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GLAD and BAGLY Unveil “Got Rights Project” for LGBTQ Youth
While Massachusetts has good legal protections for its LGBTQ students, few students know their legal rights or how to exercise them in school. Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and BAGLY: The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth have moved to in to fill that gap …
GLAD Responds to President Obama’s Support for the Freedom to Marry for Same-Sex Couples
The following statement is from Mary Bonauto, the director of the Civil Rights Project at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD):
“President Obama has traveled a road that many Americans have traveled in recent years. Gay and lesbian couples have the same love and make the same commitment as …
CT High Courts Says Employers Can be Liable for Anti-Gay Harassment
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and the Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) applaud a May 4 ruling from the Connecticut Supreme Court that employers can be liable if they fail to protect employees from harassment based on sexual orientation. In Patino v. Birken …
GLAD Hails Landmark Ruling in Surrogacy Case
Addressing the issue of parentage in gestational surrogate births for the first time, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on May 3 ruled that District Courts have the authority under current law to determine who a child’s parents are when the child is conceived through procedures like in vitro …
GLAD Publishes Groundbreaking Transgender Family Law Book
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders is proud to announce the publication of Transgender Family Law: A Guide to Effective Advocacy, the first book to comprehensively address legal issues facing transgender people in the family law context and provide practitioners the tools to effectively represent …
GLAD Statement on New HIV Testing Law:
Today, Governor Deval Patrick will sign into law “An Act to Increase Routine Screening for HIV.” The bill changes the Commonwealth’s HIV testing law by requiring a patient’s verbal, instead of written, consent in order for a doctor to test for HIV.
Bennett Klein, AIDS Law Project Director of Gay …
GLAD Calls on Doctors to Offer HIV Test to Patients Following Passage of House Bill
Bennett Klein, AIDS Law Project Director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), issued the following statement about the passage today in the House of “An Act to Increase Routine Screening for HIV”. The bill changes the Commonwealth’s HIV testing law by requiring a patient’s verbal, …
In Historic First, Appellate Court Will Decide Constitutionality of DOMA
Boston, MA—On Wednesday, April 4, seven married same-sex couples and three widowers went to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to hear appellate arguments in their challenge to Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which disqualifies their marriages from marital …
One Spouse at a Time Rule Applies to Civil Unions as Well as Marriages, GLAD to Argue Before SJC
In a case involving a man who married in Massachusetts without dissolving his Vermont civil union to a different man, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) will argue before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) that the marriage should be considered void.
“It has always been the …
In Historic First, Appellate Court Will Decide Constitutionality of DOMA
Boston, MA—On Wednesday, April 4, seven married same-sex couples and three widowers will go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to hear appellate arguments in their challenge to Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which disqualifies their marriages from marital …