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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Coll. 033: Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders Collection Finding Aid]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Attorney John Ward founded the non-profit legal rights organization, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) in 1978. It grew out of the Boston/Boise Committee, a group organized in December 1977 to defend the rights of gay men arrested in Boston Massachusetts as part of an &quot;anti-gay witchhunt.&quot; GLAD would file its first lawsuit in 1979 on behalf of a gay man arrested at the Boston Public Library.<br />
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GLAD is based in Boston and works to combat discrimination against the LGBTQ community throughout New England and nationwide. In 2003, GLAD was involved with a lawsuit that would lead to the recognition of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[THP-FA-033]]></dcterms:identifier>
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