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The defense and expansion of fact-based and LGBTQ-inclusive sex education, reproductive justice and access to health services are under attack from the new federal administration, says Janson Wu, executive director of GLAD in a...

Boston Spirit magazine is pleased to announce our eleventh annual LGBT Executive Networking Night. On Wednesday, April 26, 2017, LGBT corporate professionals from Greater Boston (and beyond) will gather at the Marriott Boston Copley Place Ballroom from 6-9:00 pm. for an unprecedented evening of networking and business conversation. Highlights of the evening include featured speaker, Kathy Griffin.

Its organizers want you to know that the Boston Women’s March for America on Saturday, January 21, is for everyone. Women, immigrants, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQIA, "all of us." And according...

Before we cry "annus horribilis!" of 2016, we at Boston Spirit would like to take a minute to remember a few of its bona fide milestones and other progressive moments as we ring in 2017. Here...

It's the kind of story that shows what the "A" in LGBTQA is all about — for the neighbors of Natick lesbian couple Cari and Lauri Ryding are true allies. When the couple returned home from...

The Equality Community Center in Portland, Maine rolled out the red carpet with a grand opening party Friday, evening, December 1. In the 3,000-square-foot facility, six LGBT organizations share the space, including EqualityMaine, Pride...

"I know that the good always always outweighs the bad," wrote openly gay Mayor Alex Morse of Holyoke, Massachusetts, on his Facebook page after receiving a homophobic and threatening message earlier this week. And yet,...

Hours after Hillary Clinton delivered her speech conceding the White House to the GOP nominee, Deborah Shields executive director of MassEquality, offered the following words to our LGBTQ community and allies: Today, we are all dealing...

Immediately following the calling of the 2016 election last night, Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin issued the following statement: “Throughout our nation’s history, we’ve faced devastating setbacks in our pursuit of a more perfect...

Reported by Kim Harris Stowell, Boston Spirit contributing writer (Editor’s note: This article appears in the November/December 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.) Openly Gay W. Warwick Pastor Ordained Bishop by Independent Catholic Church...