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CNN en Español and NTN24, tonight, will feature in-depth analysis from CHLP Legal Director Iván Espinoza-Madrigal on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's gay rights decisions on the movement for LGBT and HIV equality, particularly people of color and immigrants.

In two landmark decisions today, the U.S. Supreme Court sent a powerful reminder that individual "moral and sexual choices" are protected by the U.S. Constitution, and that laws and policies designed to exclude people based on their characteristics and identity are intolerable forms of discrimination, marginalization, and institutionalization of second-class citizen status. 

Radio Bilingüe, the Spanish-language public radio in the U.S., held a discussion today on the Supreme Court's gay rights cases. As CHLP's Legal Director Iván Espinoza-Madrigal explained in the programming, the gay rights cases confirm that our "moral and sexual choices" are Constitutionally protected.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a resolution calling for the elimination of HIV-specific criminal laws.

The New York State Assembly passed A2736, known as the "No Condoms as Evidence" bill, on Friday, June 20, 2013. The bill (A2736/SB1369) was introduced in the Senate by Velmanette Montgomery and in the Assembly by Barbara Clark.

In Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society Internation, No. 12-10, a case concerning funding under the Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 for HIV advocacy and relief efforts abroad, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal requirement that funding recipients affirm opposition to sex work.

CHLP members Catherine Hanssens and Rashida Richardson will be attending a forum tonight at 10pm on WWRL (AM 1600) that will focus on HIV Criminalization.  Hosted by Virginia Fields, President and CEO of the National Black Leadership on AIDS.  

The New York City Council held a hearing on June 18 on Resolution No. 710-A, calling on the New York State Legislature to prohibit condom possession from being used as evidence of wrongdoing. CHLP weighed in.

As part of an Hispanic AIDS Forum workshop on sexual health advocacy, The Center for HIV Law & Policy discusses the role of sexual orientation and HIV status in immigration law, and the importance of immigrants' rights in the movement for LGBT and HIV equality.  

Louisiana settled a constitutional challenge to sex offender registration requirements imposed on sex workers that disproportionately affected African American women and gay and transgender individuals. Alexis Agathocleous of the Center for Constitutional Right and attorney Andrea J. Ritchie of Streetwise and Safe litigated the case on behalf of Women With a Vision and affected sex workers.