Mass. Trans Political Coalition receives $100K grant for leadership academy
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition has received a $100,000 Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant from the Mass. Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. The funds will support MTPC's Trans Leadership Academy....
The Changing Nature of Corporate Diversity in New England
Only a few years ago, equal pay for women, job opportunities for people of color, accommodations for the differently abled and antidiscrimination protections for all marginalized groups were front-and-center issues in the struggle for...
29 New England corps rated ‘Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality’ in 2016...
Twenty-nine New England-based corporations received perfect scores of 100 percent on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index, the national benchmarking survey and report administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, which calls its top-score winners "The Best Places...
GLAD files employment discrimination case on behalf of trans worker in NH
This just in from GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD):
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has filed an employment discrimination case on behalf of a transgender woman challenging her...
Club Café to require proof of COVID vax before admission, starting Aug. 16
Boston's Club Café is one of the first club's in town to announce they'll start requiring patrons to show their COVID-19 vaccination card at the door. This new admission requirement will begin...
Eastern Bank launches Equity Alliance for Business program to advance underrepresented business owners
Boston-based Eastern Bank — with its more than 120 locations serving communities in eastern Massachusetts, southern and coastal New Hampshire, and Rhode Island — is announcing today the launch of Equity Alliance...
Out Professional Executive Networking Event
Empire Restaurant & Lounge | Boston | February 23, 2016
Over 170 LGBT business people gathered at Out Professional Executive Networking’s (OPEN) February meet-up, where Freedom Massachusetts Field Director Jeanmarie Gossard delivered an empowering speech...
Portland Maine’s only LGBTQ bar launches funds-drive to survive
It's a story all too familiar in the era of COVID-19. Blackstones — which opened 33 years ago in Portland, Maine, and is now the one remaining LGBTQ bar in the city...
Fast food chain with homophobic record to open site at Copley Square
Chick-fil-A — the Georgia-based fast-food chain whose chief operating officer Dan Cathy has donated millions of dollars to anti-marriage equality organizations through the company’s charitable foundation — announced it's opening a Boston...
Cape Cod business owners give employees a ‘day of kindness’ in response to rude...
Brandi Felt Castellano and her spouse Regina, owners of a Cape Cod restaurant, recently shut down their business to give their employees a "day of kindness" in response to a disturbing uptick...
