HIV criminalization advocacy will be a major highlight during AIDS United's Southern REACH Convening at the United State Conference on AIDS. PJP members Rashida Richardson and Robert Suttle will participate in a session on focused on HIV criminalization state-level advocacy strategy development for Southern REACH grantees. This will take place on Friday, September 6, 2013, at 3 PM.
Queens Pride House is hosting a public forum on police misconduct, including condom confiscation in New York City, featuring CHLP Legal Director Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal.
HIV criminalization laws continue to be enforced in states across the country.
LGBT and HIV-affected immigrants experience significant abuse in immigration detention facilities and deprivation of legal protections, according to El Diario/La Prensa.
CHLP's Legal Director, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, will be conducting a workshop at the National LGBT Bar Association's Lavender Law Conference focusing on the rights of LGBT and HIV-affected people at the intersection of immigration and criminal justice systems.
CHLP's Legal Director, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, will be conducting a workshop in Spanish at the National LGBT Bar Association's Lavender Law Conference focusing on serving Spanish-speaking clients and communities.
Gay men can face a uniquely intense form of persecution in Jamaica. Homophobia and ignorance about HIV are reflected in, and compounded by, the widely-held perception of gay men as vectors of disease. Gay men are presumed to be HIV positive and treated as dangerous to be around regardless of their actual HIV status.
U.S. appeals court rejects finding that HIV renders prostitution a "particularly serious crime" warranting deportation of transgender Latina immigrant.