Boston Red Sox support Spirit Day with $200,000 pledge to Fenway Health
This just in from Fenway Health—As part of “Spirit Day,” a world-wide, LGBTQ anti-bullying campaign during National Bullying Prevention Month, the Red Sox, in partnership with Fenway Sports Group President Mike Gordon’s Gordon Family...
Mayor-elect Wu to appoint AIDS Action honoree Bisola Ojikutu to city cabinet
Among Mayor-Elect Michelle Wu's first announcements of who she'll appoint to cabinet-level positions is Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, current executive director of the Boston Health Commission. Wu said in a statement that Ojikutu's...
Fenway Health brief offers advice on COVID-19 for LGBTQ, HIV+ people
How is COVID-19 likely to affect people living with HIV and LGBTQ people?
That's the topic of a new policy brief released on March 25 by the Boston-based Fenway...
New England senators call to update gay, bisexual blood donor restrictions
In response to COVID-19, a group of 15 US senators have called upon the Food and Drug Administration to update blood donation restrictions on gay and bisexual men. Among those who signed...
Health Matters: The Importance of Getting Counted
In order to count in our society, we have to be counted.
Take the U.S. Census, which is completed every 10 years. Results of the Constitutionally-mandated, decennial survey inform the outlines of Congressional Districts and...
Fenway Institute: Trump administration expanded anti-LGBT policies in 2019
The Fenway Institute of Fenway Health today released its annual policy brief laying out the Trump administration's expansion of anti-LGBT policies over the past year.
“During Donald Trump’s third year as president, we moved from...
Provincetown board cancels all town-sponsored events through end of year, including Carnival and...
The Provincetown Select Board voted last night to cancel all town-sponsored events and revoke permits for use of town property through the rest of 2020, including the annual Carnival and Pride parades...
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...
Fenway Health joins federal case against discriminatory health care rule
Boston-based Fenway Health has joined a broad coalition of health care providers, LGBTQIA+ advocacy groups, and patients as a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed today challenging the legality of a new rule...
Outsports to host webinar on building positive mental health practices during COVID-19 isolation
Feeling a little pent-up from social isolation? A pair of LGBTQ experts who focus primarily on athletics and mental health care are leading an upcoming webinar, hosted by Outsports, that can offer...
