New England AGs urge for federal workplace protections based on sexual orientation
Attorneys General T. J. Donovan of Vermont, Maura Healey of Massachusetts and George Jepson of Connecticut have joined a group of 15 US state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief that calls for...
N.H. house votes to include trans people in state anti-discrimination law
New Hampshire's House of Representatives voted 195–129 to include transgender people in the state's anti-discrimination law yesterday. The bill now moves on to the state's Senate, which will vote on it in the coming...
GLAD urges Bay State to enact full rights for nonbiological parents
“While Massachusetts now recognizes that same-sex, non-birth parents are full, legal parents, the state has dragged its feet in making that status a reality,” says Polly Crozier, GLTBQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) senior...
NH Log Cabin Republicans cofounder named to human rights commission
Granite State Governor Chris Sununu and the state's Executive Council appointed Doug Palardy to the state's seven-member Commission for Human Rights on February 9. The council investigates, mediates and enforces discrimination violations.
One of four cofounders...
New Hampshire House votes to protect LGBT youth from conversion therapy
The New Hampshire House of Representatives approved a bill to ban conversion therapy in the state on February 8. After voting it down only a month ago by a single vote, the bill passed this...
Maine Rep. Fecteau to present conversion therapy ban for Maine
A bill to ban conversion therapy in Maine will be presented in the state's House of Representatives on February 14, according to today's "Eyes on Augusta" column in The Free Press. The bill was...
Federal court upholds R.I. lesbian firefighter’s discrimination ruling
"Sticks and stones may break some bones, but harassment can hurt forever."
These are the opening words in the federal appeals court ruling that upheld a 2016 lower court jury decision in favor of Providence...
Granite State legislature re-introduces transgender nondiscrimination bill
A new transgender nondiscrimination bill has been scheduled for a hearing on January 31 by the New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee. Similar legislation was defeated in 2007 and tabled in 2017.
"The bill would bar...
Bay State printer sued for swapping wedding program with hate pamphlets
A Massachusetts printing company is being sued for sending out hateful, anti-LGBT pamphlets in place of wedding programs ordered for the nuptials of a same-sex couple.
On the evening before their wedding ceremony, the couple,...
Connecticut governor nominates first openly gay SJC justice to lead a state’s top court
"Intellect, temperament and respect for the rule of law" — these were the top three qualities Connecticut Governor Dannell Malloy identified in the state's Supreme Court Justice Andrew McDonald when the governor nominated McDonald...
