LGBTQ activist, part-time Provincetown resident Urvashi Vaid dies at 63
LGBTQ civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid died last weekend at age 63 after a tough fight with cancer at her home in New York City. Vaid and her wife, the comedian Kate...
First gay US Episcopal bishop recalls kind support of late Desmond Tutu
Among the worldwide tributes to the late Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu come the recollections of the Right Rev. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the United States' first gay Episcopal...
Rev. Irene Monroe on ‘remembering our sister-friend bell hooks’
bell hooks died in Kentucky on December 15, 2021, at 69. As an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), bell hooks was inarguably one of the nation's prominent feminist scholars and authors. Time's 100 Women...
Remembrance bench in Portsmouth, NH honors victim of 1984 hate crime
Almost four decades after three teenagers in Bangor, Maine, killed Portsmouth, NH native Charlie Howard, age 23, in 1984 for being gay, the city of Portsmouth is honoring him with a remembrance...
South Coast LGBTQ+ Network to host two gatherings in observance of Trans Day of...
On Saturday, Nov. 20, the South Coast LGBTQ+ Network — a nonprofit organization that supports and advocates for members of the community in and around New Bedford...
Longtime LGBTQ, AIDS activist Shawn M. Lang of Connecticut dies at 65
Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Shawn M. Lang, 65, died suddenly this past Sunday, Oct. 17. From the early 1990s until this past June, Lang had served as deputy director of AIDS...
‘I Was Born This Way’: In Memoriam, Archbishop Carl Bean
(May 26, 1944–September 7, 2021)
This May, when Lady Gaga celebrated the 10-year anniversary of her hit album "Born this Way," she gave an acknowledgment shoutout to Archbishop Carl...
In Memoriam: Jahaira DeAlto
(March 4, 1979–May 2, 2020)
When the devastating news hit the community about Jahaira DeAlto’s murder, ripples of shockwaves reverberated throughout the state and beyond. However, when it was...
TikTok star Rochelle Hager of Maine dies after tree branch falls on car
TikTok star and Waterville, Maine resident Rochelle Hager, known on the platform as "Roe," was killed last week when high winds slammed a large tree branch directly onto her Nissan Rogue as...
Transgender Day of Remembrance to be observed in Boston, on Cape Cod
Every year in November, the Boston transgender and gender nonconforming communities come together to mourn those who have been taken from us due to anti-transgender violence. This tradition began in 1998, with...
