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...
Edith Windsor, whose SCOTUS case won marriage equality for all, dies at 88
No doubt we'll be celebrating her life in New England as well as in her home state New York. In fact, everyone in the country who supports marriage equality will be celebrating the life...
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...
Remembering night life impresario, community leader Chris Harris
Chris Harris lit up the night.
If you came out or came of age in New England’s gay nightlife post-2000, you probably partied at one of the many vibrant events conceived by Chris Harris Presents,...
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...
Portsmouth, Maine, remembers murder and legacy of Charlie Howard
Thirty-five years after three teenagers in Bangor, Maine, killed Portsmouth native Charlie Howard for being gay, the city of Portsmouth is planning to honor him with a remembrance bench. The permanent memorial comes after a...
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...
2020 World AIDS Day Celebration (virtual) / December 1, 2020
COVID-19 is hardly the first time that the federal government has fumbled its response to a deadly pandemic out of willful ignorance. See: the devastation wrought by the AIDS crisis, especially as...
Nonbinary Harvard Kennedy School student praises late Ash Carter for overturning trans military ban
In a recent Boston Globe Opinion piece, Grace Park, a Belfer Young Leader Student Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, looks back at how former US Secretary of Defense Ash...
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...
