Dishing up desserts for the 32nd year, Community Servings’ Pie in the Sky fundraiser...
Pie in the Sky, Community Servings’ annual Thanksgiving fundraising bake sale, is back for its 32nd year, dishing up delicious pies whose proceeds support folks across Massachusetts and Rhode Island impacted by...
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...
