Press Releases

ACLU of Virginia remarks on freedom to marry cases before U.S. Supreme Court

Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, released a statement regarding oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court involving challenges to the Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee bans on marriage rights for same-sex couples.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights

ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Honored for Work to Ensure Equality for All Virginians

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga has been named to Equality Virginia’s 2015 class of OUTstanding Virginians.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights

ACLU of Virginia Welcomes New Procedures on Birth Certificates for Children of Married, Same-sex Couples

The letter from Janet M. Rainey, Virginia’s Registrar for Vital Records, to hospital administrators instructs hospitals that the children of two women who are married to each other should have both parents listed on their birth certificates.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights

ACLU Files Federal Discrimination Complaint against Local Va. School Board for Bathroom Policy

The American Civil Liberties Union filed an administrative complaint with the Department of Justice and Department of Education against Gloucester County Public Schools for adopting a bathroom policy that segregates transgender students from using the same restrooms and locker rooms as their peers.
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights

ACLU of Virginia Denounces Gloucester School Board Vote for Discriminatory Policy

Tonight, the Gloucester School Board voted to accept a policy that will discriminate against transgender students by requiring them either to use bathroom and locker room facilities that are inconsistent with their gender identity or use “an alternative private facility.”
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights

ACLU Urges Gloucester School Board to Reject Harmful, Discriminatory Bathroom Policy

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Virginia sent a letter yesterday to the Gloucester County School Board urging it to reject a proposed policy that would limit school restrooms and locker rooms to “the corresponding biological genders”
Issue Areas: LGBTQ+ Rights