It was also referenced in Glad commercials in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which starred the " Man from GLAD ", a trench coat wearing agent who flew around in his combination boat / helicopter demonstrating Glad products to suburban housewives and saving the day.

An early victory came in Fricke v. Lynch ( 1980 ), in which GLAD represented Aaron Fricke, an 18-year-old student at Cumberland High School in Rhode Island, who won the right to bring a same-sex date to a high school dance.

Since that time, GLAD has alternated a cappella recordings with more subdued Adult Contemporary albums, the notable exception being 1995's lively Color Outside the Lines, co-produced by industry veterans Mark Baldwin and Joe Hogue for Light Records.

Artists contributing to the recording include Petra, Charlie Peacock, Susan Ashton, Margaret Becker, Michael Card, GLAD, Rich Mullins, Steven Curtis Chapman, Steve Green, and Russ Taff.

On April 11, 2001, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders ( GLAD ) sued the Massachusetts Department of Health in Superior Court on behalf of seven same-sex couples, all residents of Massachusetts, who had been denied marriage licenses in March and April 2001.

On June 17, 2004, GLAD filed another suit on behalf of eight same-sex couples with ties to Massachusetts, but not residents of the state.

On the fifth anniversary of the Goodridge decision, Mary Bonauto, who argued the case for GLAD, said that state agencies were cooperating fully with its requirements, noting that exceptions occurred in programs that received federal funding and were therefore subject to the restrictions of the U. S. Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ).

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders ( GLAD ) is a non-profit legal rights organization in the United States.

John Ward founded GLAD in 1978 and filed its first case, Doe v. McNiff that same year.

GLAD is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and serves the entire New England area of the United States.

In 2003, GLAD received national attention for its work in winning marriage rights for same-sex couples in Massachusetts.

Beginning in March 2009, GLAD has filed Federal Court challenges to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act that prevents the federal government from providing certain federal rights and benefits and assigning certain responsibilities to individuals in same-sex marriages, including Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, and Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management.

On June 30, 2011, EqualityMaine and GLAD announced plans to place a voter initiative in support of same-sex marriage on Maine's November 2012 ballot.

Blue's Clues won an award from the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness ( GLAD ) for promoting deaf awareness in the media.

GLAD is one of the pioneers of Christian pop / rock and a cappella music, having formed as a progressive rock group in 1972 and discovered a large audience for their a cappella music in 1988.

That vocal sound has since evolved into a complex, self-sustaining life form of its own ..." The GLAD sound is known for its tight harmonies and intricate arrangements with classical and jazz overtones.

GLAD formed on the campus of West Chester State University of Pennsylvania when singer Ed Nalle auditioned for a new Christian band.

GLAD made a venture into the mainstream later that year with A Cappella Gershwin ( featuring arrangements by the legendary Gene Puerling ), which helped introduce their music to a wider audience.

* In 1987, GLAD established the 21st Street Recording studio with JDK Music ( whose clients include Disney World, Bell Atlantic, and The Learning Channel ) in Purcellville, Virginia.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

When his arm came up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and I backed off to cough.

During the course of the trial, Jelke backed up part of that statement.

The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.

He stood looking down for a few seconds, then backed up two or three paces from the edge.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

That Olynthus was backed by Athens and Thebes, rivals to Sparta for the control of Greece, provided them with an additional incentive to break up this growing power in the north.

However, the Game Gear was backed up by significantly more popular titles and consequently the market became dominated by Nintendo followed by Sega in a distant second and the Lynx in third.

The ICJ judgment was backed up by the United Nations, whose charter potentially allowed sanctions or even the use of force to enforce the court's ruling.

Gerrit S. Miller still had in his 1924 edition of List of North American Recent Mammals in the section “ Genus Canis Linnaeas ,” the subordinate heading “ Subgenus Thos Oken ” and backed it up with a reference to Heller.

In law, corroboration refers to the requirement in some jurisdictions, such as in Scotland, that any evidence adduced be backed up by at least one other source ( see Corroboration in Scots law ).

Some signals carry encryption and specify use conditions ( such as " may not be recorded " or " may not be viewed on displays larger than 1 m in diagonal measure ") backed up with the force of law under the WIPO Copyright Treaty and national legislation implementing it, such as the U. S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The Italian Eritreans strongly rejected the Ethiopian annexation of Eritrea after the war: the Party of Shara Italy was established in Asmara in July 1947 and the majority of the members were former Italian soldiers with many Eritrean Ascari ( the organization was even backed up by the government of Italy ).

After World War II increasing encroachment on wilderness land evoked the continued resistance of conservationists, who succeeded in blocking a number of projects in the 1950s and 1960s, including the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam that would have backed up the waters of the Colorado River into the Grand Canyon National Park.

This encouraged the Jacobins to seize power through a parliamentary coup, backed up by force effected by mobilising public support against the Girondist faction, and by utilising the mob power of the Parisian sans-culottes.

Archaeology backed up with accurate dating from dendrochronology suggests that the occupation of southern Scotland started before the arrival of Agricola.

This encouraged the Jacobins to seize power through a parliamentary coup, backed up by force effected by mobilising public support against the Girondist faction, and by utilising the mob power of the Parisian sans-culottes.

This government collapsed in 1997 in the wake of the additional collapse of pyramid schemes and widespread corruption, which caused anarchy and rebellion throughout the country, backed up by former communists and Sigurimi former members.

Cagney denied this, and Lincoln Steffens, husband of the letter's writer, backed up this denial, asserting that the accusation stemmed solely from Cagney's donation to striking cotton workers in the San Joaquin Valley.

During February 1976, the Montoneros sent assistance to the hard-pressed Compañía de Monte Ramón Rosa Jiménez fighting in Tucumán province, in the form of a company of their elite " Jungle Troops ", while the ERP backed them up with a company of their own guerrillas from Cordoba.

Since the death of Vernon Green, in 2000, the group has been " reconstituted " by several musicians and singers who backed up, and / or recorded with Green prior to his death.

The results of the early major studies showed methadone could effectively interrupt illicit opioid use and reduce the associated costs to society, findings which have been consistent with later research and backed up by modern knowledge of the psychological, social and pharmacological mechanisms of illicit opioid addiction.

The academics revealed that not one of the claims just listed was backed up by any known contemporary documentary evidence.

However, very little of Feltham's story is backed up by contemporary evidence.