Today the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted for final passage of HB 587, a bill to ban the discredited and dangerous practice of conversion ... Read More

On May 3, the Connecticut legislature passed SB13 An Act Concerning Fair Treatment of Incarcerated Persons, which includes some of the strongest protections in the ... Read More

Following reports of violent and demeaning treatment of transgender women seeking asylum at the US border, including news of a shelter in which the women ... Read More

In a bipartisan 14-10 vote, the New Hampshire Senate today passed HB 1319, a bill that will provide explicit comprehensive nondiscrimination protections for transgender people ... Read More

Today, GLAD honors GLSEN’s annual Day of Silence, a student-led national event to raise awareness of and to peacefully protest the bullying and harassment of ... Read More

RIVERSIDE, Calif.—The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) filed their opposition last night to a Trump-Pence Administration request ... Read More

Statement of GLAD Senior Staff Attorney Patience Crozier GLAD congratulates Connecticut for closing the Connecticut Training School, the last large youth prison in the state. This ... Read More

The American Medical Association recently issued a powerful letter in support of transgender servicemembers, affirming that “[t]here is no medically valid reason… to exclude transgender ... Read More

Trump Announces Plan for Implementing His Transgender Military Ban Today’s announcement has no immediate impact, as four federal courts have already prohibited the ban from taking ... Read More

Brief argues that exclusion of LGBT people from Title VII’s protection is unworkable and unfair ST. LOUIS, MO—Yesterday, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) ... Read More