GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders

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A crowd at the Boston Women’s March, January 21, 2017

Every One of Us Can Do Something INSIDE y husband Adam’s great-grandfather about our country’s future, and about the owned a chocolate factory in most vulnerable people among us. Yet, the M Germany in the early 20th century. scope and scale of what lies ahead can feel Landmark Syringe Access Case He traveled frequently, and gained a overwhelming. How much activism is enough? Before MA SJC...... 3 sophisticated perspective on what was How much should we give? What can we Working to Ban Conversion Therapy happening in his own country. He came to possibly do that is useful? Across New England...... 5 believe that it wasn’t normal and that it was It is easy—and understandable—to feel not safe for him, his wife and his child, who overwhelmed right now. But we do have Transgender Students and the were Jewish. They escaped to Argentina, power, and we’re obliged to resist. We can Right to Education...... 6 where Adam’s grandmother and mother grew rest and restore when we need to—but we Who is a Parent? Catching the Law up. Most of the rest of their family did not cannot retreat. To use another favorite Up with Families...... 7 survive World War II. quote of Adam’s, this time by Rabbi Tarfon: Adam’s family history has always made Thank You...... 8 him feel responsible to have an awareness of It is not your responsibility to finish the work injustice, prejudice, and violence in the world. of perfecting the world, but you are not free to Docket Update...... 14 It has spurred him to humanitarian action desist from it either. as a doctor. One of his favorite quotes, by Dostoevsky, is engraved in the entry hall of While no one can do everything, everyone the International Red Cross and Red Crescent must do something. What is your “something? Museum in Geneva: It helps to look at the tools we have at hand: elections; courts and the law; direct action; Everyone is responsible to everyone communication; and philanthropy. for everything. Elections matter, and there are elections in our immediate future—mid-term congressional I’ve thought about this quote a lot post-election, elections, state level elections, and local when people of good faith are concerned elections—that will make a difference in our

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Janson Wu, Executive Director James Barden, Public Affairs Assistant Jason Bisson, Development Co-op Brianna Boggs, Director of Development Mary Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director Eva Boyce, Chief Financial Officer Gary Buseck, Legal Director Patience Crozier, Senior Staff Attorney Beth Grierson, Senior Manager of Operations and Administration Amanda Johnston, Director of Public Affairs and Education Colin Kegler with the GLAD contingent at the Boston Women’s March, January 21, 2017 Kenyon King, Web Developer Bennett Klein, Senior Attorney and AIDS Law Project Director lives. Making our voices heard by voting and communicating with our elected officials is key to our democracy. There are ballot questions that will demand our attention, such as the attempt Erica Larocque, Events Manager to repeal the hard-won Massachusetts transgender public accommodations bill in 2018. Jennifer Levi, Courts have tremendous power to protect us and advance our rights, especially when Transgender Rights Project Director legislatures are failing. Congress may be unlikely to pass affirmative LGBTQ protections, but Stephanie Lowitt, we can continue to make progress in federal court—and in many state courts. Who sits on our Assistant Director of Development courts matters, and we cannot stand by silently as they are packed with judges who do not Carol Marton, Business Manager interpret our laws and our Constitution to extend equal justice for all. Elaine McGrath, Operations Assistant There is a direct action through line from the suffragists chaining themselves to the White Aria Pierce, Development Assistant House fence, to Selma, ACT UP, and Black Lives Matter. Direct action can show those targeted Erin Semagin Damio, they are not alone, as well as push our allies to do the right thing when there are competing forces. Database Manager None of these tools are effective without communication and dialogue. It is only when we do Rachael Smith, Legal Assistant the hard work of having face-to-face, nonjudgmental, empathetic conversations with reasonable people who disagree, that we help perfect our society. Marisa Thomassie, Development Co-op Finally, philanthropy is the fuel that allows non-profit organizations like GLAD to run at full speed. Adam and I recently reached our goal of giving 10% of our income to organizations Bob Tumposky, IT Manager whose missions and work we support, inspired by the Jewish concept of tithing. It wasn’t easy, Michelle Weiner, Legal Assistant it took some time, and it was a priority. These times call on all of us to determine what we are Alex Weinstein, Legal Assistant 2 able to give to support the many organizations on the front lines in the fight ahead. Daniel Weiss, We can’t do everything, but every one of us can do something. This is the way we take care Public Information Manager of each other, and guard our future. Choose your something. Allison Wright, Staff Attorney

Towards Justice,

Janson Wu

Photo: InfinityPortraitDesign.com Executive Director Landmark Syringe Access Case Goes Before the MA SJC

lean needles save lives, but the town on an individual or organization providing the public at risk. It is well documented that of Barnstable, MA wants to stop their free access to clean needles,” says Klein. syringe distribution programs are effective Cdistribution. This is what Ben Klein, “The town of Barnstable’s recalcitrance in interventions that help lower transmission GLAD’s AIDS Law Project Director, will argue the face of HIV, spiking Hepatitis C rates, rates of HIV and Hepatitis C. Since the February 9 before the Massachusetts Supreme and an unprecedented opioid crisis—not to establishment of needle access programs in Judicial Court in a landmark syringe access mention the law—is stunning.” Massachusetts, the prevalence of HIV among case. GLAD is representing the AIDS Support At issue is the interpretation of a 2006 law residents who inject drugs has dropped by Group of Cape Cod (ASGCC), which is fighting passed by the Massachusetts legislature, in 92 percent. to keep its completely legal syringe access which it lifted all previous restrictions on the Medical and public health organizations program open and operating in the face of the distribution of syringes in the Commonwealth. have filed a powerful friend-of-the-court town’s opposition. “What animated the legislature in 2006 was brief with the SJC, reviewing the public GLAD and AIDS Action Committee represent the desire to save lives,” adds Klein. “They health benefits of syringe distribution ASGCC, and have already won a very strong were responding to two rising crises: HIV and programs, and documenting the painful but preventable human suffering caused by decision in Barnstable Superior Court in Hepatitis C.” intravenous drug use. It tells the personal December 2015. The judge agreed that the The case originated in September 2015 stories of people who inject drugs, their ASGCC program meets a critical public health when Barnstable’s director of public health families, and the professionals who work to need, and noted of the people it serves: “They hand-delivered to ASGCC a “cease and desist” save their lives. Signed by groups including aren’t just any people. They are extremely order, demanding that the group shut down Partners Healthcare System, UMASS the program. In addition to distributing clean vulnerable people. They are men and women, Memorial Health Care, Blue Cross Blue young and old, people from all places and all syringes, the program collects syringes, Shield of Massachusetts, Harvard Pilgrim stations. They are our brothers and our sisters.” educates clients about addiction and recovery Healthcare, the Massachusetts Infectious “The judge agreed with us: Massachusetts options, and makes referrals to treatment. Disease Society, and the Massachusetts law is very clear that there are no restrictions Crucially, the program also distributes Narcan, Public Health Association, the brief argues, which reverses overdoses. “An erosion—to say nothing of a reversal— The importance of the SJC clearly of two decades of success in reducing HIV BOARD OF DIRECTORS interpreting the law is not only for the good transmission rates among people who inject of ASGCC’s clients, but for people who inject drugs would greatly harm the public health.” Richard J. Yurko, President drugs all across the state. Every city and “In many ways, it’s disheartening to be Joyce Kauffman, Vice President town in Massachusetts has been touched by fighting a battle that should have been Darian Butcher, Clerk the opioid crisis. Shutting down a program concluded long ago,” says Klein. “We hope David Hayter, Treasurer that works—this year alone, AIDS Support with this case to settle this once and for all—at Beck Bailey Group of Cape Cod helped reverse nearly 300 least in Massachusetts—and enable groups Mark Brown overdoses—recklessly and needlessly put like ASGCC to go on saving lives.” n Edward F. Byrne Andre L. Campagna Jo Davis Shane Dunn Kyle Yvonne Faget 3 Benjamin Franklin

Ralph Freidin Photo: InfinityPortraitDesign.com Deborah Heller Joseph Metmowlee Garland George Hastie Terry Holzman Charles Latovich Dianne R. Phillips Marlene B. Seltzer Trina Soske “Massachusetts law is very clear that there are no restrictions on an individual David Wilson or organization providing free access to clean needles. What animated the legislature in 2006 was the desire to save lives.” – Ben Klein, GLAD AIDS Law Project Director Ropes & Gray Transforms Lives Through Pro Bono Legal Services

hen GLAD was founded in 1978, not provide the highest level of service. The Ropes socio-economic status and have requested one major law firm was willing to & Gray team is being led by two partners and assistance with documents issued by dozens Whelp a non-profit fight for LGBTQ a core team of counsel, associates and senior of states. With so many different documents rights in court. paralegals, who volunteered to organize and so many different states involved, many Times have changed greatly. recruitment, training, matching clients with attorneys have developed sub-specialties, Today, GLAD benefits from the pro bono attorneys, information sharing, and advising. and have even formed mini practice groups assistance of many major firms that generously Over 100 Ropes & Gray attorneys have signed focused on different geographies or sub- provide resources and expertise by advising, up to participate within the first month of the groups—for example, minors, whose parents writing amicus briefs, serving as co-counsel project. The volunteers ranged from first-year have accessed the project on their behalf. in litigation, making donations, and providing associates to partners, and represent offices Kristi Jobson, an associate in Ropes & space for meetings and events. all over the world—Boston, Chicago, Hong Gray’s litigation practice, has worked with One such firm that stands out in its Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, ten families so far, and says, “Some of the commitment is Ropes & Gray. Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C., and best days I’ve had in the last couple of The attorneys at Ropes & Gray have been Shanghai. “I was humbled by the response,” months have been meeting parents and their steadfast in their support of GLAD, and the says Ropes & Gray associate Emily Oldshue, children in probate court and submitting a entire LGBTQ community. Civil Rights Project “but not surprised. Pro bono work is deeply name change. It’s a big day for the kids; they Director Mary Bonauto formed a high-profile ingrained here.” sometimes bring siblings and other family litigation team with Ropes & Gray’s appellate Ropes & Gray corporate paralegal coordinator members. It’s a real privilege to be there & Supreme Court partner Douglas Hallward- Tim Percival, a transgender man, who on such an exciting and affirming day in the Dreimeier. Together they successfully transitioned while working for the firm, family’s life.” argued the landmark marriage equality case has been a key player in ensuring that Such personal client contact and the impact Obergefell v. Hodges at the U.S. Supreme cultural competency was central to training: that can be made for clients are two of Court in 2015, which guaranteed marriage “Seeing that transgender clients are treated the immediate benefits that Ropes & Gray rights under the law for all couples. Ropes respectfully is central to providing good attorneys get from the project. “There’s a high & Gray has also authored supporting amicus representation,” he says. Percival also set level of gratification in being able to work as briefs in two recent cases: Partanen v. up a database for volunteer attorneys to a team across offices to provide quick and Gallagher (see page 7) and Barber v. Bryant access documents and share information tailored help to individuals seeking corrected (see page 14). with each other. identification documents,” says Oldshue, Through its fellowship program, Ropes & GLAD Answers, GLAD’s legal information “providing support and a legal backstop as Gray also provided GLAD with outstanding service, is the first point of contact for clients, they navigate the process.” attorneys for three years running, each of where the requests are reviewed to determine While helping individuals, the project has whom served on GLAD’s DOMA team, and specific needs, and then sent to Ropes & Gray. also already had an impact on probate court. one of whom, Liz Monnin-Browder, co-edited Each person is matched with an attorney, “We discovered that one probate court really the book Transgender Family Law, along with who guides them through either one process wasn’t moving at all on name changes,” says Jennifer Levi, director of the Transgender —say, getting a driver’s license—or many Jobson. “We worked with GLAD attorneys to Rights Project. —including everything from a new birth nudge that court to move more quickly.” In late 2016 Ropes & Gray stepped up in a certificate to a corrected passport. As of this Ropes & Gray hopes the knowledge base its significant way, partnering with GLAD and the writing, roughly 200 transgender people attorneys are developing through the Pop-Up Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition across New England have signed up for Transgender ID Project will be of continued 4 (MTPC) to create a Pop-Up Transgender ID the project and are receiving legal help. A use to GLAD and to the LGBTQ community in Project. GLAD’s Levi envisioned a rapid-response scholarship fund set up by MTPC enables the months and years ahead. n project to provide legal representation to those without means to pay the government transgender people needing a legal name fees charged for new documents. change and corrections to Social Security “Our partnership provides a critical legal cards, U.S. passports, driver’s licenses or service and practical resource to the trans- other state-issued identification cards, gender community free of charge,” says birth certificates, and other identification Ropes & Gray’s Jane Goldstein, who co-chairs documents—all reflecting the client’s proper the firm’s mergers & acquisitions practice. name and gender. “It’s of paramount importance for transgender In November 2016, Ropes & Gray quickly individuals to ensure their documentation is recruited attorneys to participate in the project consistent, and the demand for our services is and created a legal training model to ensure greater than we could have ever imagined.” participating attorneys understood how to Clients range in age, life experience, and Telling LGBTQ Youth They Are OK Just As They Are: Working to Ban Conversion Therapy Across New England

ith a deeply homophobic administration assuming power Last year, Vermont became the first New England state to ban in Washington, the imperative for LGBTQ-affirming legislation conversion therapy, joining California, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Wat the state level has only intensified. Bans on conversion Illinois and Washington, DC. This year bills will go forward in therapy for minors will take center stage in New England legislatures Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. over the coming year, and GLAD will be in the thick of the fight. Massachusetts legislators have tried twice before to pass a ban. Last Conversion therapy is the practice of attempting to change a person’s session, the bill made it out of committee in the House, and came close sexual orientation or gender identity. It has been solidly discredited as to a vote. The current bill is sponsored by Rep. Kay Khan and Senator ineffective and unethical by medical and mental health organizations such Mark Montigny. “We’re hopeful this will be the year the legislation as the American Medical Association and the American Psychological passes,” says Klein. Association, not least because it is profoundly damaging to the youth A strong coalition is coming together in Connecticut around a bill, subjected to it. including the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, the Connecticut Women’s “There is still a deep-seated belief that being lesbian, gay, Education and Legal Fund, and True Colors. “We believe the bill bisexual or transgender is abnormal—it is not accepted on the has a serious chance,” says Jennifer Levi, who is working with same level as being straight or being cisgender,” says GLAD Senior Connecticut allies. Attorney Ben Klein. “These laws not only protect young people from Rhode Island’s bill has also been introduced several times, never serious harm, they send a strong message from the government that moving out of committee. It will be reintroduced this session, as will there is nothing to change about their sexual orientation or gender a New Hampshire bill. Advocates in Maine are in the beginning stages identity because being LGBTQ is perfectly okay. That’s extremely of preparing a bill as well. GLAD is working with local and state important right now.” partners across these states. Legislation focuses on minors for a few reasons. While adults are free It’s important that the language in these bills is carefully crafted. to make decisions (misguided or not) about their sexual orientation or “One key role GLAD plays in these statewide coalitions,” says Klein, “is gender identity, young people are subject to the wishes of their parents drafting legislation to ensure it is strongly worded and legally sound, or guardians. The law needs to protect them from this form of abuse. and that baseless legal concerns from our opponents are rebutted.” And in the years when a person is learning about and coming to terms With luck and hard work, New England could take an important stance with their identity, strong messages that they are not okay just as they in opposition to the new federal administration and become a region are can cause extreme emotional distress with lifelong consequences. completely free of conversion therapy. n

New Hampshire Momentum for Transgender Protections omentum is building for transgender rights in New Hampshire, with town after town passing non- M discrimination ordinances—and, in December, with Representative Ed Butler introducing legislation to update the state’s existing civil rights laws to provide fully inclusive protections for transgender individuals. New Hampshire’s largely Republican political landscape is not discouraging, says GLAD ED Janson Wu, who plays a key role in the Freedom New Hampshire coalition supporting the bill. 5 “New Hampshire was the first state to figure out a Republican strategy for protecting marriage equality,” he says. “The non-discrimination bill has bi-partisan sponsorship, and we’ll be working hard at educating all legislators as well as the public about transgender lives and the importance of these protections. Equality and fairness aren’t partisan issues.” The bill has already received strong support from across the political spectrum, as well as from law enforcement, civic, faith and business leaders throughout the Granite State. A hearing will be held in January or February. “Our community is going to need state and local victories in the coming period,” says Wu. The Huckman family shares why clear non-discrimination protections “I’m hopeful that New Hampshire will be one of them.” n matter to them at www.freedomnh.org/category/voices Transgender Students and the Right to Education

It’s every as it is for all adolescents—and therefore central to an effective child’s right educational environment,” says Levi. to learn, GLAD also recently worked with and to learn Colby Patrie, a student at Northern Essex Community College (NECC) in while being Massachusetts, to make the campus a themselves. more welcoming place for transgender students. “Community colleges offer open access to affordable academic and workforce training programs,” says senior staff attorney Polly Crozier. “It is critical that these community institutions are inclusive to all, including transgender students.” The college’s policy did not allow all transgender women to use the women’s facilities and all transgender men to use the men’s facilities. And with no all-gender bathrooms on the classroom side of campus, students had to choose between going to the bathroom and going to class. The alternative was using a bathroom where they felt uncomfortable or unsafe. “The facilities policy caused confusion, fear, and shame on campus,” says Colby. “I really felt it needed to change, to let transgender students know that the school respects, values and includes us.” Aryana, with her mom’s help, stood up for her right to attend school as herself, GLAD worked to bring NECC in line with state and federal law, without harassment. sending a demand letter to the school which read in part, “NECC’s current policy is out of step with virtually every other entity in the very young person is entitled by law to an education. When Commonwealth of Massachusetts…[including] elementary schools, school environments are hostile to any student—because of race, middle schools, high schools, employers, landlords…hospitals, gyms, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or gender identity E homeless shelters and swimming pools.” —we fail in our responsibility to provide that education. Following the demand letter, NECC changed this policy—and another “A transgender student must be able to bring his or her whole self policy affecting transgender students and their ability to use the correct to school in order to learn,” says Jennifer Levi, director of GLAD’s name in school records. Transgender Rights Project. “When we advocate for transgender Transgender students of color can experience multiple forms of students to be called by the correct name, to be free from bullying discrimination that exacerbate their isolation and mistreatment in and harassment, or to have access to bathrooms and locker rooms school. In search of a better education for her children, Hartford, according to their gender, we do so because these are essential Connecticut mom Shabree enrolled her child Aryana in the South components of an effective learning environment.” Windsor Public Schools through the Open Choice program. But nearly Levi is helping to shepherd five different amicus briefs filed in support as soon as Aryana stepped in the door of her new school, she was of Gavin Grimm, the high school student in the ACLU case G.G. v. subjected to disproportionate discipline and overt racial and gender bias. 6 Gloucester County School Board, which will be heard before the U.S. The South Windsor public schools’ mission statement calls for an Supreme Court in March. Grimm’s education is being disrupted by his emotionally and physically safe environment. Shabree’s repeated school’s refusal to let him use the proper bathroom. attempts to work with the school administration to address the One brief is being written on behalf of the World Professional escalating problems were futile. Aryana, she says, “despised going to Association for Transgender Health, the Pediatric Endocrine school every day.” Society, the nation’s leading clinics specializing in serving With Greater Hartford Legal Aid, GLAD helped the family file a transgender youth, Dr. Norman Spack of Boston Children’s complaint with the Connecticut Human Rights Commission, and tell Hospital, and a number of other prominent doctors and medical their story to the local media. Even though Aryana ended up leaving and policy organizations with expertise in adolescent and South Windsor, her case brought to light systemic problems in the transgender health issues. It closely examines research on child school, and empowered both Aryana and Shabree. “Life is way too development of identity, and the role of schools in advancing—or short to settle, to just conform to what society wants you to be,” says thwarting—healthy development. “The brief makes the case that Shabree. Aryana agrees: “Don’t be the person inside the box. Step being able to use the same bathroom as other students at school is outside, and be yourself.” critical for the healthy development of transgender adolescents— It’s every child’s right to learn, and to learn while being themselves. n Who is a Parent? Catching the Law Up with Families

here has never been a single way to Partanen v. Gallagher, declaring that Karen their children (when able), and that custody form families, despite the 1950s image Partanen, a non-birth mother, can be a full and parenting time are based on the children’s Tof a married mother and father with legal “parent” to the two children she raised best interests. Julie argued that those laws two biological children who were born with her former partner Julie Gallagher. applied only to genetic parents and not to after marriage. Julie and Karen planned together to start a someone like Karen. There have always been single parents, family. Julie gave birth to both children, who Although the paternity law uses gendered adoptive parents, and parents who do not were conceived through assisted reproductive terms, the SJC ruling unanimously stated that marry, as well as other family formations. But technology (ART) with the consent of both its provisions may be read in a gender-neutral until recently the law has formally recognized women. They were in Florida for much of their manner, to apply where a child is “born to [two as “parents” only those whose bonds to their relationship with few protections available, people], is received into their joint home, and is children were formed by marriage, biology, or but they raised their children together and held out by both as their own child.” The Court adoption. That has left some children without presented themselves to teachers, doctors, emphasized that the existing law “appl[ies] to full legal protections and the emotional security and family, as parents. They split up after 13 same-sex couples, even though at least one that comes with that—especially (but not years together, and agreed to co-parent. But member of the couple may well lack biological exclusively) for those with LGBTQ parents. soon Julie sought to sever Karen’s relationship ties to the children.” With recent cases in Massachusetts, Rhode with the children because Karen was not “This decision is a major victory for families, Island, and Vermont, GLAD is ensuring that related to the children through birth, marriage and especially for children, who should not no children are penalized and all families or adoption. be deprived of a ‘parent’ because the adults are recognized no matter how their families Massachusetts “paternity” law enables did not marry or used assisted reproduction,” were formed. children who are born to an unmarried couple says GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary In October 2016, the Massachusetts Supreme to have a determination of who their legal Bonauto, who argued the case. Following this Judicial Court issued a decision in GLAD’s case parents are, ensuring that both parents support landmark ruling for children, achieved with MA family law attorneys Patience Crozier (who has since joined GLAD’s legal staff), Elizabeth Roberts, Teresa Harkins La Vita, and Joyce Kauffman, GLAD is working to adjust court and vital record forms to include all families. Bryce Helie and Cara Millett, a Rhode Island couple, faced a different challenge in establishing their family’s legal status, and their fight has resulted in a breakthrough in Rhode Island law, establishing a path to parenthood that does not rely on biology, marriage or adoption. Cara and Bryce had carefully researched the legal and medical issues involved in having children. They decided to use ART, and their first daughter was born to Cara in August 2010. “We were ecstatic, and so happy to be 7 a family,” says Bryce. The couple established Bryce’s parentage through a second-parent adoption in Rhode Island. Cara and Bryce chose to have a second child, this time with Bryce becoming pregnant. In June 2013, Bryce and Cara welcomed their second daughter into their family. When the couple filed a second-parent adoption to solidify Cara’s legal relationship with their daughter, the family court required them to post a newspaper advertisement in Bryce Helie and Cara Millett’s fight to secure their legal relationship with their children has opened a path Fairfax, Virginia, to alert the anonymous sperm to parenthood in Rhode Island that does not rely on biology, marriage, or adoption. donor about the adoption. “At first we couldn’t continued on page 13 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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Special Thanks to the Following Attorneys and Staff at Ropes & Gray LLP Who are Part of the Pop-Up Transgender ID Project (read more on page 4)

ATTORNEYS Elisa Durrette Reed Harasimowicz Ashley Paquin J.A. Zaid Van Giffen Jessica Alam Jennifer Ehrlich Gabrielle Hirz Jae Woo Park Christian Vareika Gavin Alexander Rebecca Ellis Josiah Irvin Matt Pelnar Helen Vera Luis Andrade Rachel Endick Brittany Jackson Alexandria Perrin Ethan Weinberg Sarah Blankstein Isabelle Farrar Kristi Jobson Veronika Polakova Amanda Whitney Sandy Boer Jaime Feeney Pristine Johannessen Andrea Ren Mark Xiong 11 Danielle Bogaards Becky Fenstermaker Kirsten Lapham Amanda Richey Zhen Zhang David Broome Daniel Fine Teo Larsson-Sax David Rojas Susan Zhu Nicole Cabrera Kelly Finn James Lobo Robert Rossi Sarah Zhu Sarah Chen Daniel Freshman Adam Lovell Meredythe Ryan Anne Cheng Molly Gachignard PJ Mancuso Kathleen Saunders STAFF Zach Cloyd Christy Gately Elizabeth McCann Gregor Megan Everman Matthew Coleman Nicole Gelsomini Mike McGrath Jessica Server Catherine Harris Ally de Padua Michael Gershoni Alison McLaughlin Susan Sheffler Tim Percival Joe DeMedeiros John Giampa Alex Middleton Benjamin Shellhorn Elizabeth Purtill Gregory DiCiancia Michael Gilbert Joseph Milner Jessica Soricelli Isabel Dische Gabriel Gillmeyer Kim Nemirow Meg Sullivan as of 12/21/16 Rebecca Dorfan Jane Goldstein Talia Nissimyan Shreevani Suvarna Bonnie Doyle Keira Grimes Liam O’Sullivan Naomi Tom Welcome New Staff Welcome New Board Leadership

James Barden, Public Affairs Assistant Prior to joining GLAD, James LAD’s board of directors has new leadership: Richard J. Yurko worked on anti-homelessness initiatives at Breaking Ground in New is now President, Joyce Kauffman is Vice President, Darian M. York City and served in AmeriCorps VISTA in Massachusetts, where G Butcher is Clerk, and David Hayter is Treasurer. Yurko succeeds he conducted anti-hunger outreach after college. James has a B.A. in Dianne Phillips, who served as board president for the past five years, Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and and who will remain on the board. “I’m thrilled to have board leadership an A.A. from Bard College at Simon’s Rock. He is currently a part-time transfer to Rich’s capable and experienced hands,” says Phillips. graduate student at Harvard University. Yurko previously served as Vice President and has been on the board since 2009. He is the founder and former Managing Shareholder Patience Crozier, Senior Staff Attorney Polly came to GLAD from of Yurko, Salvesen & Remz, P.C. A graduate of Dartmouth College, private practice where her work focused on LGBTQ probate and he received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Senior family law. She has partnered with GLAD on important precedent- Projects Editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. setting family law cases including Hunter v. Rose, where she served “I’m honored and humbled to become board president at this as trial counsel and co-counsel on appeal, and Partanen v. Gallagher, important time for our community and for GLAD,” says Yurko. “The where she worked on the appellate team. Polly is a graduate of Yale priorities laid out by our new strategic plan—racial and economic justice, state level public policy, and access to justice—speak to this University and Boston College Law School, and served as a law clerk historic moment. Our work is more critical than ever before.” to the Honorable Irma S. Raker of the Maryland Court of Appeals and Kauffman is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. She is a to the Justices of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court. founding member of the National Family Law Advisory Council, a member of the Family Equality Emeritus Board, and a frequent speaker and writer Erica Larocque, Events Manager Prior to joining GLAD, Erica worked on LGBTQ family law. Kauffman has been on GLAD’s board since 2012. in Human Resources for Oxfam America, as a Legal Fellow for Senator Butcher is an Associate at Day Pitney LLP, representing financial Jeanne Shaheen, and as a Law Clerk for the U.S. Copyright Office. Erica institutions in the defense of claims by borrowers. She also represents holds a J.D. from the University of New Hampshire School of Law, a dual individual and corporate clients in probate matters. Butcher earned M.F.A./M.B.A. in Theatre Management from California State University— her J.D. from Boston University School of Law and clerked for Long Beach, and a B.A. in Drama from San Francisco State University. Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice Malcolm Graham (ret). She has been on GLAD’s board since 2014. Elaine McGrath, Operations Assistant Elaine has been a hearing David Hayter has held executive and finance positions at Liberty officer and Assistant General Counsel for the Mass. Department of Mutual, Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan, and Manulife/John Public Utilities, a community activist advocating on environmental Hancock. At Liberty Mutual, he was the founding co-executive sponsor justice issues in Chelsea, MA, an inmate advocate, a program of the company’s first LGBT Employee Resource Group. He holds an coordinator for Marblehead’s Abbot Library, and most recently, MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. n Executive Assistant at the Conservation Law Foundation.

Aria Pierce, Development Assistant Aria previously worked in Boston and New York City libraries and bookstores. While in New York, Thank you, Dianne! she helped create For the Birds, a feminist collective. Aria studied Literature with a minor in Women’s Studies at SUNY Purchase and has Dianne Phillips, a partner a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute. at Holland and Knight, joined GLAD’s board in 2006 and served Alex Weinstein, Legal Assistant Alex joined GLAD after graduating as board president from 2011-2016. 12 from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Government, focusing in political She oversaw two strategic plans, theory and constitutional law. He has interned for the New Hampshire the search for an executive Public Defender and the New York Civil Liberties Union in Long Island. Photo: InfinityPortraitDesign.com director, a name change, and As president of the Gender-Inclusive Greek Council, he led reforms of unprecedented fundraising. the Council’s non-discrimination and financial aid policies. Dianne was at the Supreme Court to hear DOMA arguments in 2013, and to see GLAD’s Mary Bonauto argue successfully for nationwide marriage equality in 2015. Both board and staff are grateful for Dianne Phillips and Dianne’s generous spirit and steady Janson Wu hand during her tenure. GLAD Answers Meets the Need

GLAD Answers, GLAD’s legal information service, has people get proper identity documents before any changes that might always provided a window on the concerns of the LGBTQ and HIV+ come with a new federal administration. Working with the law firm community. Never has that been more true than in the weeks leading Ropes & Gray LLP, who have trained 100 attorneys to assist with Social up to and following November’s Presidential election. Security cards and passports, as well as state-based documents like Daniel Weiss manages GLAD Answers and supervises its team of highly- birth certificates, drivers licenses, and state ID’s, GLAD Answers has trained volunteers. Before November 8, says Daniel, the general anxiety assisted nearly 200 transgender people as of this writing. caused by the campaign’s inflammatory rhetoric meant slightly higher “The most encouraging thing has been calls from people wanting to call volume, with a definite increase in the intensity of the calls. “People know how to get involved,” says Weiss. “I’m also relieved by what we sometimes contact us not with a specific legal issue, but just to voice their have not been seeing, which is reports of violence.” distress,” Daniel says. Call volume came down to a more normal level about 5 weeks after After November 8, however, the floodgates broke. Calls and emails the election, though Weiss does anticipate another escalation as the poured into GLAD Answers from people worried about everything from their new administration begins to make policy. “Most likely rhetoric will heat immigration status, to the security of their marriages up again. We will also start to see the reality of and parental bonds, to health care access. The whatever new policies and laws are coming our number of calls increased to six times the number way: what will happen to the Affordable Care Act, GLAD Answers would typically handle. immigration, protections for transgender students.” “Our immediate role was to provide Information that comes in through GLAD information, and where we could, reassurance,” Answers enables GLAD to advocate for the says Weiss. GLAD produced FAQ’s to address community, even as GLAD Answers is providing the most common subjects, brought in additional a service. That two-way connection will be more volunteers to work the phones, and just plain vital than ever in the coming years. n worked overtime. GLAD Answers is available Monday through Led by Transgender Rights Project Director Friday, 1:30 – 4:30 pm at 800-455-GLAD or Jennifer Levi, GLAD Answers also devised a Pop-Up GLAD Answers volunteers Charles Studen, via email anytime at www.gladanswers.org Transgender ID Project, to help transgender Cris Zubizarreta, and Michael DiCaprio

Who is a Parent? continued from page 7 understand what he was asking,” says Cara. “It eligible to be declared a parent if they parents to the two children they were raising. made no sense to notify an anonymous sperm functioned as a parent to the child. “We Notwithstanding, several years after they split donor of the fact that we were asking the Court are thrilled and relieved,” says Bryce. “And up, Jenny began limiting the children’s contact to formally recognize Bryce and my legal we’re happy that other Rhode Island parents with Sarah. parentage.” and parents-to-be can now secure their When Sarah filed a Petition to Establish GLAD’s Jennifer Levi represented Cara and families this way.” Parentage with the Vermont Superior Court’s Bryce along with attorney Katherine Kohm, GLAD is also currently awaiting a decision Family Division in August 2015, the court an associate in the Providence, Rhode Island in Sinnott v. Peck, a case argued by Levi declined to accept her filing. The court said office of Pierce Atwood. They asked the court before the Vermont Supreme Court in May it was disinclined to hear parentage actions to withdraw the adoption requirement of notice 2016. Sarah Sinnott is seeking to establish from “third parties” where there has been no 13 to the sperm donor or, in the alternative, to her legal relationship to the children she and adoption, marriage or civil union, ignoring the simply issue an order recognizing the two her former partner raised together for over parent-child relationship established between women as full, legal parents, without having to ten years, including for three years after Sarah and the two children. comply with the adoption requirements. they split up. Sarah and her former partner, A ruling in Sarah’s favor would establish On October 26, 2016, the Chief Judge of the Jennifer Peck, had gotten together shortly her right to be heard in family court, as a Rhode Island Family Court issued a decision after Jenny had adopted a daughter. Shortly non-marital partner who jointly raised the acknowledging Cara as a parent, eliminating after that, the couple jointly planned to adopt children with her former partner. “Sarah is the need for an adoption, and thereby creating another child. Because it was an international Mama to these children. No matter the label an alternative path to parentage for couples adoption and they were concerned about not put on her by a court, she is a parent in like Cara and Bryce through an “order of being able to adopt because of changes in their eyes,” says Levi. “The court needs to parentage.” It’s an important development, international adoption laws, Jenny and Sarah protect children-parent relationships, like creating a route that is less costly than adoption decided that Jenny would be the only one to Sarah’s, no matter the formal arrangements. and more closely tracks the reality of families. formally adopt their second child. Throughout Children’s lives and hearts are at stake and According to the decision, an adult is their relationship, they both functioned as courts need to step in to protect them.” n Docket Update

Baker v. Diocese of Worcester Doe v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company GLAD and the ACLU of Massachusetts submitted an amicus brief to GLAD is pursuing a case in federal court charging that Mutual of Omaha the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in this case Insurance Company discriminated when it denied a gay man long term involving the alleged sexual harassment of a college summer intern by care insurance because he is taking Truvada. Truvada, a form of PrEP a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester (MA) and a claim of or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, is a medication prescribed to HIV-negative retaliation in the investigation process by another priest of the Diocese. people to prevent the transmission of HIV. This is the first lawsuit in the The Diocese and its priests claim they are exempt from certain types of country challenging discrimination against a person on PrEP. The case is damages on the basis of the “ministerial exception” in the law, and the currently in the discovery phase. MCAD agreed and went further and dismissed the claims in their entirety based on the exception. GLAD and the ACLU argue that the MCAD has Hively v. Ivy Tech both misconceived the nature of the claims asserted, and gone too We are awaiting a ruling from the full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals far in applying the ministerial exception. We are currently awaiting for the Seventh Circuit on the question of whether Title VII includes an MCAD ruling. protection against sexual orientation discrimination. Lambda Legal is representing Kimberly Hively, who charges that she was repeatedly Barber v. Bryant GLAD filed an amicus brief in one of two cases challenging Mississippi’s passed over for full-time employment and was ultimately fired because so-called “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government she is a lesbian, in her claim against former employer Ivy Tech Discrimination Act.” The unfair law—likely a harbinger of proposed Community College. Following an initial panel ruling upholding the laws to come in other states—would give a free pass to any individual, dismissal of the case based on existing circuit precedent, GLAD and organization, or corporation choosing to discriminate in a wide variety the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed an amicus brief in support of public and private settings based upon their asserted beliefs that of Hively’s petition to have the full court rehear the case, arguing the marriage can only be between a man and a woman; that sex can only Court should not be bound to follow the existing Circuit rule because it is take place within such a marriage; and that one’s sex is determined unworkable and leads to inconsistent results. The Court heard argument at birth. GLAD’s brief, written with Ropes & Gray, addresses equal en banc on November 30, 2016. protection issues, arguing that the law cannot allow discrimination based on one’s beliefs about a class of people. We also state that this In Re Carol Boardman law goes far beyond what conscience-protecting laws have allowed in GLAD, together with the ACLU of Maine, EqualityMaine, and Trans Youth the past, and far beyond simple opposition to marriage equality. The Equality Foundation, submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to the Maine National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the ALCU also worked on Supreme Judicial Court in support of an appellant who was denied a the brief. The case will be argued soon in the U.S. Court of Appeals for legal name change. The Probate Court denied Ms. Boardman’s petition the Fifth Circuit. on the ground that changing her surname to that of a friend would give a false impression that the two are married. The brief, which stresses Blatt v. Cabela’s Retail Inc. the importance to the LGBT community of consistent application of We are awaiting a ruling from the federal district court in the Eastern the name change statute, argues that Ms. Boardman’s petition met all District of Pennsylvania in this case challenging the constitutionality the requirements of the statute and that the Probate Court abused its of the exclusion of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) from the definition discretion in denying it. The statute requires only that a name not be of disability in the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A changed for fraudulent purposes, and there was no evidence of fraud in December 2015 hearing in the case marked the first opportunity for the constitutional arguments for striking the transgender exclusion written the record in Ms. Broadman’s case. Furthermore, the brief argues, the into the ADA to be fully laid out in court. GLAD submitted an amicus brief Court’s assertion that two unmarried individuals cannot share a surname 14 and is providing ongoing consultation. undermines Maine public policy which both prohibits marital status discrimination and supports families in their many forms, both marital Carcaño v. McCrory and nonmarital. GLAD joined with the Transgender Law Center and the National Center for Lesbian Rights on an amicus brief on behalf of school administrators Missouri v. Johnson from 20 states filed in the federal court challenge to North Carolina’s GLAD joined a friend-of-the-court brief submitted by The Center for HIV HB2. The brief addresses the signatories’ rationales for adopting, Law and Policy and the Missouri ACLU on behalf of Michael Johnson, and experience in implementing, policies and practices that respect a former Missouri college student sentenced to more than 30 years transgender students’ gender identity. The school board members, for violating Missouri’s HIV transmission and exposure statute. In late superintendents, principals and other school leaders represented in December 2016, the Missouri Court of Appeals reversed Johnson’s the brief all affirm that these accommodations are part of providing an conviction. While Johnson’s case was remanded pending a new trial, the optimal, welcoming learning environment for all students. Carcaño v. reversal is a positive step in the fight against HIV criminalization. McCrory is brought by Lambda Legal and the ACLU. LGBTQ Youth and the Juvenile Justice System Settlement Announced in Walmart Spousal Insurance Class Action The health, safety and well-being of LGBTQ youth is at the forefront of GLAD’s class action lawsuit filed on behalf of former Walmart associate GLAD’s work. LGBTQ youth face a number of challenges, particularly Jacqueline Cote and her late wife Dee Smithson is drawing to a conclusion. those in the juvenile justice system, where they are disproportionately represented. We are currently working in Maine, following the tragic In December, the parties filed a motion (which was approved) asking the suicide of a young transgender man in November, to monitor the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to grant preliminary treatment of LGBTQ youth in the Long Creek Youth Development Center, approval of a class action settlement in Cote v. Wal-Mart Stores. Cote Maine’s juvenile detention facility. In collaboration with local, state and had challenged Walmart’s lack of health insurance benefits for same-sex national groups, GLAD is working to ensure a thorough and transparent spouses of Walmart associates prior to 2014. investigation into the death, to promote better conditions for LGBTQ youth in the facility, and to explore systemic issues in the hopes of supporting In addition to Allison Wright and Gary Buseck of GLAD, Cote has been LGBTQ youth in their communities rather than incarcerating them. represented by the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs, Outten & Golden LLP, and Arnold & Porter LLP. LGBTQ Youth and Family Rejection “I’m pleased that Walmart was willing to resolve this issue for me and GLAD represents Kyle (not his real name), a teenage boy in rural Maine other associates who are married to someone of the same sex,” says whose mother responded with hostility after he came out as gay. As a Cote. “It’s a tremendous relief to bring this chapter of my life to a close.” result of his mother’s treatment—which included isolating him, making fun of him, and cutting him off from his support network—Kyle was The final step will be a fairness hearing, to take place in April hospitalized twice due to concerns of self-harm. Working with local counsel 2017. The proposed settlement class is expected to include a few Kids Legal/Pinetree Legal Assistance and Teresa M. Cloutier, Esq., GLAD thousand current and former Walmart associates who worked for was able to secure an emergency temporary guardianship order for Kyle’s Walmart and were married during all or part of the calendar years step-grandmother. Since being out of his mother’s home, Kyle is thriving 2011, 2012 and 2013. Anyone who believes they may be part of and has reconnected with a local LGBTQ youth theater troupe. We are currently the class should contact Allison Wright at [email protected] or visit awaiting a hearing to finalize a permanent guardianship arrangement. www.glad.org 17th Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner

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