Registration underway for 32nd annual AIDS Walk & 5K Run Boston
Mark your calendars and get out those comfy walking or running shoes. The 32nd annual AIDS Walk & Run Boston takes place on Sunday, June 4. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell...
Major CDC grant expands HIV prevention services in Lowell & Boston
Boston and Lowell are two cities with the highest average number of HIV infection diagnoses in the Bay State, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Recognizing the need for greater prevention services, the CDC...
VA Boston recognized as leader in LGBTQ healthcare
Earning a perfect score, VA Boston Healthcare System picked up a "Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality" designation from the Human Rights Campaign. HRC announced the results in its 10th edition of its "Healthcare Equality Index,"...
Mass Medical Society honors doctor for major work in trans health
While the national debate over whether healthcare should truly be available to everyone rages on, many in the medical community are busy working to establish and enhance what healthcare for everyone truly means.
Example: the Massachusetts Medical...
Anti-conversion therapy bill brings Rhode Island closer to statewide ban
If the Prevention of Conversion Therapy for Children Act is passed, licensed medical practitioners would be prohibited from practicing "a range of dangerous and discredited practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or...
Ann Maguire honoree, DeLaria to perform at Fenway Dinner Party
Tireless advocate for women, health care and community, Ann Maguire has been named the recipient of Fenway Health's Susan M. Love Award, which will be presented at its 26th annual Fenway Health Dinner Party on...
Hat Sisters named Men’s Event award honorees
Fenway Health is presenting its prestigious Studds Award to Hat Sisters Tim O’Connor and the late John Michael Gray at its 2017 Men's Event, which takes place from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, March 11 at the...
Make your voice heard on Sexual Health Lobby Day at Mass. State House
The defense and expansion of fact-based and LGBTQ-inclusive sex education, reproductive justice and access to health services are under attack from the new federal administration, says Janson Wu, executive director of GLAD in a...
AIDS survivor’s story: A black lesbian’s struggle for answers
In the early 1980s, Shirley Royster, an African American lesbian, knew something was wrong. She saw people in the black community dying at an alarming rate. For six years, Royster had been a drug...
MassEquality greets 2017 with six-point LGBT-rights agenda
2017 is here, and the fight for LGBT civil rights — both in terms of progress and saving basic, hard-fought civil rights — is on.
For the Bay State, MassEquality has put forth its six-point agenda for the New...
