Massachusetts leads New England states with 18 perfect scores on HRC’s 2026 Healthcare Equality Index

Eighteen health care facilities in the Bay State earned perfect-scores, a designation of "Healthcare Equality Leader," on the Human Rights Campaign's 2026 Healthcare Equality...

Massachusetts Governor Healey signs trans, repro health care shield into law

On Aug. 7, Bay State Governor Maura Healey signed into law the Massachusetts Shield Act, which strengthens state protections for transgender and reproductive health...

GLAD Law, ACLU of Rhode Island, RI Center for Justice rebuke Brown U anti-trans agreement with Trump admin.

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law), the Rhode Island Center for Justice, and the ACLU of Rhode Island issued the following statement on...

MA AG Campbell, 15 other state AGs sue Trump admin. to block attack on transgender youth care

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and 15 other state AGs have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect gender-affirming health care for...

Brown U strikes deal with Trump admin. at expense of trans people

Once widely considered the most progressive of Ivy League schools, Brown University announced last week a deal with the Trump administration that "bows to...

New Hampshire bans gender-affirming health care for minors, exempting those already receiving treatment

Last week, New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed into law House Bill 377, which "prohibits health care providers from prescribing puberty blockers and hormone...

Maine Crisis Line picks up after Trump admin. drops national LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline

Calls to the national LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline, which the Trump administration recently shut down, are now being redirected, in Maine, to the Maine...

Boston Children’s affirms commitment to gender-affirming care for youth

Amidst news of the closure of gender-affirming programs across the country, Boston Children's Hospital has released a statement of assurance that they remain fully...

Connecticut Children’s winds down youth gender-affirming care program

Connecticut Children's Medical Center announced last week that it is closing its program that provides gender-affirming care for trans and gender-diverse youth. Reports the CT...

Massachusetts House passes state protections for trans, repro rights

Last week, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a bill to strengthen state protections for access to reproductive and transgender health care. The bill...

Vermont grandpa fined over $16K after protesting transgender youth suicide

After glueing his hand to a railing at the Pennsylvania capitol building in an effort to protest legislators' indifference to trans youth suicide, a...

BAGLY executive director receives Mass. Public Health Alliance top honor

Grace Sterling Stowell — the executive director of Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Youth (BAGLY) and a pioneering activist and leader in...

MA AG Campbell calls on court to protect incarcerated trans people

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell led a coalition of 13 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Jones v. Bondi in...

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Boston’s iconic publications Bay Windows, South End News up for sale

Yesterday, Sue O'Connell and Jeff Coakley, co-publishers of Bay Windows newspaper — so central to Boston's LGBTQ community since the early 1980s — and...

Ballot initiative to repeal transgender rights in Massachusetts appears very close, new poll shows

A new Suffolk University Political Research Center survey shows the ballot initiative aimed at repealing transgender rights in Massachusetts looks to be one of the...

The Changing Nature of Corporate Diversity in New England

Only a few years ago, equal pay for women, job opportunities for people of color, accommodations for the differently abled and antidiscrimination protections for...

GLAD’s Mary Bonauto reflects on 20th anniversary of marriage equality in MA

Twenty years ago today , the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its watershed decision in GLAD’s case Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, making Massachusetts...