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History is repeating: Attacks on trans youth are attacks on us all; we can confront them together

From ballot initiatives to repeal, to local nondiscrimination ordinances in the 1970s, through the wave of statewide measures banning marriage for same-sex couples in...

GLAD Law: You can’t ‘take back’ our families; the freedom to marry endures

Within the churn of political, cultural, economic and legal forces that shape our society, LGBTQ+ Americans have built something enduring: the freedom to marry...

GLAD Law: Ensuring nondiscrimination laws continue to do their job

GLAD Law is in federal court representing Lillian Bernier, a transgender woman who works nights in a manufacturing plant operated by Turbocam, Inc. Like most...

GLAD Law: No kids should be denied the important life lessons that come from school sports

For many young people, school sports instill important life lessons of leadership, confidence, sportsmanship and perseverance, in addition to what it means to be...

Meet Ricardo Martinez, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defender’s new executive director

  Ricardo Martinez took the helm as Executive Director of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) September 4. Ricardo served the past five years as CEO...

GLAD: The Growing Need to Protect Access to Health Care

Doctors who care for transgender youth follow well-established standards developed through decades of clinical study. It is developmentally appropriate treatment requiring informed consent of...

GLAD: What’s on the horizon in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality?

What’s on the horizon in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality? As we begin the search for GLAD’s next executive director, we asked staff and board...

GLAD Legal Briefs: Standing up for democracy

As we head into the fall, each of us must join the fight for justice and our democracy.  This June, the US Supreme Court eviscerated...

GLAD to honor Byllye Avery and Ngina Lythcott at Summer Party in P’town

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) will honor Byllye Avery and Ngina Lythcott, renowned national leaders for reproductive justice, civil rights, and health equity,...

With SCOTUS pulling back protections for individual rights, Mass. can act to protect LGBTQ families

On June 24, a majority of Justices of the US Supreme Court overturned a half-century-old precedent protecting access to abortion throughout the country. The...

Case against assisted living center in Maine settled in favor of trans woman

Marie King, a 79-year-old transgender woman, and Sunrise Assisted Living have reached a landmark settlement in a case at the Maine Human Rights Commission...

A message from GLAD Chief Legal Strategist Michael Johnson

We are at a pivotal time in our movement for LGBTQ rights.  I am inspired and humbled to have joined GLAD as Chief Legal Strategist...

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