Business

Out In Maine, a new website connecting Maine's LGBTQ community to gay-friendly businesses, social events and other resources statewide, is officially online. "For three years it's been will it get done, will I have enough,...

Both the Bay State's leading trade association and leading association of small business joined the long list of supporters of the Yes on 3 ballot question campaign—the bipartisan coalition working so hard to uphold...

A record-breaking 41 major companies and law firms in Massachusetts earned perfect "100 percent" scores in the 2018 Corporate Equality Index, released November 9, 2017, by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The average score for...

Boston | Small Business Administration | February 17, 2016 Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito joined representatives from the Boston district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce...

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...

(Editor’s note: This article appears in the current May/June 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.) Nothing endures but change—it’s one of those ancient phrases uttered by Greek philosophers that still...

Here's the first week of February's LGBT Business Report: a weekly round-up of news of consequence to the LGBT business professional community. This week in: NEWS: Italian LGBT media awards / Rainbow shoelaces for Manchester United soccer team...

This week's round-up of news of consequence to the queer professional community: missives from The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Dot Gay, Grindr, Rentboy, and Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan. FAA removes “disorder” label from transgender pilots First, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

Something interesting happened on the way to marriage equality. It was businesses who quietly led the way. It’s all well and good to praise Obergefell and Goodridge and Mary Bonauto and all those civil rights heros. But...

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...