‘Let Trans Athletes Play’ day of sports, games and protest held in Cambridge
Last Sunday afternoon, a welcoming and inclusive group gathered in North Cambridge's Mayor Thomas W. Danehy Park to play frisbee, softball and other games from chess to the corn-hole toss and to...
Parent cites trans people, drag queens in deadly threat against VT school
A parent of a student at the Canaan Schools in Vermont has been charged with harassment and issued "an Extreme Risk Protection Order, prohibiting from purchasing or possessing a dangerous weapon...
Efforts back on track to ban youth conversion therapy in Massachusetts
Efforts to make Massachusetts the 16th state in the country to ban conversion therapy got back on track this week with "a crowded, emotional hearing in front the Committee on Children, Families and Persons...
LGBTQ youth-focused health project receives nearly $1 million grant
With a focus on LGBTQ youth, the Positive Pathways Project of Needham, Massachusetts–based JRI Heath is receiving nearly $1 million from the federal government to support its work to help Suffolk County...
Dunkin’ foundation helps fund food programs for LGBTQ youth in need
Canton, Mass.–based Dunkin's Joy in Childhood Foundation is distributing six grants to community nonprofits committed to helping LGBTQ+ youth across the US. One of the Dunkin' grant recipients is Fenway Health, the...
Outgoing AG Healey issues first-ever mental health and gender-affirming care resource guide for LGBTQ+...
On her final day as Bay State Attorney General before taking office as Massachusetts Governor, Maura Healey yesterday issued her office’s first-ever “Mental Health and Gender-Affirming Care Resource Guide for Massachusetts LGBTQ2IA+...
Rhode Island senate approves bill banning conversion therapy
The Rhode Island Senate last night voted 31–1 to pass a bill, sponsored by Senator Donna Nesselbush, to prohibit licensed mental health providers from using the discredited and harmful practice on children and adolescents....
LGBTQ youth in rural Maine see growing support through efforts like Mount Desert Island...
It's almost impossible to know what life is like elsewhere unless we experience it ourselves, or at least hear about it on the news. Take a story in the Bangor Daily News, for example....
Biden admin. withdraws from federal case against trans high school athletes
The Biden administration has withdrawn federal support from a lawsuit filed by the families of three Connecticut high school girls to block transgender athletes from competing in high school girls sports.
Mass. Commission on LGBTQ Youth condemns Texas governor’s attack on trans, nonbinary kids and...
In a recent press release, the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth "unequivocally condemns Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s politically motivated attack on transgender, nonbinary and gender-expansive children and their families."