Taking Marriage Over the Finish Line GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary L. Bonauto argued before the U.S. Supreme Court April 28, 2015 on behalf of same-sex ... Read More

GLAD represents Rikki in her appeal to MassHealth after they denied her request for coverage of transition-related care.  We were awaiting the outcome of an ... Read More

Update, September 2014: Through proactive discussions and careful deliberation amongst our legal representatives, we have jointly reached an agreement, the terms of which are confidential, that ... Read More

Update November 26, 2014: John “Longjones” Abdallah Wambere received a letter from the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services informing him that his application for asylum has been fully approved. September 11, 2014: John ... Read More

GLAD joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLUM), the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Massachusetts Fair Wage Campaign (MFWC) on an amicus ... Read More

GLAD submitted an amicus letter to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court addressing the admissibility of explicit sexual photographs in a suit brought by a man ... Read More

GLAD submitted an amicus brief along with the ACLU in a case in which the state sought to transfer a transgender girl from a youth juvenile ... Read More

Update October 6, 2014: The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down Utah’s marriage ban for same-sex couples, ... Read More

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