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GLAD in Rhode Island
Hope Through Equal Justice
- 2006 - GLAD wins the right of Rhode Island same-sex couples to marry in Massachusetts.
- 2005 - GLAD helps win a settlement on behalf of a retired teacher, a resident of Massachusetts, who sought spousal health insurance coverage for her new spouse under the governing collective bargaining agreement.
- 2004 - GLAD files a suit challenging a 1913 law being used unfairly to prevent out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts.
- 2004 - GLAD works with the Campaign for Marriage Equality to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage, providing draft legislation, expert testimony, and support in repeated legislative hearings.
- 2003 - GLAD drafts legislation to give partners standing to sue for the wrongful death of their loved ones and to give death benefits to partners of emergency workers killed in the line of duty.
- 2001 - GLAD successfully works with transgender activists and the Rhode Island Alliance to add transgender protection to the state's non-discrimination law.
- 2001 - GLAD negotiates on behalf of a middle-school teacher to allow him to discuss his sexual orientation in the classroom.
- 2000 - GLAD wins de facto parent rights for non-biological parents.
- 1999-2000 - GLAD makes it possible for South Kingston High School students to establish a GSA, working with students and administrators.
- 1999 - GLAD wins an agreement vindicating a Providence
student arrested and expelled from school after false accusations by
tormenting
peers.
- 1998 - GLAD and the Rhode Island Alliance combat anti-gay police enforcement activities and harrassment in Providence, particularly Blackstone Park, by suing to obtain public records of police arrests.
- 1980 - GLAD wins the right of Aaron Fricke to attend the Cumberland High School prom with his boyfriend.
- 1978 - GLAD is founded by attorney John Ward, originally from Rhode Island.
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