Op/Ed: ‘Boston’s LGBTQ+ community wants to hear from Kamala Harris’
Since running for office, Kamala Harris’s silence on LGBTQ+ issues has been deafening. Kamala’s website has one sentence about us under the heading “Protect Civil Rights and Freedoms: “As President, she’ll fight...
Meet Ricardo Martinez, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defender’s new executive director
Ricardo Martinez took the helm as Executive Director of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) September 4.
Ricardo served the past five years as...
Lesbian, nonbinary ‘Dani’s Queer Bar’ officially opens in Boston’s Back Bay
It's official! Dani's Queer Bar — a welcoming new space geared toward lesbians and nonbinary people — opened last Thursday, September 12, at 909 Boylston St. (across from Hynes Convention Center) in...
Bridgeport, Connecticut’s first LGBTQ+ community center officially opens
Bridgeport, Connecticut, got its first LGBTQ+ center with the grand opening of The Bridgeport Pride Center in June, with State Rep. Marcus Brown serving as the Center’s interim executive director.
GLAD: The Growing Need to Protect Access to Health Care
Doctors who care for transgender youth follow well-established standards developed through decades of clinical study. It is developmentally appropriate treatment requiring informed consent of parents, informed assent...
Boston Foundation’s Equality Fund awards $372,500 to LGBTQ nonprofits
The Equality Fund at the Boston Foundation announced $372,500 in grants to 31 LGBTQ-led or LGBTQ-serving organizations in Massachusetts. The nonprofits were chosen from among 89 applicants, also a new record for the...
Op/Ed: United Methodist Church now open to LGBTQ+ Methodists
Earlier this month, United Methodist Church delegates voted to repeal its church's long-held exclusionary stance of its LGBTQ Methodists — meaning, church doctrine, polity, and social standing.
The news...
Prides Across New England 2024: Boston Spirit’s annual list of festivities
Raising the rainbow flag in small towns, big cities & everywhere in between
In the words of a recently spotted slogan at a local pre-Pride event, "Love Is Our Superpower."
What could better sum up the...
GLAD commends clarification on LGBTQ+ health care protections
The Biden Administration last week reinstated health care protections under the Affordable Care Act, which had been rescinded under the Trump administration, and issued a clarification making it clear that the ACA's...
GLAD: What’s on the horizon in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality?
What’s on the horizon in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality?
As we begin the search for GLAD’s next executive director, we asked staff and...
