Boston-based GLAD welcomes new board members, newly elected chair
Alexandra Chandler
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announces Shane Dunn as the new chair of its board of Directors and Mario Nimock as the new vice chair. The organization also welcomes...
All New England states earn highest rating on HRC’s annual equality index
The Human Rights Campaign's ninth annual "State Equality Index 2022" — the latest, just released last week — is out, and once again all six New England states are among the nation's...
US district court allows case against NH ‘banned concepts’ law to proceed
A US district court has ruled that a lawsuit may proceed against a New Hampshire state law that "discourages public school teachers from teaching and talking about race, gender, sexual orientation, disability,...
GLAD files employment discrimination case on behalf of trans worker in NH
This just in from GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD):
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has filed an employment discrimination case on behalf of a transgender woman challenging her...
Maine veteran and his trans daughter sue US DOD for denying medical care
A United States military veteran and his 21-year-old transgender daughter filed a lawsuit this week challenging a federal statute dating back to the 1970s that prevents the daughter from accessing medical coverage...
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...
GLAD Legal Briefs: Standing up for democracy
As we head into the fall, each of us must join the fight for justice and our democracy.
This June, the US Supreme Court eviscerated a half-century-old precedent protecting...
The geopolitics of being Brittney Griner: Where is the LGBTQ+ support?
WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was arrested a week before Russia invaded Ukraine.
On February 17, the Russian Federal Customs Service detained Griner at Sheremetyevo International Airport for allegedly...
Feds investigate bullying incidents in Farmington, Conn. school district
Federal investigators are looking into a complaint filed by parents of LGBTQ students in the Farmington, Connecticut school district who say school officials are not protecting their children against "chronic bullying that...
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...
