The Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders organization. This organization is a non-profit legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. GLAD helps the Maineses in their lawsuit against the Orono School District. GLAD is not to be confused with GLAAD.
GLAD Quotes in Becoming Nicole
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Chapter 31
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It was impossible for the Maineses not to feel the importance of their case among these hardworking people, and they realized that their lawsuit wasn’t just about Nicole or their family. It wasn’t even just their story anymore. The lawsuit, even though it was just a state case, had meaning and significance for many others. And now Wayne, Kelly, Nicole, and Jonas would carry the hopes of those others with them as they sought affirmation from the courts.
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GLAD Term Timeline in Becoming Nicole
The timeline below shows where the term GLAD appears in Becoming Nicole. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 21: The Christian Civic League of Maine
...school, as well as attorney Bruce Bell at the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) organization. They want everyone to know that Nicole is suffering and depressed because of Jacob’s...
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Chapter 30: On the Outside Looking In
...bit of good news arrives in March 2010, when Kelly and Wayne receive word that GLAD will represent them in their legal battles.
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Chapter 31: Puberty Begins
On the same trip to Boston, the family also meets with the lawyers from GLAD, who tell the Maineses how strongly they feel about the importance of the case. They...
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Chapter 34: We Can’t Lose
...classmates. He asks them passionately, through tears, not to pass the bill. A lawyer from GLAD also speaks, explaining why a biological sex accommodation rule won’t work because a business could...
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Chapter 35: First Kiss
Nicole gives her first scripted public remarks at the 2011 GLAD Spirit of Justice Award Dinner, introducing her father. Wayne and Nicole are recognized that evening...
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Chapter 38: One Step Back
...never appears as a witness or at the counsel’s table, but the Maineses’ lawyers from GLAD decide to use photographs of Nicole in the fifth and sixth grade to show a...
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Chapter 39: Imagine
On June 12, 2013, the lawyers from GLAD argue the appeal of the Maineses case in Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court. They want to...
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Chapter 40: Our Story
On January 30, 2014, Wayne receives a call from the lawyers at GLAD. The Maineses have won their case in the state Supreme Court. Activists in various fields...
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Chapter 41: Commencement
...Cigna) because it is considered “cosmetic.” The Maineses know this evaluation is absurd. Wayne and GLAD talk to the University of Maine and he submits a second appeal. Two months later,...
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