GLAD in New Hampshire

Fighting for Your Right to Live Free

• 2007 - GLAD ensures equal access to health insurance and leave benefits of LGBT New Hampshire state employees.

• 2005 - GLAD files a lawsuit with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a transgender woman in New Hampshire who was fired from her job when she told her employer that she would be transitioning.
  
  
• 2003 - GLAD files a brief arguing that same-sex relationships should be considered as significant as any others, in a case questioning whether a same-sex extra-marital relationship constitutes adultery.
  
  
• 2002 - GLAD wins LGBT families equal access to family membership rates at the Nashua YMCA
  

• 2001-2003 - GLAD wins compensation from the federal September 11 Victim Compensation Fund on behalf of a New Hampshire lesbian whose partner of 13 years was one of the passengers on Flight 11 who died on September 11.
  
  
• 2001 - GLAD sues a physician in south NH for refusing to provide in-office treatment to an HIV-positive patient.
  
  
• 2000 - GLAD stops the Nashua Housing Authority from illegally demanding private medical information about individuals living in subsidized housing.
  
  
• 1999-2002 - GLAD wins the first NH public accomodation sexual orientation case on behalf of a lesbian who was denied treatment by her dentist.
  
  
• 1999 - GLAD forces the Manchester School District to recognize a student-initiated Gay/Straight Alliance at West High School.
  
  
• 1996 - GLAD helps overturn a ban on any discussion of gay and lesbian issues in Merrimack schools.
  
  
• 1994 - GLAD wins the right of a NH non-biological mother to sue for visitation with the son she jointly raised.

• 1994 - GLAD successfully sues Delta Airlines for barring a Dover man from a Delta flight because of HIV-related symptoms.