GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) will kick off 2017 with new leadership on its Board of Directors. At its December meeting the board voted ... Read More

A major part of GLAD’s work throughout our organizational life has focused on families. That has been true before, during, and after our success on marriage ... Read More

Bryce Helie and Cara Millett met in college in 1999 and soon became inseparable.  After graduating, they moved to Rhode Island, where Bryce opened up ... Read More

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), representing four Massachusetts churches, today formally withdrew the lawsuit it had recently filed, claiming that the Massachusetts public accommodations non-discrimination ... Read More

Community colleges offer open access to affordable academic and workforce training programs. It is critical that these community institutions are inclusive to all, including transgender students. GLAD ... Read More

GLAD has signed on to a letter supporting Ms. Chelsea Manning’s petition for clemency, commuting her court-martial sentence to time-served. Since she was first taken into ... Read More

Amanda Johnston The new year will bring GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders a new director of public affairs and education: Amanda Johnston, who has served as ... Read More

BOSTON, Dec. 2, 2016  —  Jacqueline Cote and Walmart Announce Class Settlement Over Health Insurance Benefits for Same-Sex Spouses of Walmart Associates. Read more If you ... Read More

BOSTON, Dec. 2, 2016  — Former Walmart associate Jacqueline Cote and her lawyers filed a motion today asking the U.S. District Court for the District of ... Read More

GLAD and AIDS Action Committee filed a brief November 28 at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in a suit fighting efforts by the town of Barnstable to ... Read More