Provincetown updates guidelines in response to increase in COVID cases
This week, Provincetown officials updated their public health guidelines in response to a recent uptick in COVID-19 cases as summer crowds returned. The new advisements include:
The unvaccinated, including...
Leading Maine lawmakers support LGBTQ youth in Trevor Project video
Leading Maine lawmakers — including US Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, US Congressman Jared Golden and US Senators Angus King and Susan Collins — have teamed up in a Trevor Project video to support...
2021 Harbor to the Bay biking benefit kicks off with a virtual event tonight
Harbor to the Bay's 19th Boston-to-Provincetown biking benefit kicks off with a free, online event this evening, Wednesday, May 19, at 7 p.m.
The annual H2B ride benefits four...
Study shows stigma, discrimination are main reasons for ‘detransition’
A new study, coauthored by researchers at Boston's Fenway Institute and Harvard Medical School at Mass. General Hospital, found that 13.1 percent of people who currently identify as transgender have "detransitioned" at...
Dr. Fauci to be special guest at Fenway Health’s virtual 50th gala celebration
Don your best black tie (or satin pajamas!) and settle in with your screen to celebrate Boston's own Fenway Health at their 50th anniversary virtual gala. While COVID-19 precludes gathering for the...
Bill to let young adults access HIV prevention and treatment filed in MA
Massachusetts State Reps. Jack Patrick Lewis and Chynah Tyler along with State Sen. Julian Cyr have filed a bill to let young adults, without parental consent, receive prescriptions for PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis protection against...
HRC stands against NH bill to classify gender-affirming care as child abuse
A bill (HB 68) that would classify life-saving, gender-affirming care for transgender youth as child abuse went before the New Hampshire House of Representatives' Children & Family Law committee late last week....
Fenway Health mobile clinic to increase access to COVID research
To ensure that Black and Latinx people are proportionately represented in clinical trials of investigational COVID-19 vaccines, Boston-based Fenway Health is making it easier for those who live and work in several...
First Fenway Health staff receive initial doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
The first staff members at Boston-based Fenway Health, one of the country’s leading care and research centers for LGBTQIA+ people, received their initial doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last week.
Older LGBTQ adults in Mass. twice as likely to suffer from depression
A new report from the Boston-based Fenway Institute finds older LGBTQ adults twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression as their straight, cisgender peers. The report also finds this group twice...
