Boston Pride Boycott: GLAD Joins In (Updated)
BOSTON—GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) joined in solidarity with Black trans leaders and former Boston Pride volunteers in calling for transformation at the Boston…
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Black And Pink MA Launches Bold Legislative Agenda
Bill State Sen. Julian Cyr and State Rep. Jack Patrick Lewis Worked with Black and Pink Massachusetts to File a Fourth Bill to Repeal Archaic…
Trans Military Ban Reversed
As Promised, President Joe Biden Delivers For The LGBTQ+ Community; Reverses Trans Military Ban Today, President Biden issued an executive order lifting the ban on…
GLAD Joins Call To Remove Trump
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) Executive Director Janson Wu issued the following statement in response to yesterday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol: On January…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Orgs. Mourn Her Passing
NCLR Mourns Loss of LGBTQ Equality Champion Justice Bader Ginsburg, Commit to Continue to Fight to Honor Her Legacy SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—The National Center for…
Accelerating Acceptance Report Finds LGBTQ Discrimination Rising Among Youth, Veracity Challenged
By: Audrey Cole/Reporter— BOSTON—Although more young people are outwardly identifying as LGBTQ than ever before, there is allegedly a greater lack of queer acceptance by…
AG Healey Leads Multi State Court Brief Opposing Ban on Trans Service Members
BOSTON—Attorney General Maura Healey today led a coalition of 15 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief strongly opposing the Trump Administration’s plan to ban open military service…
GLAD and NCLR File Case Challenging Trump’s Directive to Reinstate Transgender Military Ban
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, lawyers from GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S….
Former US Atty. General Eric Holder to Receive GLAD’s 2017 Spirit of Justice Award
The Honorable Eric H. Holder Jr., whose tenure as U.S. Attorney General under President Barack Obama marked huge advances in LGBTQ rights, will be the…
GLAD on Nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court
Yesterday, the President nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the United States Supreme Court. GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), which litigates in federal…
Ropes & Gray, GLAD and MTPC Partner to Launch Transgender ID Project
New Rapid-Response Program Creates Free Legal Resource for New England Transgender Community BOSTON—Global law firm Ropes & Gray, together with GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)…
Mass. SJC Establishes Parental Rights for Non-Marital Parents
Non-Marital Parental Rights are finally defined and change parenting for unmarried couples from now on Today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a decision…
MA Gov. Baker Signs Historic Insurance Mandate to Cover HIV-Associated Lipodystrophy
No more suffering for lipodystrophy sufferers; will now be treated by insurance companies in the commonwealth By: Luke Sherman/TRT Reporter— After two decades of legal battles,…
MA Legislature Passes Insurance Mandate to Cover HIV-Associated Lipodystrophy
GLAD Applauds First-of-its-kind Legislation, HIV Lipodystrophy treatment now covered by insurance The Massachusetts House and Senate approved a bill late last night requiring insurance coverage…
Vermont’s High Court Hears Parentage Case Involving Lesbian Co-Parents
Today Vermont’s Supreme Court heard arguments in Sinnott v. Peck, a case involving a lesbian couple who raised two adopted children together for over ten years….
GLAD & NCLR Applaud U.S. Dept. of Education Mandate on Equal Treatment of Transgender Students
SAN FRANCISCO—GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) today applaud a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals…
Rising Star Jess T. Dugan Transforms Minds Through Portraits of Transgender Trailblazers
By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special to TRT— There’s a photograph of Jess T. Dugan from 2005 with bandages over where her breasts used to be. She’s standing…
Law Firm & Organizations File Lawsuit: Paves Way for Improvements to Overpayment Collection Practices for LGBT Couples Receiving SSI
As a result, in part, of a lawsuit filed by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), Justice in Aging, and Foley Hoag LLP on behalf…
Ensuring LGBT Elders of Color Can Age With Dignity and Respect
By: Janson Wu/GLAD Executive Director— My mom is turning 70 this year. She lives with my sister and her husband in Michigan, where she helps…
GLAD is Now GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders
BOSTON—Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), the precedent-setting legal organization that has fought for LGBTQ and HIV rights for nearly 40 years, is announcing…
The State of Transgender Rights: Legislation, Empowerment and Equality
By: Nicole Lashomb/Editor-in-Chief— Despite heightened transgender awareness in the U.S., largely due to reality star Caitlyn Jenner’s emergence, the reality of transgender rights and struggles…
LGBT, Racial Equality & Health Groups File Amicus Brief in U.S. Supreme Court
Brief Challenges Texas Abortion Restrictions Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and a coalition of 13 other LGBT, racial justice, and health equity organizations…
MA Transgender Rights Bill Fails to Come to Vote; Reactions
Development will be updated with more reactions from Bay Staters By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter— BOSTON, Mass—Massachusetts legislators left for the holiday recess without bringing to…