Ben Klein is a Senior Attorney and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders’ AIDS Law Project Director since 1994. Ben has litigated cases establishing legal protections for LGBTQ people and people living with HIV. Ben was lead counsel in Bragdon v. Abbott, a 1998 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established protection against discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act for people with HIV. In Massachusetts, Ben won a 2001 decision ensuring equal access to liver transplants for HIV-positive individuals. Ben’s HIV litigation has also included AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod v. Town of Barnstable, a 2017 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision establishing the lawfulness of clean syringe distribution, and Doe v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, a case challenging an insurer’s exclusion from long-term care insurance of anyone who takes HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which ended in a settlement reversing the insurer’s exclusion. In 2008, he argued before the Connecticut Supreme Court in Kerrigan & Mock v. Department of Public Health, which struck down the state exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage. He was also co-counsel in Doe v. Clenchy, the first high court decision establishing the right of transgender students to use restrooms consistent with their gender identities.