Education

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...

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...

When approximately 300 Needham High School students walked out of classes last Friday, December 8, over recent incidents of racist and anti-LGBT graffiti, their principal, Aaron Sicotte let them know they had his full...

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...

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...

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...

Vermont's state legislature is made up of 40% women—the highest representation than any other US state except Colorado. However there are far fewer women serving at the town level. So a new program, Emerge...