GLAD in Connecticut

Equal Justice in the Constitution State

• 2007 GLAD argues for marriage equality before the Connecticut Supreme Court.

• 2004 GLAD drafts legislation to include transgender people under Connecticut's hate crimes protections and works with community leaders to pass the measure.

• 2003 GLAD helps secure health insurance benefits for the same-sex partners of teachers and school administrators in Manchester.

• 2002-2003 GLAD wins a ruling that the Boy Scouts' anti-gay policy prohibits them from receiving money through the CT state employees' charitable campaign.

• 2001-2003 GLAD helps draft CT legislation to protect our families, and testifies in the legislature about the importance of legal protections for same-sex couples and their children.

• 2002 GLAD wins equal access to the family membership rate for LGBT families at the West Hartford town pool.

• 2000 GLAD wins a landmark ruling from the State Human Rights Commission that Connecticut's non-discrimination laws protect transgender people.
  
  
• 1998-2000 GLAD helps secure the right of same-sex co-parents to jointly adopt their children.