GLAD: What’s on the horizon in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality?
What’s on the horizon in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality?
As we begin the search for GLAD’s next executive director, we asked staff and...
Boston Pride Returns to March in South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Boston Pride made history last year when a group of Irish-proud LGBT people was officially invited to march in South Boston's historic—and very traditional—2015 St. Patrick's Day Parade. And march they did!
Now, for the second year,...
Make your voice heard on Sexual Health Lobby Day at Mass. State House
The defense and expansion of fact-based and LGBTQ-inclusive sex education, reproductive justice and access to health services are under attack from the new federal administration, says Janson Wu, executive director of GLAD in a...
‘Rainbow Resistance’ Boston Pride Week 2018 kicks off this weekend
Starting with an old tradition—the Rainbow Flag raising ceremony over City Hall on Friday, June 1—to a spanking new one—the High Heel Dash for Charity around Faneuil Hall on Saturday—Boston 2018 Pride Week (June...
LGBTQ older adults confront isolation amid COVID-19 pandemic
“This is not how I planned to spend my retirement!”
Phil Tackle’s words echo the frustration so many LGBTQ older adults felt as soon as...
Stories of our inheritance: Boston’s LGBT Elders of Color
On September 8, the LGBT Elders of Color, a program of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition (MAC), hosted an evening of live storytelling called “Stories of our Inheritance:...
An enduring influence: Black, lesbian and feminist voices of Combahee River Collective still lead...
Almost 50 years ago, in 1974, the Combahee River Collective was founded in Boston by several lesbian and feminist women of African descent. As a sisterhood, they understood that their acts of...
U.S. Congressman Joe Kennedy, Five Others Honored by Boston-based LGBTQI-youth Advocacy Group
U.S. Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy (Mass. fourth district) is one of six advocates for LGBTQI youth being honored by the Boston-based Promise Place School on Friday, April 17, at the Marriott Copley Place in...
Boston Pride block parties, Copley Square candlelight vigil to honor nightclub shooting victims
To honor the victims of the mass shooting that took place early this morning, June 12, at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, all five Boston Pride block parties are holding a moment of silence...
Cape-wide Pride
The event, which will take place on June 24, 2017 from 12–3 p.m. at the Morse Pond School in Falmouth, will feature live music by Provincetown-based folkie troubadour Zoë Lewis, tunes by DJ David Frye, food, games, giveaways and vendor tables. Last year Congressman Bill Keating appeared as a guest speaker, and he has been invited to return in June, says Lieberman.
