Make your voice heard on Sexual Health Lobby Day at Mass. State House
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...
LGBT Executive Networking Night with Kathy Griffin
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.
Boston Women’s March for America inclusive of LGBTQIA
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...
Don’t forget the bona fide milestones and other progressive moments of 2016
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...
Natick residents supporting lesbian neighbors named Bostonians of the Year
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...
Six LGBT organizations share brand new space in Maine Equality Center
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...
Troubling Tide of Post-Election Bigotry Reaches Mayor’s Desk
"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,...
All 15 MassEquality-endorsed incumbents reelected, joining Cyr & Lewis on Beacon Hill
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...
HRC President Chad Griffin post-election: ‘We don’t slow down, We double down’
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...
Rhode Island Newsmakers: LGBT Rights & the Church, the Real Law & Order Party,...
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...