The ACLU of Alabama works to create a Alabama free of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This means a Alabama where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) people can live openly, where our identities, relationships and families are respected, and where there is fair treatment on the job, in schools, housing, public places, health care, and government programs.
Since taking its first LGBTQ rights case in 1936, the ACLU has been involved in many high-profile legal challenges to discriminatory laws and policies that impact the LGBTQ community. The ACLU of Alabama recently enjoyed a major victory for LGBTQ rights by challenging and succeeding in overturning the state’s discriminatory law banning gay men and lesbians from adopting.
The ACLU’s LGBTQ rights strategy is based on the belief that fighting for the society we want means not just persuading judges and government officials, but ultimately changing the way society thinks about LGBTQ people. To end discrimination, the ACLU seeks both to change the law and to convince Americans that sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination is wrong.