Boston Pride Hockey launches New England’s first LGBTQ+ hockey league
This just in from Boston Pride Hockey — Boston Pride Hockey (BPH), New England’s nonprofit LGBTQ+ hockey organization, has launched the BPH Inclusive Hockey League (IHL) — the first-ever LGBTQ+ hockey league in...
Why Shut Down Boston Pride? Racism is not the only reason for the closure
On July 9, the news of the Boston Pride Board dissolving with no transfer of power sent shockwaves through the LGBTQ community. The board’s president, Linda DeMarco, had assured the community that...
Stories of our inheritance: Boston’s LGBT Elders of Color
On September 8, the LGBT Elders of Color, a program of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition (MAC), hosted an evening of live storytelling called “Stories of our Inheritance:...
Community Servings’ Pie in the Sky bake sale returns for its 29th year
Every holiday season since 1993, the Boston-based, statewide nonprofit Community Servings has hosted its annual Pie in the Sky campaign. It began as a community bake sale that helped fund the preparation...
GLAD Legal Briefs: Urgent action needed for LGBTQ youth in the MA child welfare...
There is increasing understanding among those who advocate for children that structural biases embedded in the child welfare system hurt youth and families, and that these harms fall...
Then and now: Part II, Now it’s Gabi’s time to live: Transitioning at 60
Gabi Morgan, 65, from Jamaica Plain is becoming a fixture not only in her own community of JP but also with older trans and gender diverse adults...
GLAD Legal Briefs: Discrimination in Jury Service and Selection is an LGBTQ Justice Issue
A fundamental premise of our criminal justice system is that defendants have a right to a fair trial, including the right to be heard by a jury of...
In Memoriam: Jahaira DeAlto
(March 4, 1979–May 2, 2020)
When the devastating news hit the community about Jahaira DeAlto’s murder, ripples of shockwaves reverberated throughout the state and beyond. However, when it was...
Then and now: Part I, David’s story, transitioning in the 1970s
“There was no word for it, no language, no history, no information, no support systems and no role models.” This is how David Weekley, 70, from Hull, describes...
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...
