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...
Kristen Porter named LGBTQ Senior Housing’s new gerontology advisor
With plans well underway to transform Hyde Park's former William Barton Rogers Middle School into New England's first apartment building geared for LGBTQ Seniors, LGBTQ Senior Housing is staffing up.
Chic Full Gay in Vermont serves up tasty alternative to homophobia
The concept's as brilliant as it's delicious. "Chic Full Gay," a Burlington, Vermont pop-up is serving a tasty alternative (with tasteful sides and sweets) to those chicken sandwiches at Chick-fil-A — the...
Massachusetts leads region again on HRC’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index
Massachusetts is the New England state with the most corporations earning a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index.
Forty-eight Bay State–based corporations...
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...
USA TODAY names LGBT-owned Rhode Island Spirits as #3 Best Craft Distillery
Rhode Island Spirits, makers of Rhodium brand gins, vodkas and liqueurs, is a winner in the 2020 USA TODAY 10 Best Readers' Choice travel award contest for Best New Craft Distillery.
Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Billy Porter joins Huntington theater board
Billy Porter, the openly gay Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning performer and current star of the hit TV series "Pose" — for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in...
Queer folks to deliver fresh produce to supporters from their Bay State farm
Sagan Gray runs a farm. They raise chickens. They harvest tomatoes, squashes and cucumbers. What they are most interested in growing, though, is a sense of community.
Gay-owned Dorchester Brewing Company keeps business going with grab-and-go brews and bites
The Dorchester Brewing Company has been brewing something more than beer over the last several months. The gay-owned beer company, like the neighborhood from which it borrows...
