Massachusetts Governor Baker signs into law the bill protecting access to abortion and...
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law today sweeping legislation protecting access to abortion care and transgender health care for people across the Bay State and for residents of other states where...
NH attorney general urges SCOTUS to uphold West Va. law barring trans girls from...
New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella has signed onto an amicus brief with 25 other attorneys general calling on the US Supreme Court to reverse a recent appeals court ruling in favor...
Getting to Zero MA Coalition fellows host online symposium on sex work decriminalization, this...
The Getting to Zero Activist Academy, in partnership with Fenway Health and AIDS Action Committee, is hosting a symposium about the national movement to decriminalize sex work, and how this movement is...
Massachusetts Senate unanimously passes Parentage Act, sends bill to gov.
Yesterday, the Massachusetts Senate voted unanimously to pass "An act to ensure legal parentage equality," better known as the Massachusetts Parentage Act, a historic piece of legislation that will protect LGBTQ+ families, and children...
Connecticut Parenting Act sails through state’s house and senate
The Connecticut Parentage Act — a bill that would extend parenting rights to all couples regardless of their gender, sexual orientation or marital status — sailed through the...
Senate Judiciary approves openly LGBT Vermont justice to US federal court
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve Vermont Supreme Court Associate Justice Beth Robinson to become the first openly LGBT woman to sit on a federal circuit court in the United...
GLAD explains SCOTUS ruling on Catholic Social Services adoption case
Though the US Supreme Court issued an unanimous ruling in favor of a religious organization seeking to discriminate against LGBTQ people hoping to become adoptive parents, the Court left "intact the broader...
GLAD applauds Biden’s affirmation of LGBTQ protections in health care
The Biden White House this week reversed the discriminatory policies against LGBTQ people's access to health care enacted by the previous administration.
In a nutshell, this means...
MA AG Healey leads 20-state coalition defending anti-discrimination law
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is leading a coalition of 20 state attorneys general in filing a legal brief that supports Virginia's anti-discrimination law. That law is being challenged in a case...
Congress members oppose SCOTUS challenge to nondiscrimination laws
Rep. David Cicilline (RI), chair of the LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, and Rep. Chris Pappas (NH), Equality Caucus cochair, are among some 123 members of the US Congress who filed an amicus brief...
