GLAD Legal Briefs: Discussing race, disability, sexual orientation & gender ID in the classroom
Over the past year, we have seen an alarming trend in attempts to censor classroom discussions about race and LGBTQ+ issues, from bans on teaching the history...
RI Congressman David Cicilline leads opposition to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills
Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chair David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Vice Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida led 27 of their colleagues in a letter of opposition against two Florida state...
Mass. Trans Political Coalition receives $100K grant for leadership academy
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition has received a $100,000 Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant from the Mass. Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. The funds will support MTPC's Trans Leadership Academy....
OUT Maine launches online professional development portal
This just in from OUT Maine: Thanks to generous donations from Jane’s Trust and You Have Our Trust Fund, OUT Maine has converted several of its in-person trainings to online, self-paced, engaging...
Vermont Reads program focuses on LGBTQ youth for its 2021 selection
The Vermont Humanities Council has selected the LGBTQ young adult novel "We Contain Multitudes" for its Vermont Reads program's book selection of 2021.
Partnering with schools, libraries and...
Supreme Court takes up challenge to Maine’s policy against funding private, anti-LGBTQ religious schools
The US Supreme Court added a case to their next term that will once again involve "the growing conflict over providing government benefits to private religious schools that refuse to admit or...
Vermont police treating vandalized LGBTQ school artwork as hate crime
The defacement of about a dozen chalk drawings in support of LGBTQ rights created by student volunteers at their elementary and middle school in Hinesburg, Vermont, is being treated by police as...
OUT Maine awarded $100K to create online LGBTQ educational tools
OUT Maine, the Rockport, Maine–based LGBTQ youth support nonprofit, has been awarded $100,000 to create online educational tools for schools and providers.
Here's what OUT Maine is doing...
Portland, ME school board votes on ‘rooting out homophobia’ in schools
Portland, Maine's Board of Education is scheduled to vote this afternoon on a resolution that would turn a spate of threatening letters into a teaching opportunity.
According to...
Northern Light Health in Maine partners with Bangor bookstore to bring LGBTQ titles to...
Northern Light Health, a psychiatric hospital in Bangor, Maine, is partnering with The Briar Patch bookstore, a local Bangor business, to distribute more than 100 LGBTQ books to staff, patients and families,...
