Framingham Schools’ trans-supportive sports policy seen as model for state
Framingham Public Schools has adopted a policy that ensures all students regardless of gender identity can participate on all sport teams. The policy includes guidelines for coaches to ensure appropriate uniforms, locker room facilities—for...
Marblehead school counters trans bullying with professional training
After a transgender student at the Village School in Marblehead was bullied in December, the school, which educates about 700 fourth-to-sixth graders, quickly responded by organizing a professional training session on gender identity and...
Middlebury College student selected as Victory Institute Congressional intern
Mira Vance, a global gender and sexuality studies major with a concentration in Chinese at Middlebury College in Vermont, has been selected as one of six Spring 2023 Victory Congressional interns. Mira's...
Massachusetts Public Schools to offer new LGBT-themed curriculum this fall
Lessons on the 1969 Stonewall riots and writing by Langston Hughes and Willa Cather and other notable LGBT authors are all just part of a new curriculum that includes LGBT-themed history, literature and health...
Northern Light Health in Maine partners with Bangor bookstore to bring LGBTQ titles to...
Northern Light Health, a psychiatric hospital in Bangor, Maine, is partnering with The Briar Patch bookstore, a local Bangor business, to distribute more than 100 LGBTQ books to staff, patients and families,...
Openly LGBTQ NH elementary school teacher placed on leave after parent complains he dresses...
An art teacher at the grades K–5 Christa McAuliffe School in Concord, New Hampshire, has been placed on leave after a parent complained of the teachers "girlie" attire, igniting "a firestorm in...
University of Maine law school gifted 50K in name of LGBT ‘justice warrior’
Portland-based law first Bernstein Shur has gifted the University of Maine School of Law $50,000 in honor of its retiring shareholder and LGBT activist Pat Peard. The money is to be used in Peard's...
Portland, ME school board votes on ‘rooting out homophobia’ in schools
Portland, Maine's Board of Education is scheduled to vote this afternoon on a resolution that would turn a spate of threatening letters into a teaching opportunity.
According to...
Brown University study finds higher rate of lesbian, gay, bisexual adults struggling with health...
A new study by researchers at Brown University School of Public Health, "Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults Report Continued Problems Affording Care Despite Coverage Gains," reveals LGB adults—with insurance and who regularly get check...
OUT Maine awarded $100K to create online LGBTQ educational tools
OUT Maine, the Rockport, Maine–based LGBTQ youth support nonprofit, has been awarded $100,000 to create online educational tools for schools and providers.
Here's what OUT Maine is doing...
