History

Monday, November 16, marks the first day Ireland recognizes same-sex marriage licenses registered in other countries. Six months ago, the Irish pubic voted by 62.1 percent to allow gay unions in a historic referendum—the...

There may be no trail of rainbow-colored bricks commemorating Boston's LGBT history—at least not yet—but a group of Boston University faculty and students embarked on their own walking tour, traversing the footsteps of homoerotic...

What a difference a day makes. On June 26, 2015 the members of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus were in Istanbul, in the midst of the first-ever tour of the Middle East by a gay...

The first openly transgender person to serve as a Beacon Hill staffer has made history again. The Obama administration appointed Raffi Freedman-Gurspan as its new outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the White House...

As the landmark U.S. Supreme Count ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide reverberated, the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), which ended the week prior to the ruling, showed prescience in showcasing a documentary about the early...

Marriage for same-sex couples, which began in New England with legal civil unions in Vermont and full-fledged matrimonial rights in Massachusetts is now recognized in all 50 states based on the U.S. Supreme Court's...

Remember what it was like way back in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic? The fear and loss, but also the community and compassion? Maybe you were too young. Maybe, like a lot of...

Support for same-sex marriage among the U.S. public has never been higher and the approval for legalizing marriage equality appears to only be growing. A recent Gallup survey shows a whopping 60-percent approval rating. A May...

This Saturday, October 11th, is National Coming Out Day. Coming on the heels of a historic week in which marriage equality spread to more than 30 states, some have begun to ask ‘Do we...

On May 17, 2004, history was made. Massachusetts became the first state in the country to honor legal same-sex marriages. And when one considers the ripple effect that had—catalyzing greater acceptance that permeated everything from pop culture to politics—it is no exaggeration to say that for gay men and women, America changed forever. And it happened because of “Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health,” the landmark court case argued by GLAD’s Mary Bonauto. Together, seven couples shared their lives with the world in the hopes that they might change it. And a decade later, we revisited each of them to reflect on the case, its impact, how it changed their lives.