Cases | Doe v. Ladapo
“We have no choice but to fight this ban to protect our daughter’s health.” -Plaintiff Jane Doe, challenging the policy on behalf of herself and her ... Read More
Racial Justice
GLAD is focused on ensuring that legal strategies to advance LGBTQ+ equity and equality acknowledge intersecting oppressions and advance interlocking social movements, particularly movements for racial justice.
GLAD’s work focuses on both harm reduction within systems that disproportionately target and harm LGBTQ+ people of color as well as the imperative to reform, dismantle and create alternatives to the systems themselves. LGBTQ+ youth of color are over-disciplined in school, disproportionately targeted by police, and disproportionately represented in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. LGBTQ+ adults of color are disproportionately represented and face exceptionally brutal treatment in our systems of incarceration. The HIV epidemic continues to disproportionally harm communities of color, especially gay men of color, who lack equal access to life-saving prophylactic medications such as PrEP.
GLAD challenges discriminatory systems, policies, and practices; engages in intentional, sustained partnerships with LGBTQ communities of color; and works to build and maintain coalitions with allied social justice movements.
Advocacy | Improving Access to PrEP in Rhode Island
Rhode Island’s H6150 will expand access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – a game-changing medication that reduces the risk of HIV transmission by close to 100 ... Read More
Pueblo v. Haas
Carrie Pueblo and Rachel Haas—partners in a committed same-sex relationship—chose to have a child together using assisted insemination, with Ms. Haas carrying the child. When ... Read More
Advocacy | Security for Families Through Confirmatory Adoption in Rhode Island
H 5226/S 0121 is common-sense legislation that offers security to Rhode Island children and protects LGBTQ+ families by ensuring access to confirmatory adoption. Adoption is an ... Read More
Cases | Doe v. Manchester School District
Students should feel safe and supported in school. Our brief with the ACLU of NH warns that reversing public schools’ long-understood discretion in disclosing information about ... Read More
Advocacy | Voters’ Rights in Maine
Voter ID laws are a form of voter suppression and keep eligible voters from being able to actively participate in our political process. Together with EqualityMaine, ... Read More
Advocacy | Protecting People Seeking Reproductive or Transgender Healthcare in Vermont
Vermont H. 89, An Act Relating to Civil and Criminal Procedures Concerning Legally Protected Health Care Activity, seeks to protect individuals providing or seeking reproductive ... Read More
Advocacy | Removing Barriers to PrEP in Massachusetts
PrEP is a simple, safe, and effective medication that reduces the risk of HIV transmission by close to 100% and provides our best opportunity to ... Read More
Advocacy | PrEP Access in Massachusetts
PrEP is a safe and effective medication that prevents the transmission of HIV. But only 9,113 of 24,900 Massachusetts residents at high risk for HIV ... Read More
Advocacy | Parentage Equality for Massachusetts Families
The Massachusetts Parentage Act (MPA) will affirm and protect our families, ensuring that all children can access the security of legal parentage. There are many paths ... Read More
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