Victory! In a first-of-its-kind decision, the Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled that Fontbonne Academy, a Catholic girls’ high school, discriminated against Matthew Barrett on the basis ... Read More

In this 2014 breakthrough decision, Maine’s highest court ruled that denying a transgender girl the use of the girls’ restroom at her school violated her ... Read More

GLAD represented Kerry Considine in a discrimination suit against her employer, Brookdale Senior Living, after Brookdale denied her the right to put her wife, Renee, ... Read More

Update: The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled July 2, 2014 that our client Susan B. is a legal parent to the daughter she brought into the world with her ... Read More

The GLBTQ Domestic Violence Project (GLBTQ-DVP) and GLAD pursued this complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) on behalf of a gay male survivor of ... Read More

GLAD has signed onto a brief filed as amicus in this case at the European Court of Human Rights challenging a Finnish rule that transgender ... Read More

On June 26, 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled DOMA Section 3 unconstitutional in Windsor v. United States. For complete details about this case, the plaintiffs,and ... Read More

May 4, 2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the case. The denial marks the end of the road legally in Kosilek’s ... Read More

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously September 28, 2012 that Massachusetts must recognize other states’ parallel spousal statuses for same-sex couples, such as California ... Read More

Addressing the issue of parentage in gestational surrogate births for the first time, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on May 3, 2012 ruled that District ... Read More