President Biden awards openly gay poet Richard Blanco of Bethel, Maine with National Humanities...
Richard Blanco of Bethel, Maine received the National Humanities Medal from President Joe Biden at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 21. He was chosen with...
ACLU, GLAD urge Massachusetts schools to reject calls for book bans
The ACLU and the Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) have sent a letter urging Massachusetts public school districts to protect students’ legal rights by rejecting censorship in school libraries. The...
MassEquality to host banned book fair and drag queen story hour, Sat. Oct. 22
MassEquality, the Bay State-wide grassroots LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, will host a Drag Queen Story Hour and Banned Book Fair from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 22, in Boston at Copley...
Maine school board votes against banning a second LGBTQ-inclusive book from school library
For the second time in a month, the Bonny Eagle district school board has voted in favor of keeping an LGBTQ-inclusive book in the school library. Both votes took place at packed...
Maine school board votes to keep LGBTQ-inclusive sex ed book in library
At a recent meeting, the Bonny Eagle district school board voted in favor of keeping an LGBTQ-inclusive sex education book on its library shelves.
“In my evaluation about...
Tales of Hoffman: Amy Hoffman’s latest novel is a humorous portrait of an aging...
Author Amy Hoffman says her second novel, “Dot and Ralfie,” isn’t autobiographical. But while writing her gently comic tale of a longtime lesbian couple now in their late 60s, Hoffman realized there...
Maine lit. group to provide students with banned memoir ‘Gender Queer’
Despite their recent review committee's unanimous approval of the award-winning memoir "Gender Queer: A Memoir," by Maia Kobabe, Maine's Regional School Unit 56 school board decided in a 7-2 vote to pull...
Police identify person who took books from Little Queer Library in Waltham
Police have identified and spoken with the person who ransacked and removed all the books from an LGBTQ-themed Little Free Library, in Waltham, Massachusetts, according to a New England Cable News report. The...
Melissa Etheridge: A new tour, book & album of previously unreleased songs
Even the biggest legends in the music business can still hide a few surprises up their sleeves.
Just look at Melissa Etheridge, a bona...
Little Queer Library in Waltham ransacked again—but witnessed
The LGBTQ-themed Little Free Library in Waltham, Mass., has been ransacked again. But this time, say the women who manage it, there was a witness in addition to video of the person who took...
