Boston Marriott Copley Place | Boston | October 25, 2019
Over 1,000 LGBTQ community members and allies gathered for the GLAD’s festive 20th annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner to celebrate and raise over a million dollars in support of GLAD’s mission to create a future of justice. The Spirit of Justice Award was presented to civil rights legal pioneer Chai R. Feldblum, the first openly gay commissioner, nominated in 2009 by President Obama, to serve the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Speakers also included GLAD’s Executive Director Janson Wu and Senior Attorney and AIDS Project Director Ben Klein, and Angelina Resto, who shared her moving story of how she worked with GLAD to become the first transgender woman in Massachusetts to secure a transfer to be housed according to her gender and the first in the country to do so as a result of a court order.
