As a result of the settlement of a GLAD case against the Massachusetts State Police, a General Order was issued that “officers should not order ... Read More

By 2001, thanks to new treatments and therapies, people were living with HIV. But as people with HIV lived longer, they began to face other ... Read More

GLAD won a favorable settlement in a case filed at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) against a central Massachusetts moving company that refused to ... Read More

GLAD, with co-counsel Stephen Rosenfeld and Mala Rafik, won the restoration of disability insurance benefits when an insurer wrongfully terminated coverage for a client with ... Read More

In the first legal ruling of its kind in the country, GLAD prevailed in an action to cover the cost of a life-saving liver transplant ... Read More

The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that a lesbian co-parent could bring a claim in Family Court to resolve issues of visitation rights with the ... Read More

In a precedent-setting decision with major implications for the business community, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit confirmed that sex discrimination ... Read More

In response to an assault against a lesbian student by a number of her peers at a Western Massachusetts high school, GLAD secured the school’s ... Read More

GLAD helped win second-parent adoption in Connecticut, through work in the courts and assistance to activists drafting legislation.  In April 1998, GLAD filed an amicus ... Read More

GLAD obtained clarification from the Board of Registration of Cosmetology that an individual completing a cosmetology program does not fail the statutory requirement to be ... Read More