Boston’s Hispanic Black Gay Coalition Welcomes New Youth Leader to its Team
The Boston-based Hispanic Black Gay Coalition has a new leader on its team.
In a recent posting on the HBGC’s community blog, the organization welcomed Bryce J. Celotto, an accomplished 23-year-old student activist, and announced his role in...
Boston’s 2020 AIDS Walk and Run marches on, virtually, on October 18
This year's AIDS Walk & Run in Boston, originally scheduled to be held back in early June, had been indefinitely postponed until this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now it's officially...
Kathy Najimy named Grand Marshall for Provincetown’s 2015 Carnival Parade
Screen and stage star Kathy Najimy will be adding her zany spin to what's already well-established as the wackiest week in P'town when she'll serve as Grand Marshall for the 39th annual Provincetown Carnival Parade on...
After 28 years, Blackstone’s replaces vandalized windows in popular Portland, Maine bar
"Portland is a more welcoming place for the LGBTQ community today than it was 30 years ago."
So tweeted the Bangor Daily News last week, and to prove this assertion the BDN pointed to Blackstone's,...
Transgender Awareness Month offers great time to become better allies in the community
November is Transgender Awareness Month and Fenway Health is celebrating the great strides made over the past year for the transgender and gender non-conforming community towards visibility and equality. A recent Fenway Focus posting notes:
TV stars like...
Boston University students, faculty blaze LGBT freedom trail
There may be no trail of rainbow-colored bricks commemorating Boston's LGBT history—at least not yet—but a group of Boston University faculty and students embarked on their own walking tour, traversing the footsteps of homoerotic...
Prides Across New England
One year ago, heading into Pride season, the question was, would coronavirus cancel everything? LGBTQ New Englanders answered that with creativity and resiliency. Online programming. Socially distanced live events like flag-raisings and...
MassEquality welcomes Tanya Neslusan as new executive director
MassEquality today welcomes Tanya Neslusan, "an experienced political and social justice leader and life-long resident of Central Massachusetts," as the new executive director for the Bay State grassroots LGBTQ advocacy organization.
“Tanya has an impressive set...
Fenway Health’s Dr. Judith Bradford to receive Love award at annual Women’s Dinner Party
Its organizers call it New England's "biggest night on the town for lesbian and bi women, trans people and our allies." And rightly so. The annual Women's Dinner Party is an "elegant attire" fête de...
Groundbreaking LGBT Domestic violence program to dissolve at end of 2015
The GLBTQ Domestic Violence Project — an organization that for 22 years has been at the forefront of creating support services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault where there had been few to...
