RI urgently needs to update our parentage laws which haven’t changed since the 1970’s. The Senate unanimously passed the Parentage Act; parents and community advocates ... Read More

Legislation introduced yesterday by Senator Gillibrand (D-NY) and 15 other U.S. Senators to End Discrimination in the Child Welfare System WASHINGTON, D.C. — GLBTQ Legal Advocates ... Read More

(Boston, MA) GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announced today that its 2019 Spirit of Justice Award will go to Chai R. Feldblum. GLAD will ... Read More

NCLR and GLAD Respond to President Trump’s Statements about the Transgender Military Ban Organizations leading the legal fight against the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military ... Read More

Today with Governor Janet Mills’ signature, Maine became the 17th state in the U.S. to ban the practice of conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth. Every ... Read More

The U.S. House today voted to pass the Equality Act, legislation that would enshrine explicit, comprehensive protections for all LGBTQ people, including in employment, housing, ... Read More

  New Jersey Governor Murphy joins the governors of California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington in opposing Trump’s transgender military ban   Governor Phil Murphy announced today ... Read More

Providence – Parents, community advocates, family law attorneys and others spoke out yesterday about the urgent need to modernize Rhode Island’s parentage statutes, which were ... Read More

The Supreme Court agreed today to hear three cases testing the reach of Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act in protecting LGBTQ Americans ... Read More

GLAD says, “That the Trump administration has pushed so hard to be allowed to implement this baseless, immoral and un-American ban is nothing short of ... Read More