Beth Littrell is counsel in the Southern Regional Office of Lambda Legal, the civil rights group serving lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV.
The Lambda Legal website cites a host of cases Littrell has worked on that have changed the law to help the LGBT and HIV communities. Those cases: struck down a state law that made unmarried sex a crime; reversed a decision to place children in state custody because their mother was in a same-sex relationship; opened rural schoolhouses to the Gay Straight Alliance; upheld a second parent adoption in Florida; removed visitation restrictions from a gay father’s divorce decree; helped win marriage equality in West Virginia and South Carolina; ensured that rainbow flags could fly from Alabama state property; and reversed a Social Security Administration decision refusing to provide disability insurance to a gay father’s nonbiological child.
