Pappas urges Senate to remove limits on trans care for minors from military funding...
US Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire — the openly gay Congressman, co-chair of the LGBTQ+ Congressional Equality Caucus and strong supporter of LGBTQ+ rights — recently voted for the National Defense...
Open Sky of Central Mass. nationally recognized for Safe Homes program
Open Sky Community Services, a nonprofit behavioral health and human services organization, today announced that its Safe Homes program received the 2024 Community Activism Award by the National Organization for Human Services (NOHS). ...
A message of support to community from Bay State-based Fenway Health
In the wake of the recent US general election, the executive director of the Boston-based Fenway Health, one of the country’s leading care and research centers for LGBTQIA+ people, delivered the following...
Dallas Ducar joins Fenway Health as new executive vice president for donor and external...
Dallas Ducar, the founding CEO of Transhealth, will be the new executive vice president for donor engagement and external relations at Fenway Health, one of the country’s leading care and research centers...
Fenway Health praises MA House and Senate for passing LGBTQ+ long-term care bill of...
Fenway Health and other LGBTQ+ aging advocates commend the Massachusetts House and Senate for including language enumerating protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) older adults and older people living...
GLAD: The Growing Need to Protect Access to Health Care
Doctors who care for transgender youth follow well-established standards developed through decades of clinical study. It is developmentally appropriate treatment requiring informed consent of parents, informed assent...
Rhode Island advances HIV prevention with ‘game-changing’ PrEP access law
In June the Rhode Island legislature passed, and Governor McKee signed, a law that will mean fewer people will get HIV. “An Act Relating To Insurance – Accident And Sickness Insurance Policies –...
US Sen. Markey (MA) introduces bill to support older LGBTQ+ Americans
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, last week introduced the Elder Pride Act, legislation to support LGBTQI+ older adults and older...
RI legislature passes bill to safeguard access to trans, repro heath care
Health care providers and advocates for health care access, reproductive health, and LGBTQ+ equality praised the RI Legislature’s final passage of the “Health Care Provider Shield Act,” (S2262 Sub B, HB757 Sub...
Boston-based Fenway Health appoints Jordina Shanks new CEO
The Fenway Health Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that it has hired Jordina Shanks as Fenway Health’s next CEO. Shanks has been serving as Fenway Health’s Interim CEO since March....
