National leaders rally in support of Equality Act at Senate hearing today
As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to hear witness testimony today, March 17, on the Equality Act — legislation that would modernize our nation’s civil rights laws for all while expanding to...
GLAD Legal Briefs: Protecting and celebrating our LGBTQ families no matter how we form...
This April marks 20 years since we first filed Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the landmark case that resulted in Massachusetts becoming the first state in the...
Bill to let young adults access HIV prevention and treatment filed in MA
Massachusetts State Reps. Jack Patrick Lewis and Chynah Tyler along with State Sen. Julian Cyr have filed a bill to let young adults, without parental consent, receive prescriptions for PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis protection against...
Anti-gay/trans defense bill sails through Vermont House committee
A bill to ban “gay" and "trans panic” as a legal defense for committing violent acts against LGBTQ people sailed through Vermont's House judiciary committee with unanimous support yesterday. And cosponsoring the...
Mass. SJC affirms college faculty not exempt from anti-discrimination laws
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously struck down the claim of a Christian college in Wenham, Mass. that maintained it has the right, on religious grounds, to discriminate against a faculty member...
US House passes Equality Act; bill moves toward tough Senate vote
The US House of Representatives passed the Equality Act today with a vote of 224–206, breaking largely on party lines. Three Republicans — John Katko and Tom Reed of New York, and...
HRC stands against NH bill to classify gender-affirming care as child abuse
A bill (HB 68) that would classify life-saving, gender-affirming care for transgender youth as child abuse went before the New Hampshire House of Representatives' Children & Family Law committee late last week....
Connecticut legislation would extend benefits to LGBT military veterans
Connecticut lawmakers are proposing an extension of state veterans’ benefits to LGBT members of the armed forces who were withheld honorable discharges because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
All six New England states earn highest ratings on HRC’s Equality Index
This week, the Human Rights Campaign released its seventh annual State Equality Index — their latest national review of statewide laws and policies that affected LGBTQ people and their families over the...
GLAD Legal Briefs: What’s in store for LGBTQ rights in 2021
A New Year and a New Administration
The Trump administration unleashed a wave of attacks in the last four years targeting the entire...
