University of Vermont earns top scores on Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly List
The University of Vermont received a top-ranking five-star score on Campus Pride's 2023 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly List, announced on September 1. Campus Pride rates LGBTQ policies, programs and practices at...
Harvard Law instructor repeatedly cc’d on anti-LGBTQ, -trans bomb threats
Harvard Law School instructor and civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law's Cyberlaw Clinic, has been cc'd on some three dozen emails containing bomb threats this year. Caraballo,...
Parent of trans youth who first reported bullying in Amherst schools optimistic about investigation
Earlier this year, Maxine Oland, the parent of a transgender student in the Amherst, Massachusetts Regional Public Schools, called out a systemic pattern of anti-trans behavior after her child was "bullied to...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Hall of Shame: A cause for concern, a call to action
It’s no secret that anti-LGBTQ+ animus has been ramping up all over the country. Conservative state legislatures are working at breakneck speed to pass legislation aimed at preventing many of the most...
‘Really proud moment’: Massachusetts’ openly gay public health commissioner donates blood for first time
Thanks to the Food and Drug Administration’s new guidelines that allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood, which the American Red Cross put into practice earlier this month, Massachusetts Department of...
‘A win for Boston’: City removes gender markers from marriage certificates
Boston has stopped printing gender markers on all marriage certificates issued by the city and is implementing new guidelines and standards for city departments to "support individuals whose gender and sexual identities...
OUT Maine scholarship program awards $31K to three college students
The folks at the nonprofit LGBTQ+ youth advocacy nonprofit OUT Maine say they are thrilled to announce the award of scholarships totaling $31,000 to three outstanding young people to help them better...
Openly gay, LGBTQ-supportive Marblehead Schools superintendent forced to resign
John Buckley, the openly gay, now-former superintendent of Marblehead Public Schools, was pushed out of his job on Aug. 2 with no apparent reason given. But his support of LGBTQ+ and Diversity,...
Love Your Labels’ ‘Queer AF: Art+Fashion Show’ returns on Sept. 8
This article appears in the September/October 2023 print issue of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.
They call it “the Queer Met Gala of Massachusetts."
And...
Protest against Worcester Diocese’s anti-LGBTQ school policy held tonight
A protest against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester's recently announced anti-LGBTQ school policy will take place this evening, Wed., Aug. 23, at the Diocese Chancery on the corner of Elm and...
