GLAD announces appointment of new chief legal strategist, Michael Johnson
After a year-long search, Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announced they have appointed Michael Johnson to be their new chief legal strategist.
“Michael brings to GLAD...
SCOTUS hears Maine case weighing religious ‘freedom’ vs. LGBTQ rights
The US Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments in a case questioning the denial of state-funded tuition assistance to parents who want to send their kids to private religious schools in rural regions...
US Senate confirms Vermont’s Beth Robinson to be first openly LGBTQ woman on federal...
In a historic vote, the US Senate last night confirmed Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson to sit on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which hears cases from...
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...
Maine transgender woman files first-known discrimination claim against an assisted living facility
Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) filed a discrimination case with the Maine Human Rights Commission on behalf of a 78-year-old woman denied a room by Sunrise Assisted Living in Jonesport,...
SCOTUS to hear anti-LGBTQ case against Boston City Hall’s flag policy
As the US Supreme court returns to the bench today, one of their upcoming cases involves a backlash against the LGBTQ Pride flag flying over Boston City Hall.
GLAD Legal Briefs: Urgent action needed for LGBTQ youth in the MA child welfare...
There is increasing understanding among those who advocate for children that structural biases embedded in the child welfare system hurt youth and families, and that these harms fall...
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...
‘Trailblazing’ trans rights pioneer to be GLAD’s 2021 Spirit of Justice honoree
At their 22nd Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner on October 21, the Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) will honor civil rights leader Kylar Broadus, Esq. with its 2021 Spirit...
Exclusion of jurors based on sexual orientation prohibited, MA SJC finds
For the first time, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court "made explicit that the state and federal constitutions prohibit the exclusion of individuals from a jury simply because of their sexual orientation," writes...
