Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders

We are New England’s leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression.

We filed the first main land marriage equality challenge in the continental US in 1997. Resulting in civil unions in VT. @Deloitte

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As a member of Congress, Gerry knew that federal discrimination would hurt us some day, and he worried about it — and about me — a lot.
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