Stephan Hengst takes helm as new Provincetown Business Guild director
The Provincetown Business Guild — the nonprofit promoting and supporting P'town's LGBTQ business community and host of Carnival and other popular events year-round — has a new executive director: Stephan Hengst, who officially...
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...
Mass. LGBT Chamber of Commerce expands into Western part of state
The Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce held a press conference last week in Easthampton announcing the staffing of their new office at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley. It's part of the...
Transhealth Northampton hits 500 patient milestone faster than planned
Transhealth Northampton — the independent, comprehensive, trans-led and gender-affirming healthcare center in Northampton, Mass. — hit its 500 patient milestone this week, just six months after its official launch — a full two...
Boston Mayor Janey signs historic inclusion of LGBTQ-owned businesses into city’s supplier diversity program
Mayor Kim Janey this week signed a historic executive order to include LGBTQ+-owned businesses into the city’s supplier diversity program.
The program creates fair and equitable access to City contracting...
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...
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...
Historic mill becomes home to CT LGBTQ-owned wedding planners
Drew M. Angelo, director of operations and co-owner of Historic Events & Banquets, told the Hartford Courant his business will set LGBTQA couples at ease.
“A lot of...
Boston Business Journal announces 2021 corporate allies, LGBT trailblazers
Boston Business Journal's 2021 Corporate Ally Awards go to Biogen and John Hancock "for their longstanding commitments to Greater Boston's LGBT community." And receiving the Journal's LGBT Trailblazer Awards are Josiane Martinez,...
City of Boston launches $2.5 million promotional drive focusing on diversity
The City of Boston has just launched a new, $2.5 million campaign to promote local Latinx-, LGBTQ- and Black-owned businesses.
"All-Inclusive Boston" aims to do the double duty...
