December 17, 2019 Contact: Amanda Johnston | 617-417-7769 | ajohnston@glad.org   Rhode Islanders for Parentage Equality Calls for Fixing State’s Outdated Parentage Law So Children Aren’t Left Vulnerable Parents and ... Read More

Healthcare Protections for the Massachusetts Transgender Community: Questions and Answers About State Protections and Threats at the Federal Level October 29, 2019 The Trump administration and other ... Read More

Today the Trump administration announced a proposed new Health and Human Services rule permitting, among other things, discrimination by taxpayer-funded adoption and foster agencies. The ... Read More

Portland, MAINE – EqualityMaine and Maine Transgender Network, in coalition with GLAD-GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and Maine Women’s Lobby, announced today that MaineCare, Maine’s ... Read More

(Boston, MA) GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) is thrilled to announce the appointment of three new board members: Jessyca Feliciano, Matthew McGuirk, and Spencer ... Read More

                    We are profoundly disturbed by the events surrounding the ‘Straight Pride’ parade in Boston on August 31, ... Read More

This weekend saw two more mass shootings in the U.S. – one in Dayton, OH and the other in El Paso, TX. While we have ... Read More

In a friend-of-the-court brief, GLAD, NCLR and other LGBTQ equality organizations make the case that rolling back the understanding that discrimination against LGBTQ workers is ... Read More

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