Community Servings’ Thanksgiving pie sale prevails through pandemic
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, the Boston nonprofit Community Servings is making it easier than ever to put a pie on everyone's table — especially welcome news in this holiday season...
LPAC, EMILY’s List endorse Rebecca Perkins Kwoka for Granite State Senate
New Hampshire State Senate candidate Rebecca Perkins Kwoka has become the first to receive endorsements from national organizations in her district, which encompasses Durham, Lee, Madbury, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket and Portsmouth.
The geopolitics of being Brittney Griner: Where is the LGBTQ+ support?
WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was arrested a week before Russia invaded Ukraine.
On February 17, the Russian Federal Customs Service detained Griner at Sheremetyevo International Airport for allegedly...
Owner of Teetotaller Cafe in NH wins court case against social media giant
When the social media giant Meta deleted Emmett Soldati's Instagram account for his small cafe Teatotaller — a hotspot for the LGBTQ community then in Somersworth, New Hampshire and now with locations...
Vermont leads growing LGBTQ rural population across US, report shows
LGBTQ people are breaking the queer-equals-urban-only stereotype all over the US, from Montana ranchers to Green Mountaineers, and Vermont is leading the way. This according to a new report from the Movement Advance Project,...
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus faces LA Gay Men’s Chorus in Super Bowl challenge
As the New England Patriots and the region gear up for the Super Bowl this Sunday against the LA Rams, the Boston Gay Men's Chorus has challenged its West Coast counterpart to a super vocal...
Promoting her platform of LGBTQ youth safety, 5th grader Ella Briggs elected Connecticut’s Kid...
Running on a platform of LGBTQ Youth Safety, fifth-grader Ella Briggs has been elected the 2019 Kid Governor of Connecticut. Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill announced the results last week in a special...
Gail Horowitz, pioneering legal advocate who ensured MassHealth benefits for same sex couples, dies
Gail Horowitz, the Massachusetts attorney and pioneering LGBTQ legal advocate instrumental in ensuring equal protections for same-sex couples under MassHealth after the state legalized same-sex marriage, died on May 1. The Boston Globe remembered...
Providence city councilor resigns leadership position after anti-trans remarks revealed on recording
Providence City Councilor Michael Correia gave up his leadership position last week as president pro tempore after a recording went public in which he'd made a number of anti-transgender remarks about a...
Maine Gov. LePage seeks to legalize anti-LGBT workplace discrimination
Outgoing Maine Governor Paul LePage fired another parting shot at the LGBT community by asking the US Supreme Court to rule that companies can fire workers based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Earlier this...