GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders GLADBriefs SUMMER / FALL ’18

Historic win for non- We are the history we make. protections in New Hampshire

INSIDE : Equality Zone – and a Model for the Nation Masterpiece Cakeshop and the New Supreme Court...... 3 n 1978, amid a national wave of anti- sentiment, 103 were arrested in during a police sting operation at the Boston Public Library; and the District Attorney 40 Years of Protecting I established a hotline for anonymous reporting of “suspicious activity” of gay men. There All Families...... 4 were no non-discrimination laws then protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination in public spaces (or employment or housing). GLAD was founded to fight back in the courts and to First of Its Kind Ruling Opens advocate for more just laws and policies for our communities. Up Federal Protections for GLAD seeks to create a just society free of discrimination based on and expression, Transgender People...... 7 HIV status, and . One of the ways we can do this is by working to secure the passage of non-discrimination laws, as has been done now in all six New England states. Jose Antonio Vargas to Starting in , GLAD worked hard to secure and protect passage of An Act Making Receive GLAD Spirit of it Unlawful to Discriminate on the Basis of Sexual Orientation in 1989, which made Massachusetts the second state in the country, after Wisconsin, to add protections against discrimination on Justice Award...... 9 the basis of sexual orientation to existing non-discrimination law. Over the next three decades, Annual Report & all New England states would add sexual orientation and gender identity protections to their non-discrimination laws, and GLAD is proud to have worked with local communities and partner Thank You!...... 10 organizations in that work every step of the way. Legal Update...... 16 Our deep, sustained presence in local communities across the region is central to GLAD’s winning strategy. That strategy led, this year, to the passage of a stand-alone transgender non- discrimination law in a Republican-controlled state, for the first time in our movement history. In May, the New Hampshire legislature passed HB 1319, which now explicitly protects trans- gender people across the state from discrimination in employment, housing, and public spaces. With the ’s signature, New Hampshire became the sixth and final New England state to explicitly protect transgender people from discrimination at work and in daily life. This victory has been ten years in the making. GLAD, together with New Hampshire Representative Ed Butler, introduced the first incarnation of the transgender non-discrimination bill in the legislature in 2009, where it passed the House by one vote. In those early days of continued on page 6 From the Executive Director GLAD STAFF

We are the history we make. Janson Wu, Executive Director James Barden, Over a period of two weeks in March 1978, the Boston Police entrapped and Digital Media Coordinator arrested 103 gay men in a deliberate, targeted anti-gay sex sting. Outraged Brianna Boggs, by this injustice, and responding to a wave of anti-gay sentiment across Director of Development the country, Boston’s gay community organized with new purpose. GLAD’s

Photo: InfinityPortraitDesign.com Mary Bonauto, founder, John Ward, saw the critical necessity for a legal organization to Civil Rights Project Director defend LGBTQ rights, and fight back in court. Eva Boyce, Chief Financial Officer History was made by a community coming together, speaking out, and demanding to be treated on equal terms with everyone else. Gary Buseck, Legal Director Since those revolutionary beginnings, we have made history time and again. Our work Jeremiah Collins, Legal Assistant together has changed—and continues to change—the legal landscape for LGBTQ rights, Patience Crozier, including precedent-setting victories on transgender equality, the , and the Senior Staff Attorney rights of people living with HIV. Beth Grierson, We have elevated the law’s understanding of what it means to be a family (see page 4). We have Senior Manager of Operations expanded opportunities for LGBTQ young people to be themselves, and be celebrated (see page and Administration 17). We have turned New England into an equality zone, with comprehensive non-discrimination Tessa Holtzman, protections for LGBTQ people in every state (see cover)—and we will—we must—uphold those Legal Assistant protections in Massachusetts at the ballot this November (see page 6). Rianna Johnson-Levy, We are, all of us, on the precipice of making history once again. And we have a choice to make Legal Assistant about what that history will be. Amanda Johnston, The anticipation of a shift in the Supreme Court, with the nomination of Judge Director of Public Affairs and Education to fill retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat, has only heightened an existing wave of uncertainty Kenyon King, Web Developer about the future of our rights and liberties. Bennett Klein, AIDS Law Project Director Voting rights, healthcare, reproductive rights, and Senior Attorney immigration, and the equal citizenship of LGBTQ Jennifer Levi, people, are but a few of the issues at stake Project Director (see page 3). Richard J. Yurko, President Stephanie Lowitt, These are challenging times. But we have faced Joyce Kauffman, Vice President Assistant Director of Development and attacks and challenges before. As our history David Hayter, Treasurer Donor Communications shows, we know how to fight, we know how to Darian Butcher, Clerk Carol Marton, Business Manager Leila Bailey-Stewart persist, and when we join together in common Aria Pierce, Suzanne Baumann cause and use our power, we know how to win. Major Gifts and Foundations Associate Mark Brown That spirit of revolution, resistance, and resilience Edward Byrne Chris Rainville, Events Manager out of which GLAD was born is in our DNA. We will Francisco Cabas Chloe Sanders, Development Co-op never give up—on the promise of our constitution, Andre L. Campagna Erin Semagin Damio, on the power of our collective voice and vote, or Martha Holt Castle 2 Database Manager on the goal we set out to achieve 40 years ago: Fred Csibi Henry Thomas, GLAD Answers Assistant equal justice under the law for all. Darla DeGrace Liz Doherty Bob Tumposky, IT Manager Together, we will continue to make history. Shane Dunn Caitlin Walsh, Public Affairs Assistant Benjamin Franklin Toward Justice, Joseph Garland Emmett Weiss, Legal Assistant George Hastie Savannah Wilkinson, Deborah Heller Development Co-op Chuck Latovich Allison Wright, Staff Attorney Dianne R. Phillips Janson Wu Marlene Seltzer Executive Director Lee Swislow David Wilson Masterpiece Cakeshop and The New Supreme Court

helped LGBTQ people, allowed a diminished Roe v. Wade to survive, and supported affirmative action in education, because racial and gender diversity matters and too many headwinds still push back black and brown people. But Justice Kennedy also joined devastating decisions, including decimating the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement, upholding the discriminatory Muslim ban in Trump v. Hawaii, undermining worker rights in Janus v. AFSCME, and authored Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which fuels the disproportionate power and influence of corporations. ith the 7-2 ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado on As Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund June 4, we’re now through round one of the efforts to carve argues, it is not only the staggering importance of the issues on the religious & speech exceptions into the state non-discrimination W line in confirming the next justice to sit on our highest court, but “the laws protecting LGBTQ people. Crucially, eight members of the Court very integrity of our justice system and the rule of law.” reaffirmed that while “religious and philosophical objections” are Supreme Court Justices are appointed for a lifetime tenure. Senators protected, the “general rule” is that such objections “do not allow and the public must have the opportunity to thoroughly vet a nominee’s business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to record to ensure it matches with fidelity to our Constitution’s promise deny protected persons equal access to goods and services under a of equal protection, due process, and equal justice. As we go to neutral and generally applicable public accommodations law.” print, the Republican-controlled Senate has rushed this process with In stating that rule, one that cuts against the exemptions sought in Judge Kavanagh, withholding thousands of relevant documents. This this case and others, the Court cited the iconic precedent of Newman is unacceptable. v. Piggy Park Enterprises that rejected religious and speech claims of a Numerous issues of specific concern to our LGBTQ communities South Carolina barbeque shop owner about so-called race mixing, and could easily be at the Court in the next term or terms. These issues the Hurley v. GLIB case about the Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade, which include review of the President’s newly constituted ban on open emphasized the government’s power to address targeted discrimination military service by willing and qualified transgender people, attempts against groups without violating the First or Fourteenth Amendments. to roll back or block transgender students’ rights, cases seeking to Despite the drumbeat saying “go to another baker for your cake” exclude LGBTQ people from employment protections under Title VII, as Alliance Defending Freedom, the U.S. Solicitor General and many cases seeking to carve religious-based “conscience” exceptions into amici for the baker argued, the majority opinion recognized (1) the anti-discrimination and other laws affecting LGBTQ people (and other harm to individuals turned away and (2) the corrosive community-wide protected persons), cases seeking to make our marriages second stigma that would be sure to follow. class by denying the protections available to other married people, What the Court did not decide, and which will eventually return to the denying family-building through adoption and foster care, and by reconstituted Court, is a definitive ruling on the merits of the bakery allowing objections to our marriages to serve as a basis owner’s constitutional claims. Instead, the Court ruled in the baker’s for discrimination. favor because it found that the Colorado Commission that heard and People ask us: Is marriage equality in jeopardy? A reversal of the decided his case violated his right to “neutral and respectful” consideration Obergefell decision that established marriage equality for same-sex of his claims with statements hostile to religion, and what the court said couples nationwide would be shocking and unprecedented, and may have been inconsistent treatment in the rules applied. wrong. At the same time, we are all acutely aware that this time Whatever one thinks of whether some part of the proceedings were marks a new political and civic moment in our nation’s history and a biased, and the two dissenting justices argued otherwise, we now face dramatic shift in our federal courts. None of us can take for granted 3 a new field of litigation in which those who deny services to LGBTQ the full measure of protections we have secured and powerful forces people in violation of non-discrimination law because of their personal are working mightily to unsettle even longstanding jurisprudence. religious beliefs about sex, families, and marriage may question GLAD will continue fighting against the determined minority of people government neutrality in the selection and handling of cases. In fact, who seek to reverse marriage equality and other civil rights in every the Supreme Court subsequently vacated a unanimous Washington branch of government and alongside the majority of Americans who Supreme Court ruling in Arlene’s Flowers v. Washington in favor of a stand with us. couple whose florist denied them flowers for their wedding, ordering GLAD will never give up on the courts, and we have long experience in the case be reconsidered in light of Masterpiece Cakeshop. Many navigating the minefield of difficult legal and political environments. We other cases around the country raise similar issues, including the right encourage everyone to stay fully informed, to participate in the to use religion and speech to deny employment and refuse adoption. elections at all levels, and to keep seeking common ground with others. n Justice Kennedy’s announced retirement from the Supreme Court and President Trump’s nomination of DC Court of Appeals Judge Brett To learn more about the individual rulings and statements mentioned Kavanaugh to replace him add new complexities going forward. in this article, visit www.glad.org/post/masterpiece-cakeshop-and-the- Justice Kennedy’s view of individual liberty and autonomy certainly new-supreme-court. 40 Years of Protecting All Families

Protesting a late 1980s Massachusetts policy all but banning LGBT people from being foster parents Photo: Ellen Shub

gender, genetic connection, or compelled the Governor’s Office to end the way a child was brought into discrimination against same-gender couples as the world. foster parents. Some of GLAD’s earliest family That “foster equality” victory, which came in law work directly challenged the 1990, also created a pathway for protecting reigning ideology that LGBTQ children’s relationships with their unmarried, people could not, and should same-gender parents through second-parent not, be parents—because we adoption. In 1993, three state supreme were falsely categorized as sick, court rulings, one in Vermont and two in unstable, and dangerous to Massachusetts—one of which, GLAD’s case children. In 1980, in one of the Adoption of Susan, involved parents Maureen earliest parenting victories in Brodoff and Ellen Wade who would later the nation, GLAD supported a become plaintiffs in the historic Goodridge case in which a mother Massachusetts marriage case—led the way. sought to regain custody of the A combination of legislation and further children she had with her husband court victories followed over the next fifteen and who were in the custody of years, making second parent adoption and a guardian. The Massachusetts recognition of de facto parentage accessible to Supreme Judicial Court ruled in the LGBTQ parents across all New England states. case of Bezio v. Patenaude that she As marriage equality became a reality across was entitled to resume her role as New England and then across the U.S., same- the children’s parent; that being a gender couples who marry have since gained hroughout GLAD’s 40 years of ground- lesbian did not render her per se unfit to further access to many protections that help families breaking work advancing equality her children’s welfare; and that any argument prosper and protect one another. GLAD has Tacross New England, we have focused about harm to the children must be based on fought to ensure that children born to same- on protecting our families in all the ways we parental conduct, and not merely status. gender married couples actually benefitted form them. Our clear commitment has been Over time, many more LGBTQ couples also equally from the protections of marriage. One to ensure family relationships are recognized, planned families together to raise the next illustrative victory, in Hunter v. Rose (MA, 2012), respected, and honored. In addition to generation, often through foster care and ensured that children born into legal spousal safeguarding family relationships between adoption. Another early landmark victory relationships enjoyed the same protections adults, central to that effort is also ensuring was the settlement of “foster equality” as all other children. Ongoing work to protect acknowledgement of parents and legally litigation. In 1985, Don Babets and David our 2015 Obergefell national marriage victory securing parent-child relationships. Respect for Jean of Massachusetts became foster includes ensuring that states fully and equally the status of parents and their relationship with parents—among the first openly gay foster respect the marriages of same-gender couples, 4 their children ensures respect for the whole parents in the state—to two young children. including respecting legal recognition of family and optimizes the security, love, and Soon after the children’s placement with Don parents (for example, in the 2017 case Pavan support they need to thrive. and David, published an v. Smith the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in We have come light years from the days article about “community opposition” to their response to a challenge from the state of when people were turned away from courts growing family. The Department of Children Arkansas that both married parents’ names because they could not claim a relationship and Families (then the Department of Social must be entered on a birth certificate issued to a child from birth, marriage or adoption. Services), at the direction of then-Governor when a child is born into the marriage of a Not only is each of these routes now available , promptly removed the same-gender couple). throughout New England, our most recent children from their home and, within weeks, At the same time, no child should be victories trend toward establishing respect for announced a new policy that all but banned penalized because the child’s parents don’t the actual relationship of the parent and child, LGBTQ people from becoming foster parents. marry or cannot or do not adopt. GLAD has and thus the child’s interests in maintaining GLAD and the ACLU of Massachusetts, with secured pathways for legal recognition of that relationship, rather than defining pro bono counsel, Tony Doniger, from the law unmarried same-gender parents through parentage solely based on marital status, firm of Sugarman Rogers Barshak & Cohen, landmark court rulings in Rhode Island

continued next page (Rubano v. DiCenzo, 2000) New Hampshire (In re Madelyn B. 2014), Massachusetts (Partanen v. Gallagher 2016), and Vermont One of the Happiest Days of Our Lives. (Sinnott v. Peck 2017). And the Scariest As ways of forming families evolve, it’s By Rey and Tanairi in the interest of all children that our state family laws reflect that evolution. GLAD When our daughter was Civil Rights Project Director Mary Bonauto born earlier this year, it was worked in collaboration with local Maine one of the happiest days of partners for over two years to update Maine’s our lives. But it was also one parentage laws. The Maine Parentage Act, of the scariest. which became law in 2016, broke new ground Like all parents, we’d done in creating multiple pathways to parenthood our best to make sure she and according children rights and protections would have all the support regardless of the circumstances of their birth and protection she’d need or their parents’ marital status or gender. when she arrived. Since GLAD also fought to defend the Maine we live in Massachusetts Domestic Partner Registry for both unmarried and are not married, that same-gender and different-gender couples, included signing a Voluntary and successfully advocated for expanding Acknowledgment of Parentage it so that unmarried partners have all of the (VAP) form to ensure we both same probate protections—critical in times of had full, legal relationships as disability and death—as spouses. her parents. We celebrated another huge victory Then we went into labor. And for families when Vermont adopted its from our hospital bed we were groundbreaking Parentage Act this past told that the hospital birth May. GLAD Senior Staff Attorney Patience registrar refused us access to Crozier provided technical assistance the VAP form—so that Rey would not be listed on our daughter’s birth certificate. and worked with local partners including We were scared for our family’s future. So we called GLAD. LGBTQIA Alliance Vermont to secure Senior Staff Attorney Polly Crozier answered our call for help. Polly had been working passage of the Vermont Parentage Act with us to guide us through the legal landscape as a never-married, expectant same- (VPA). The comprehensive VPA ensures gender couple. She had explained that as a result of GLAD’s win for parents like us at new and critical legal protections for all the MA Supreme Judicial Court in 2016, we had a right to access the VAP form, and children, including LGBTQ parents and she worked in advance to make sure that vital records would accept our form. their children. It enumerates the many Now, while we were in our hospital room adjusting to our first hours as parents, ways in which people can become legal Polly was fighting once again to ensure our family would have access to protections parents, whether through birth, adoption, on an equal basis to different-gender parents. And she succeeded. With GLAD’s help genetics, presumption, acknowledgment, that afternoon, we were the first same-gender couple in Massachusetts to establish adjudication, de facto status, assisted our parentage in the hospital through a VAP. reproduction, or surrogacy. It also makes Our child was born surrounded by loving family and our closest friends. Since 5 the state’s parentage law equal when it that day in the hospital when we were both able to sign the VAP form, we are comes to gender and marital status. both secured as her legal parents. She will grow up knowing both her parents will The 2017 Uniform Parentage Act (UPA) always be there to give her the love, support, and stability she needs and deserves. provided a non-binding blueprint for states to We’re fortunate to live in Massachusetts where, thanks to GLAD, the law recognizes consider when reviewing their family laws. But unmarried, non-biological parents so that families like ours are protected. The Vermont’s new law—based in part on the 2017 Massachusetts VAP form has now been updated to be fully inclusive and reflective of UPA and adapted to fit the needs of Vermont— LGBTQ families like ours, and these updated forms will be distributed to Massachusetts makes it only the second state in the country to hospitals this fall. pass these groundbreaking reforms that ensure GLAD believes that all parents—regardless of their marital status—should be able to fairness and access to the courts for all children create and secure their families. If you need information about the MA VAP form, or are and families—including LGBTQ families. encountering barriers to establishing your legal parentage, contact GLAD Answers, our Through GLAD’s work on similar bills across legal information line, at www.GLADAnswers.org. New England and our service on the national Uniform Parentage Act Enactment Committee, continued on page 6 New England: Equality Zone 40 Years Protecting All Families – and a Model for the Nation continued from page 5 continued from page 1

we are encouraging other states to follow Vermont’s lead. We’ve made steady and durable progress over the past 40 years throughout New England catching up the courts and the law with today’s families. But there are so many opportunities ahead to ensure all family relationships are respected, honored, and protected. Part of that work involves helping parents navigate what can be complex legal terrain to understand their rights, as well as finding Boston Pride: Marching with Freedom for All Massachusetts to support upholding accessible resources to empower parents transgender non-discrimination protections at the ballot this November to protect their families. For example, we’ve developed a model Known Donor Agreement organizing, we worked with a passionate including updating the state’s Department that can be a starting point for families in group of six members of New Hampshire’s of Motor Vehicles policy for gender marker Massachusetts considering using a known transgender community to testify before the changes on driver’s licenses. continued on page 18 Senate committee. The day the bill went to In 2016 New Hampshire was the only the Senate for a vote, marriage equality was New England state without any gender also on the calendar. We won the freedom to identity protections in its non-discrimination Beyond Parental Recognition marry that day. But the Senate swiftly killed statute. GLAD, together with Freedom for the transgender non-discrimination bill. All Americans, helped form Freedom New Child Welfare and State Custody GLAD continued working in New Hampshire, a bipartisan coalition dedicated Protecting families can also mean Hampshire to lay the building blocks for to building support for HB 1319. This new supporting parents and children in winning statewide gender identity non- campaign, also comprised of Transgender discrimination protections. The relationships NH, ACLU of NH, Rights & Democracy, and conflict. Through our work in Maine we built and the support we provided to the the Human Rights Campaign, garnered an and Massachusetts supporting adults community was the foundation of our strong, unprecedented groundswell of bipartisan and children in the child welfare sustained investment across the state support statewide for transgender equality. system, where LGBTQ youth are that led to smaller yet impactful victories, Thanks to the strategic, organized, and disproportionately represented, we are persistent work of transgender community working to educate child welfare systems members, who are the real champions of and to make sure transgender and LGB Vote YES on 3 in this victory, a stand-alone transgender non- youth have safe placements, vital medical Massachusetts this discrimination bill passed this year and was care, and supportive environments that November! signed in a Republican-controlled state—for enable them to thrive. the first time in our movement history, and at a Two years ago, Massachusetts enacted time when the security of our basic civil rights Transgender Family Law critical non-discrimination protections are being undermined at the federal level. GLAD’s family law work also means for transgender people in public places New Hampshire can serve as a model ensuring our laws and courts respect for the rest of the nation, as we both work 6 like hospitals, stores, parks, and the needs of transgender parents and to make non-discrimination protections restaurants. But on November 6, those transgender children. This includes accessible for more LGBTQ people across protections could be wiped away, as litigation and advocacy, but also legal the country, and to defend the hard-won education. In 2012, we published Massachusetts becomes the first state laws we have achieved. (See sidebar for in the country to vote on transgender Transgender Family Law (see glad.org/tfl), information on our critical campaign to to comprehensively address legal issues rights. GLAD is a leading member of uphold basic protections for transgender facing transgender people in the family the Freedom for All Massachusetts people at the ballot box in Massachusetts law context and provide practitioners the coalition to protect transgender this November.) tools to effectively represent transgender equality at the ballot box—and we Our work to secure and safeguard non- need you. This November, vote YES discrimination protections for everyone clients. This past year, we contributed to on 3 to uphold fairness and dignity in our communities has never been more a transgender competency training for across the Commonwealth, and visit important. It’s up to each of us to stay in the employees throughout the Massachusetts www.freedomma.org to get involved. fight and keep moving our communities and court system. our country toward justice. n First-of-its-kind Ruling Opens Up Federal Protections for Transgender People

n June, the federal court for the District of Massachusetts ruled playing field for people with medical conditions in employment and in favor of our client, a transgender woman wrongly incarcerated in accessing public accommodations and in government run facilities I in a men’s prison, and facing daily discrimination, abuse and and programs. The law both prohibits discrimination and requires that harassment as a result. The ruling allows her claim challenging “reasonable accommodations” be made to address barriers that would mistreatment by the Department of Corrections (DOC) under the otherwise bar participation and fair access. The law is an important Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) to move forward. In the first-of-its- source of protection because it recognizes that many of our society’s kind ruling in our case Doe v. MA Department of Correction, the court systems and structures function based on presumptions about skills found that interpreting the ADA to exclude transgender people raises and abilities that are not true for all people. The ADA was designed to constitutional problems. remove unnecessary barriers for people with medical conditions who The legislative history of the ADA reflects bias against transgender can participate and contribute equally save for those barriers. people and shows that legislators at the time of its passage wrongly Debate during the law’s consideration reflects that some legislators associated being transgender with socially unacceptable behaviors. wanted to exclude from its protections medical conditions then As a result of that bias, the law has been historically interpreted to associated with transgender people. The exclusionary language exclude transgender people from its protections. ultimately adopted in the law has resulted in transgender people being The court’s ruling here addresses head on the constitutional problems unable to receive reasonable accommodations, for example, being with that historical exclusion of transgender people from the ADA, able to wear an employee badge with a preferred name, or being finding that “The pairing of gender identity disorders with conduct that able to access appropriate restroom facilities. In the prison context, is criminal or viewed by society as immoral or lewd raises a serious reasonable accommodations may include being housed according to a question as to the light in which the drafters of this exclusion viewed person’s gender identity rather than assigned birth sex, or being able to transgender persons…The Court is of the view that, to the extent that order clothing and canteen items from a facility different than the one the statute may be read as excluding an entire category of people from where a person is housed. its protections because of their gender status, such reading is The ADA requires an individualized consideration of need which offers best avoided.” great promise for equal treatment of transgender people in a range of This victory follows a March 5 order granting in part our client’s social contexts. The groundbreaking June ruling from the Massachusetts motion for preliminary relief. The order instructed the DOC to take steps federal district court opens up a clear path for transgender people to to ensure our client’s privacy from male inmates and to have be included within the ADA’s important protections. correctional officers perform strip searches. Since filing this case last Importantly for our client, this ruling also means a possibility of relief fall, GLAD, together with Prisoners Legal Services and Goodwin Procter from the severe mistreatment she experiences on a daily basis, including LLP, has been seeking our client’s transfer to an appropriate DOC the possibility of transfer to the women’s facility where she should be female corrections facility. housed. Prisons are inherently dehumanizing, and transgender people This groundbreaking ruling both allows our client to proceed with who are incarcerated often experience compounded degradation her claim to be transferred to the women’s prison and opens up an because of who they are. Until we as a society commit to a more important source of federal protection to transgender people in many humane alternative to incarceration, GLAD will advocate for fairer different contexts. treatment of LGBTQ people within prisons, just as we advocate for Congress passed the ADA in 1990 as part of an effort to create a level dignity and respect for LGBTQ people everywhere. n

The Doe v. MA Department of Correction legal team following a hearing at the federal court for the District of Massachusetts: 7 Ashley Drake (Goodwin Procter LLP), Kate Piper (Prisoners Legal Services), Louis Lobel (Goodwin Procter LLP), Bennett Klein and Jennifer Levi (GLAD), Lizz Matos (Prisoners Legal Services), Anthony Downs (Goodwin Procter LLP) Identity Matters

A project of GLAD, Ropes & Gray LLP and American. While I have always identified as my original birth certificate is not straight MTPC, the Pop-Up Transgender ID Project Native American, it is only through my recent forward as an adoptee. supports transgender people across New reunion with my birth family that I have been To become a Creek citizen, I must provide England in acquiring accurate identity able to explore my particular Creek heritage. my original birth certificate that lists my birth documentation. Since November 2016, we’ve Just as my gender identity does not fit father’s name. Adoptees are the only U.S. assisted over 450 people throughout New neatly into a binary, my racial identity is citizens who aren’t legally entitled access to England. Steph Gauchel from Massachusetts not monoracial and I don’t feel comfortable their original birth certificate in every state, shares their story working with one of the identifying as either white or as a person of though it is possible for adoptees to petition many dedicated attorneys of Ropes & Gray to color. Connecting with my birth father has for access through the court. When I started update their identity documents. helped me further explore these feelings working with an attorney at Ropes & Gray and has also allowed the possibility of to update my ID documents, I mentioned few months after the November 2016 my becoming a Creek citizen. While tribal my fears that legally changing my name election, I reached out to the Pop-Up citizenship is in and of itself a complicated and gender marker on identity documents ATransgender ID Project for help updating product of colonialism and structural might complicate getting my original birth my name and gender marker on identity oppression, similar to my legal document certificate. She understood my apprehension documents including my passport and updates around gender, obtaining citizenship and concern, as well as the importance of driver’s license. would help me feel more grounded in and my birth certificate in understanding my own Like so many in our communities, I was entitled to my Native identity. Sadly, obtaining identity, and went above and beyond her concerned about the impact a Trump role as a legal advisor and resource, administration would have on policies to provide me the emotional support and resources that protect and support I needed. LGBTQ people. GLAD created the Pop-Up We’re still going through the court Transgender ID Project in response to this process to gain access to my birth same concern about the future of federal certificate, but Ropes & Gray continues policies, and thanks to their partnership to do the “heavy lifting” regarding my with MTPC and Ropes & Gray, I’ve been Photo: InfinityPortraitDesign.com case. In a sense both this technical able to move forward with ensuring my process and the personal process of documents best reflect my genderqueer/ developing and understanding my trans identity. identity are linked, and it’s beyond Unique to my case is the need to comforting to know that the teams at access my original birth certificate. I am Steph Gauchel (right) at the GLAD Summer Party with Development Ropes & Gray, as well as GLAD, are on adopted and my biological father is Native Director Brianna Boggs (center) and Jess Gauchel my side. n

40 Years: Protest & Pride

8 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist and Immigration Rights Advocate Jose Antonio Vargas to Receive GLAD’s 2018 Spirit of Justice Award

Three years after winning GLAD is proud to announce a Pulitzer Prize as part of the Jose Antonio Vargas as the recipient Washington Post team covering of our 2018 Spirit of Justice Award. the 2008 Virginia Tech shootings, Vargas, an award-winning Vargas famously came out as an journalist, filmmaker and a leading undocumented immigrant in a voice for the human rights of groundbreaking 2011 immigrants, is the founder and Times essay, effectively putting CEO of Define American, a non-profit his career and resident status organization fighting injustice and on the line. He wrote, “I’m done anti-immigrant hate through the power running. I’m exhausted. I don’t of storytelling. want that life anymore.” “We’re thrilled to honor Jose with Vargas went on to produce this much-deserved award, especially and direct two documentaries, at a time when pulling together as “Documented” about his own one justice movement is so critical,” experience, and “White People,” says Janson Wu, Executive Director an examination of white privilege of GLAD. “Immigrant rights are in the Americas. His memoir, LGBTQ rights, and LGBTQ rights are Dear America: Notes of an immigrant rights. The theme running Undocumented Citizen, will be through both Jose’s activism and his published by HarperCollins in story-telling is that justice for all of fall 2018. He has testified before us is tightly entwined with justice for Congress on immigration reform, each of us—whether we are LGBTQ, and serves on the advisory board undocumented, a person of color, or of TheDream.US, a scholarship all three.” fund for undocumented Vargas has written and spoken immigrant students. n about his experiences of being gay, undocumented, and a person of GLAD’s 19th annual Spirit of Justice Award dinner is co-chaired by Liz color, saying “All I know, is we are stronger when we’re together. We Doherty and Mario Nimock, and will take place Friday, October 12, are stronger when we address not just how these issues intersect, but at the Boston Copley Marriot. For more information and to purchase how we as people are multidimensional.” tickets, visit www.glad.org/events/2018soj.

9 2018

Rise Up. Resist. Repeat. Thank You

GLAD thrives due to the support of volunteers, donors and in-kind contributors. We extend our thanks to the following individuals and organizations who worked with us in the past year toward achieving a more just world. We apologize if we have omitted anyone.

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GLAD’s financial health is good. We have 8.5 months of unrestricted reserves (i.e. net assets) as of March 31, 2018, including board designated net assets (BDNA) – funds that can only be spent with board approval. There is minimal debt, and sufficient cash and short-term investments to meet our obligations. During fiscal year 2018, we launched the One Justice Fund campaign to grow our legal resources to respond to increased attacks on LGBTQ rights from the federal administration and an emboldened conservative opposition. The funds will allow GLAD to add to its legal team, support the GLAD Answers legal information and referral service, and build fundraising capacity to sustain this growth going forward. The funds will be spent between fiscal year 2019 and 2021. We ended fiscal year 2018 with an overall surplus or increase in net assets of $1.3m. While that is a great result, let’s look at the components (see table below) and some highlights:

Operating Board Total Temporarily Total Fund Designated Unrestricted Restricted

Net Assets: March 31, 2017 $ 944,394 $ 949,121 $ 1,893,515 $ 412,856 $ 2,306,371

FY18: Change in Net Assets 551,968 (19,654) 532,314 781,136 1,313,450

FY18: Board Approved Transfer (330,533) 330,533 – – –

Net Assets: March 31, 2018 $ 1,165,829 $ 1,260,000 $ 2,425,829 $ 1,193,992 $ 3,619,821

• The unrestricted fund was projected to decrease by $253k but instead increased by $532k. Factors that contributed to this positive swing of $785k include: a larger than expected award of attorney fees, additional development income, cost savings primarily due to unfilled positions, and other net changes in income and expenses. The board voted to transfer $330k from GLAD’s operating fund to BDNA, from which it can authorize expenditures for strategic initiatives. • Temporarily restricted funds are cash gifts and pledges restricted by the donor for a specific purpose or timeframe. This fund increased by $781k, which means new restricted gifts in FY18 exceeded ‘releases’ (current year spending of donor restricted funds). 85% of the increase is attributable to the unconditional pledges and collections for the One Justice Fund.

Other highlights and trends: • During fiscal year 2018, GLAD received donated legal services of $7,457,112. These were unusually high, given the new challenges from the federal administration and a reinvigorated conservative opposition. Please refer to the audit footnotes available at www.glad.org/financial- information for more details. • At March 31, 2018, the market value of GLAD’s investment portfolio was $2.5m. The Board’s Finance and Audit Committee monitors investment results, risk tolerance and asset mix in accordance with our cash and investment policy.

14 We remain committed to excellence and will carefully monitor our financial results with an eye to the future. Thank you for investing in GLAD. n

Eva N. Boyce Chief Financial Officer July 2018 Summarized Financial Data for Annual Report

Statement of Activities* For the 12 month period ended March 31, 2018 FY18 Expenses including In-Kind Legal Support and Revenue Contributions & Grants $ 3,155,053 9,486,613 FY18 Special events revenue, net 937,415 Fees & program revenue 591,138 FY17 Donated Services (In-kind Legal Fees) 7,457,112 Total Support & Revenue 12,140,718 793,138 Expenses 622,804 Transgender Rights Project 7,185,758 Civil Rights Project 1,945,323 Legal Programs Public Affairs & Fundraising & AIDS Law Project 355,532 Education Administration Public Affairs & Education 622,804 Development & Fundraising 429,926 General & Administrative 363,212 Total Expenses 10,902,555 Cost Categories: FY18 Personnel 21% Change in Net Assets from Operations 1,238,163 Non Personnel 11% Other Revenue (Expenses) Investment income, gains & losses 24,762 Donated Equipment 50,525 75,287 Total Change in Net Assets $ 1,313,450 ** Net Assets, beginning of year 2,306,371 Net Assets, end of year $ 3,619,821

Statement of Financial Position* In-Kind Legal Fees 68% March 31, 2018 FY18

Assets Cash & cash equivalents $ 779,048 Income Mix: FY18 Accounts receivable & pledges 456,383 Contributions & Grants 26% Investments 2,499,480 Equipment, deposits & prepaid expenses 256,080 Total Assets $ 3,990,991 Liabilities 15 Accounts payable & accrued expenses $ 371,170 Deferred rent – Special events Total Liabilities 371,170 revenue, net 8% Net Assets Operating 1,165,819 Fees & program Board Designated 1,260,000 revenue Temporarily Restricted 1,193,992 Donated Services Total Net Assets 3,619,821 ** (including Legal Fees) 61%

Total Liabilities & Net Assets $ 3,990,991 * Full audit available at www.glad.org/financial-information/ ** See chart on page 14 Legal Update

Doe v. Trump Pelletier v. Executive Office of Health and Human Services, et al., (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia) (Massachusetts Superior Court) Fighting to shut down the transgender military ban for good GLAD and Health Law Advocates have favorably resolved a case in On August 6, Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied Suffolk Superior Court challenging a denial of medically necessary the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss Doe v. Trump, one of facial feminization surgery for a transgender woman by MassHealth, two cases in which GLAD and NCLR are challenging the Trump-Pence the state agency. Following a diagnosis of severe gender transgender military ban. Also on August 6, Judge Kollar-Kotelly dysphoria, our client’s doctors prescribed a course of medical treatment denied the administration’s request to dissolve the nationwide to allow her to live in her affirmed gender, including facial feminization preliminary injunction that has blocked implementation of the ban surgery. Our client’s insurer, MassHealth, refused to provide coverage since October, 2017. for the surgery, claiming that facial feminization is categorically That ruling was followed on August 24 with an opinion ordering the excluded in every instance. The agreement establishes for the first administration to produce documents it has been withholding related time that MassHealth will no longer maintain a categorical exclusion to the development of the so-called Mattis Plan, the implementation of coverage for facial feminization surgery for transgender people, plan for the ban released on March 23, 2018. Judge Kollar-Kotelly also but will instead conduct a case-by-case determination—based on denied both parties’ motions for full resolution of the case. In her presented medical evidence and physician assessments—of whether August 24 ruling, Judge Kollar-Kotelly said the government has improperly facial feminization surgery is medically necessary to treat a particular refused to produce documents related to its decision to reverse individual’s gender dysphoria. existing policy and exclude transgender people from military service. GLAD and NCLR argue on behalf of our plaintiffs, who include both Commonwealth v. A Juvenile “LN” active duty transgender servicemembers and individuals intending (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) to enlist, that the administration is attempting to “blinker reality” by recasting the Mattis Plan as something other than what it plainly is: GLAD, along with the ACLU of Massachusetts, filed an amicus brief at a blueprint to implement the unjustified and categorical exclusion the Supreme Judicial Court in this case, arguing that the Massachusetts of transgender people from military service ordered by President statutory rape law should not be read to apply to consensual activity Trump. Key documents we have been able to obtain so far from the between two youth under the age of 16. We argued that criminalizing government literally show a straight line between Trump’s tweets last such conduct hinders young people’s healthy development of their July and the implementation plan released on March 23. sexuality, particularly LGBTQ youth who already face societal stigma The administration has appealed the denials of their motions to related to their and behavior. dissolve the preliminary injunctions blocking the ban to the Ninth In ruling on April 25, 2018, the court technically avoided this central Circuit Court of Appeals (in Karnoski v. Trump, brought by Lambda question, finding that it was not before the court because the law was Legal and OutServ-SLDN) and to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals properly applied because the jury was warranted in finding that there in Doe v. Trump. On July 3, GLAD coordinated the development of was an aggressor and a victim on the facts of this specific case and nine amicus briefs submitted to the Ninth Circuit, with a breadth of not an incident of youthful, consensual sexual experimentation. At the voices weighing in on the ban’s harms including the NAACP Legal same time, the court left for another day and other facts: (1) whether Defense Fund, the American Medical Association, military officers, enforcement of the statutory rape law implicates a minor’s right of constitutional law scholars, attorneys general and transgender privacy; (2) the possibility of arbitrary enforcement when each youth civil and legal rights organizations. District court rulings on the “could be both a victim and an offender in a statutory rape case”; and government’s motions to dissolve the preliminary injunctions in GLAD (3) whether there could be a claim of improper selective prosecution and NCLR’s second case, Stockman v. Trump, and in the ACLU’s case where two youth are “similarly situated” (presumably both consenting) 16 Stone v. Trump, are pending. and only one is charged with the crime. The Chief Justice agreed with the result on the specific facts of this Doe v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company case, but he would require that, where two youth under 16 participate (U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts) in sexual intercourse, proof of simply the act of intercourse is not GLAD has filed a motion for summary judgment in federal court in our enough to prosecute. There must also be a finding of abuse by one of case challenging Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company’s policy of the participants as well. The Chief Justice also stated his belief that the denying long-term care insurance to gay men who take Pre-Exposure majority opinion agreed with him with its determination to distinguish Prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication prescribed to HIV-negative people to between a “perpetrator” and a “victim,” effectively requiring something prevent the transmission of HIV. This is the first lawsuit in the country akin to abuse. As a result, the case should send a strong message to challenging discrimination against a person on PrEP. prosecutors that consensual sexual conduct by two youth under 16 is not a crime under Massachusetts law. Rivera v. Springfield Rescue Mission key priorities designed to end discriminatory practices against LGBTQ (Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination) prisoners and to keep kids out of the justice system including: In June of 2018, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination • Requiring transgender prisoners to be treated in accordance with their (MCAD) found that there was probable cause that discrimination had gender identity, including being addressed in a manner consistent with occurred when our client, Lynn Rivera, was denied access to clothing their gender identity, having access to commissary items, clothing, at the Give-Away Center operated by Springfield Rescue Mission. programming, and other materials or property consistent with their GLAD filed the MCAD complaint on Lynn’s behalf in January 2017, gender identity, being searched by someone with the same gender asserting discrimination by the Springfield Rescue Mission based on identity, and housed in a correctional facility with prisoners with the Lynn‘s gender identity, sex, and race in violation of Massachusetts same gender identity; Public Accommodation Laws. In the fall of 2016, Lynn, who is of Puerto • Preventing prisoners from being confined to restrictive housing Rican descent and identifies as transgender, tried to shop at the Give- because they are LGBTQ or perceived to be; Away Center, a distribution center in Springfield open to the public that • Excluding children under 12 years old from entering the juvenile provides items like clothing and toiletries to those in need. Because justice system; Lynn exclusively wears men’s clothing, Lynn intended to shop only for • Expungement, or removal, of juvenile records of offenses charged men’s clothing items at the Give-Away Center. They were told while before the age of 21. shopping for men’s clothing that they could not take any clothing from the men’s section. Conciliation between the parties was unsuccessful While this bill is a crucial step toward reforming a system that and the case will now proceed to discovery for the next 6 months. disproportionately harms LGBTQ youth and adults, particularly LGBTQ people of color, it does not address other ineffectual and harmful Connecticut and Massachusetts Take the Lead in Protecting policies including long term solitary confinement practices. GLAD Transgender People Who Are Incarcerated and our coalition partners will continue advocating for fairer and less inhumane policies within the correction system. Connecticut Respecting Identity After Death – Rhode Island On May 3, Connecticut Governor Malloy signed into law SB13, An Act Concerning Fair Treatment of Incarcerated Persons, which includes some We all deserve to be remembered as we lived, and in early July Rhode of the strongest protections in the country for transgender people who Island’s governor signed groundbreaking legislation ensuring that are incarcerated. transgender Rhode Islanders’ identities will be respected after death. The “Respect in Death” law sets clear procedures for those recording death Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform in Massachusetts certificates to accurately reflect the individual’s gender identity. GLAD GLAD has been working in coalition to advance legislative action for submitted written testimony in support of the bill, provided legal expertise criminal justice reform. In May, Governor Charlie Baker signed into to help draft the bill’s language, and worked with partners at TGI Network law a major criminal justice reform bill that includes several of GLAD’s RI, LGBTQ Action RI and the Rhode Island ACLU to secure passage.

Creating Safe, Affirming Spaces for LGBTQ Youth Across New England

Ending the Discredited and Dangerous Practice of Supporting Transgender Youth 17 A crucial focus of GLAD’s family law work is ensuring that In June, New Hampshire Governor signed into law transgender youth receive the legal support they need and deserve a conversion therapy ban, ending the discredited and dangerous while also providing families encouragement and resources to practice on LGBTQ youth across the state. GLAD worked with the better understand and support their youth. ACLU of New Hampshire, NCLR, HRC and other local advocates to GLAD is currently working with a 16-year-old transgender youth in encourage passage of this legislation. Massachusetts to help her understand her rights and move forward New Hampshire joins thirteen other states, including Vermont, with her transition. She came out as transgender earlier this year Connecticut, and Rhode Island, as well as Washington, DC, in and is surrounded at school by teachers and fellow students who banning conversion therapy. GLAD is committed to making New affirm and support her. Some in her family, however, are struggling England a conversion therapy-free zone, and continues to work with to accept and support her transition. local partners to advance legislation banning the unethical practice When she reached out to GLAD to understand her legal rights and on LGBTQ youth in Massachusetts and Maine. the options available to her to move forward medically, one of the continued on page 18 Legal Update continued from page 17

resources we provided was the Caregiver Authorization Affidavit, a all Community Colleges in Massachusetts use students’ preferred legal resource that helps youth who are living with an adult other names when possible. GLAD learned that the Brockton Campus of than a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian. The Affidavit allows Massasoit Community College was not implementing this system- another adult to make decisions related to education and healthcare. wide policy when a transgender student seeking to enroll at the The decision-making is done in concurrence with a parent, legal institution contacted us after being told he could not use his chosen guardian, or legal custodian, and does not take away parental rights. name on non-official school records. Due to our intervention on Her school advisor has signed on as her Caregiver, working behalf of the transgender student, Massasoit Community College alongside her parents in the decision-making around transition- has now published the system-wide policy on its website and will related healthcare. With this resource in place, she has begun include the policy in the 2018-2019 student handbook. Importantly, moving forward in her transition, a huge step toward becoming the in addition, Massasoit also committed to train staff on the system- person she knows herself to be. wide policy and to provide transgender cultural competency trainings to faculty and staff. Developing Inclusive School Policies for All Youth Maine Massachusetts On June 5, 2018, the Kittery School Committee unanimously passed Framingham Public Schools a policy protecting transgender and gender expansive students The Framingham Public Schools Committee adopted a ground- in the district—a critical step forward for making schools safe and breaking school policy this spring designed to ensure that affirming for all youth. transgender students are fully included in athletics, a key aspect of The Kittery Policy provides clear guidelines for respecting the school community life. GLAD began working with the school district privacy of transgender and gender non-conforming students, using to develop an inclusive and affirming policy after we learned that a expressed names and pronouns when requested in writing, and high school athlete experienced discrimination on his team because ensuring inclusive academic and extracurricular programs so all of his gender identity. Creating an atmosphere where all students, enjoy equal access to educational opportunities. It also recognizes including transgender students, are welcomed results in a positive schools’ obligation to create safe and inclusive learning environments learning environment for everyone, and a key component of this by supporting a student’s gender identity while at school. policy is education for both staff and students, particularly coaches Kittery joins Portland and South Portland, among others, in passing and team leaders. GLAD is continuing to work to ensure that Framingham transgender and gender expansive school policies in Maine. GLAD High School fully implements the new policy through regular and encourages other school districts to follow their lead and ensure that ongoing training for all coaches, captains and student athletes. school policies exist to clearly translate to all school constituencies the requirement of Maine law, which prohibits schools from Massasoit Community College discriminating based on sexual orientation—which includes In 2016, the Massachusetts Community College system adopted gender identity and expression—in any academic, extracurricular, a system-wide policy that requires, among other things, that athletic, research, or any other program or activity. n

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donor, to help provide clarity and protections But as our clients Rey and Tanairi experienced GLAD’s family law work is broad and deep, for everyone involved. firsthand (see page 5), LGBTQ families and is critical to advancing full LGBTQ equality. We’re also working hard to make sure have still faced resistance because the We will continue fighting to ensure all families unmarried, same-gender couples also have VAP form was outdated. Just this summer, are respected, honored, and protected, no access to a Voluntary Acknowledgement of based on GLAD’s advocacy, Massachusetts matter how they are formed. n Parentage (VAP) form, a simple and affordable finally updated its parentage forms to be way that unmarried different-sex couples gender neutral, making this parentage Visit www.glad.org/families for links to forms have traditionally been able to establish legal process accessible to all families in the and resources referenced in this article parentage immediately upon birth. Commonwealth. Welcome New Staff and Board

Welcome New Staff Martha Holt Castle Martha currently serves as Counsel at Raytheon in Waltham, where she provides legal support to the environmental Jeremiah Collins, Legal Assistant health and safety program, as well as assistance in real estate Jeremiah joined GLAD in June 2018 after graduating from MIT with an transactions and risk management. Previously, she was Assistant MS in Nuclear Science in Engineering, where his thesis research focused District Attorney of Middlesex County and later an Associate at on developing technological solutions for the direct verification of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP in Providence. Martha was Chair nuclear weapons in arms reduction treaties. Jeremiah also holds a BS of the LGBTQ Committee of the Rhode Island Bar Association in 2007, in Chemical Engineering from MIT. Jeremiah hopes to pursue a career and a member of the Rhode Island Lawyers for Equality and Diversity in public interest law, and is excited to begin that journey at GLAD. advocating for LGBTQ equality. She later went on to serve as Chair and Board Member of Marriage Equality Rhode Island (MERI), and Henry Thomas, GLAD Answers Program Assistant through her leadership, the grass roots organization was instrumental Henry joined GLAD’s staff in 2018 after a year volunteering with in the passage of statewide marriage equality in 2013. GLAD Answers, providing resources and referrals. He has a degree in Women’s and with a minor in History from Clark Darla Degrace Most recently joining Reebok as a Senior Recruiter University, where he was actively involved in advocating for in June 2018, Darla has spent her 17-year career immersed in the transgender-inclusive programming and policies on campus. After education sector helping organizations attract and retain diverse graduating, Henry worked for a small business in southern Maine talent. In response to identifying diversity recruitment and retention before relocating to the Boston area to pursue nonprofit and inadequacies in education, she recently launched DeGrace Group, campaign work. a diversity and inclusion consulting firm. Prior to launching DeGrace Group, Darla served as Director of National Diversity Recruitment Caitlin Walsh, Public Affairs Assistant and Strategic Partnerships at City Year National Educational Non- Before joining GLAD in February 2018, Caitlin worked at a local medical Profit. She serves as the President and CEO of the National Black supply company where she served as a customer service representative, MBA Association-Boston Chapter, and was recently appointed helping customers get the durable medical equipment they needed. Commissioner on Governor Charlie Baker’s Black Advisory She also volunteered at The John F. Kennedy Family Service Center in Commission. As a first generation college student, Darla grew up in Charlestown, assisting with newsletters, website redesign and social Cambridge and went on to earn an undergraduate degree in Business media outreach. Caitlin has a BA in English and has completed the Administration from Emmanuel College and later earned a Master of Successful Grant Writing from A to Z course at UMass Boston. Science in Communications Management from Simmons College. Emmett Weiss, Legal Assistant Liz Doherty Liz is currently Senior Director & Associate General Counsel Emmett joined GLAD in 2018, after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from at Akamai Technologies, Inc. in Cambridge, the global leader in content Vassar College with a BA in Science, Technology, and Society and a delivery network (CDN) services. Liz was a founding leader of Akamai’s minor in Chinese. Emmett studied Mandarin and Chinese culture at first employee resource group for LGBTQ employees and allies, Qingdao University in Qingdao, China. At Vassar, Emmett established out@akamai, and currently sits on the company’s global Diversity a Transgender Health Clinic, and a clothing exchange for students with & Inclusion Executive Steering Committee. In addition to serving as fewer economic means. Emmett recently presented on LGBTQ+ inclusion co-chair of GLAD’s Spirit of Justice Dinner in 2017 and 2018, Liz has in healthcare at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He has also interned for served as a Co-Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ the Election Law Enforcement Commission in New Jersey Youth. Liz is a graduate of Tufts University, received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, Welcome New Board and began her legal career at Bingham McCutchen LLP (now Morgan, 19 Lewis & Bockius LLP). Suzanne Baumann Suzanne is a counselor, educator, and consultant to youth, families, and schools, with a specialization in LGBTQA+ Lee Swislow Since Lee left her role as executive director of GLAD young people and families. Her work in schools employs a diversity in 2014, she has been working as an interim CEO for non-profits in and inclusion approach to creating and implementing robust wellness transition, where she draws on her expertise in strategic planning, programs. Suzanne has spoken at over fifty schools and numerous financial management, organizational development and program education conferences, including the National Conference on Girls development. Previously she served for five years as Vice President Education and the Independent School Gender Project. In addition at JRI Health, providing a variety of services to people living with to maintaining a private practice in Cambridge, she is a wellness HIV/AIDS as well as LGBTQ youth. Lee is thrilled to return to GLAD, consultant to Boston University Academy. She is a past teaching where she led the organization as executive director for nine years. fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a graduate of She is proud of the progress GLAD has made in securing rights for . the LGBTQ community and people living with HIV/AIDS, and knows how much work is yet to be done. POSTAGE INFO

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