Speaking out against bullying, gay high school senior harassed at Franklin, MA school committee...
An openly gay high school senior speaking out against homophobic harassment and bullying was herself harassed by a member of the audience at a school committee meeting in Franklin, Massachusetts last week....
Boston College under pressure to create an LGBTQ+ student center
In the wake of Boston University administration's recent announcement of their new, professionally staffed LGBTQIA+ student resource center as a first step to becoming more proactively inclusive, attention has returned to calls...
Boston University panel finds rising domestic abuse among LGBTQ people
Domestic violence during the physically distanced isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the LGBTQ community especially hard, said a virtual panel of experts at a recent Boston University forum. (You can...
NH gov. vows to veto bill that would force teachers to out students
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has pledged to veto legislation, recently passed by the state’s senate, that would force teachers to out LGBTQ students to their parents, even when the news could...
Dean College to bring portion of AIDS Memorial Quilt to Franklin, MA campus
Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts is bringing a portion of the AIDS Memorial Quilt onto its campus on Nov. 14 and 15 as part of an educational program around its School for...
OUT Maine initiates Read the Rainbow campaign, sends books to 43 schools
This past fall, OUT Maine’s Executive Director Jeanne Dooley had a flash of inspiration. What if school libraries had more inclusive books available to their students? OUT Maine, an organization that serves...
SCOTUS denies MA religious college’s appeal to exemption from anti-bias law
The US Supreme Court yesterday declined to take up an appeal by Gordon College, which sought to overturn a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court finding against the Wenham, Mass.-based Christian school. At issue...
UMaine’s Rainbow Resource Center is still providing support and resources to LGBTQ students online
Its annual drag show in April may be canceled, but the University of Maine's Rainbow Resource Center is still providing support and resources for all U of M students via social media...
Mass. SJC to hear Gordon College’s LGBTQ workplace discrimination case
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear the claim of a Christian college in Wenham, Mass. that maintains it has the right on religious grounds to withhold from a longtime instructor a...
Tufts athletics community forms group for LGBTQ+ and ally student-athletes
The athletics community at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. has officially formed a chapter of Athlete Ally, "a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the advocacy for LGBTQIA+ student-athletes," according to Tufts University...
