Vermont Reads program focuses on LGBTQ youth for its 2021 selection
The Vermont Humanities Council has selected the LGBTQ young adult novel "We Contain Multitudes" for its Vermont Reads program's book selection of 2021.
Partnering with schools, libraries and...
Maine high-school junior receives national student-advocacy award
Savannah Green, a 16-year-old junior at Gardiner Area High School in Maine, is one of four students nationwide to receive the GLSEN's Student Advocate of the Year Award.
The award "honors an outstanding young person who...
Outright Vermont draws hundreds to 2019 Queer and Allied Youth Summit
More than 250 youth and school staff advisors from 50 middle and high schools from 72 towns across Vermont participated in the 13th annual Queer and Allied Youth Summit held on Saturday and Sunday,...
OUT Maine launches online professional development portal
This just in from OUT Maine: Thanks to generous donations from Jane’s Trust and You Have Our Trust Fund, OUT Maine has converted several of its in-person trainings to online, self-paced, engaging...
Gordon College faculty senate resigns over school’s anti-LGBT policy
At Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, no one is permitted to come out of the closet — not students, not staff and not faculty. "Homosexual practices," both on and off campus, are forbidden.
Last Wednesday, all...
LGBTQ youth in rural Maine see growing support through efforts like Mount Desert Island...
It's almost impossible to know what life is like elsewhere unless we experience it ourselves, or at least hear about it on the news. Take a story in the Bangor Daily News, for example....
Mass. Trans Political Coalition receives $100K grant for leadership academy
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition has received a $100,000 Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant from the Mass. Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. The funds will support MTPC's Trans Leadership Academy....
Princetown Review ranks New England colleges among most LGBT friendly
New England colleges and universities placed three out of the top five on The Princeton Review's newly unfurled most LGBTQ-friendly schools list in its "The 382 Best Colleges" book, released today.
The College of the Atlantic...
Reps. Clark and Pappas introduce bill to block US discriminatory policy against LGBT college...
Vice Chair of the US House Democratic Caucus Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Congressman Chris Pappas of New Hampshire have introduced legislation to block a proposal by the Department of Education to allow colleges...
RI Congressman David Cicilline leads opposition to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills
Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chair David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Vice Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida led 27 of their colleagues in a letter of opposition against two Florida state...
