Massachusetts Senate unanimously passes Parentage Act, sends bill to gov.
Yesterday, the Massachusetts Senate voted unanimously to pass "An act to ensure legal parentage equality," better known as the Massachusetts Parentage Act, a historic piece of legislation that will protect LGBTQ+ families, and children...
Northampton Jewish day school hosts drag queen Shabbat ceremony
The goal of the event was inspired by the national, San Francisco-based Drag Queen Story Hour, whose mission aims to "capture the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and give kids...
‘Ex-lesbian’ mom from Vermont who kidnapped daughter is in custody
Nearly a decade ago, Lisa Miller, then of Vermont, renounced "the homosexual lifestyle," kidnapped the daughter she'd given birth to with her partner in a civil union, fled the state and eventually...
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs Parentage Act into law
On August 9, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed into law "An act to ensure legal parentage equality," which updates the state’s parentage laws for the first time in 40 years to make...
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...
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...
Rhode Island woman forced to adopt her own biological son
The baby is linked biologically to both of his mothers, Sara Watson and Anna Ford of South County, Rhode Island. The couple used Watson’s egg, while Ford carried and delivered him. But Watson was...
Connecticut Parentage Act would bring equity to LGBTQ parents
A bill aimed at updating Connecticut law to recognize both parents of a same-sex couple as the legal parents of their children just passed from the state's judiciary committee to a vote...
SJC ruling moves Massachusetts closer to equal LGBTQ parentage rights
GLAD (GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders) recently won a victory in Massachusetts' highest court that brings the Bay State once step closer to passing the Massachusetts Parentage Act.
The...
Connecticut Parenting Act sails through state’s house and senate
The Connecticut Parentage Act — a bill that would extend parenting rights to all couples regardless of their gender, sexual orientation or marital status — sailed through the...
