Massachusetts Senate passes bill to make PrEP med available without Rx
Last week, the Massachusetts Senate took a crucial step toward ending the HIV epidemic by passing “An Act enabling pharmacists to prescribe, dispense and administer PrEP” (S.2480).
“We’re grateful...
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...
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...
Attacked owners of Connecticut gay bar call for a hate crime designation
Casey Fitzpatrick and husband Nicholas Ruiz, the owners of Troupe429 who were attacked last month outside their popular Norwalk, Connecticut gay bar, are calling for the incident to be designated as a...
Owner of Teetotaller Cafe in NH wins court case against social media giant
When the social media giant Meta deleted Emmett Soldati's Instagram account for his small cafe Teatotaller — a hotspot for the LGBTQ community then in Somersworth, New Hampshire and now with locations...
Updating gender info on RI birth certificates just got a lot easier
Transgender and nonbinary Rhode Islanders can now update their birth certificates to align with their affirmed gender through a simple form thanks to a new regulation that went into effect yesterday — which...
Connecticut Supreme Court ruling affirms nondiscrimination statute
Last week the Connecticut Supreme Court issued its ruling in "Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Edge Fitness et al.," finding that Edge Fitness violated Connecticut’s nondiscrimination statute by maintaining a separate workout...
Rhode Island Senate passes bill to faciliate adoption for LGBTQ+ families
The Rhode Island Senate last week voted unanimously to pass S 0121, a bill that will streamline the process for confirmatory adoption and make it more accessible for LGBTQ+ parents to ensure security...
Maine Senate approves trans shield law, bill now heads to governor’s desk
Late last week, the Maine Senate voted 21-13 to approve a bill that would protect out-of-state patients seeking gender-affirming care or abortions from states where such health care is illegal, even if...
GLAD Legal Briefs: Discrimination in Jury Service and Selection is an LGBTQ Justice Issue
A fundamental premise of our criminal justice system is that defendants have a right to a fair trial, including the right to be heard by a jury of...
