th annual National LGBT Health Awareness Week sponsored by the National Coalition for LGBT Health. Commemorate the week with Lambda Legal by becoming a Partner for Health Care Fairness and help to call on President Obama and the new administration to ensure that fairness to LGBT people and people living with HIV is prioritized in our nation's health care system.Lambda Legal receives hundreds of calls every year from LGBT people and people with HIV who face discrimination from health care providers and facilities. And through their cases and Help Desk Lambda Legal helps them fight back when they are unlawfully discriminated against in health care settings.
Just last year Lambda Legal won a legal victory for Lupita Benitez, a lesbian in California who was denied infertility treatment by doctors who claimed that their religious beliefs gave them the right to ignore discrimination laws. Lambda Legal is also seeking justice for Janice Langbehn and her children, because a hospital in Miami refused to recognize her and her children as family and prevented her from visiting her partner as she lay dying. And Lambda Legal representing Dennis Barros in his fight against a Florida fertility clinic that refused to provide medical care to him because he is gay.
These are just a few stories behind the many lawsuits Lambda Legal has filed over the years while fighting for health care fairness for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those living with HIV. President Obama made health care reform a priority, but it is up to us to ensure that protections for LGBT people and people with HIV are a part of that agenda. That's why Lambda Legal is leading a Health Care Fairness Campaign.
Sign this petition to President Obama and encourage everyone you know to do the same. Health care reform is being debated now. Make sure your voice is heard.
