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In October I was asked to represent Fenway Health, The LGBT Aging Project and the city of Boston as a keynote speaker for a national conference on LGBTI Aging in Australia. This included being...

It’s one of the brightest spots of the holiday season in Boston.  Toys4Joys provides thousands of toys to underprivileged teens and children in need of some holiday cheer. T4J annually delights attendees as well, and...

Rick Koonce knows about the power of sharing one’s story. Three decades ago, the New York Times interviewed him and his partner about a new trend: openly gay...

As we head into the fall, each of us must join the fight for justice and our democracy.  This June, the US Supreme Court eviscerated a half-century-old precedent protecting...

The vote was unanimous when Boston's City Council voted last week to support a resolution that recognizes March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility, observed around the world and now, officially, in...

Maine is the most recent state to allow gay marriage, and the first in the nation to have the law approved by a majority of voters at the polls. Following the passage of the gay marriage law, many in the state have wondered: “What’s next?” After all, marriage is the default panacea of gay rights, and Maine ranks in the top ten states in the nation for gay-friendly laws. Another distinction? Maine has the oldest population in the U.S. with more than 300,000 elders age 60 and over. It is estimated that 15,000 of them are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. For many, the reality of old age comes, hits when one is faced with the reality of what it means to be senior.

The 2016 recipients of the Boston Pride Fund grant recipients comprise a rainbow of diverse small nonprofits and other groups that support New England's LGBT community. Awardees were announced early this week by Boston Pride President Sylvain Bruni and...

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...

“Because we are an iconic, award-winning LGBTQ destination, most people think of Provincetown as celebrating Pride all year long," says Robin Lapidus, executive director of the Provincetown Business Guild. "But we felt strongly that we...

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...