RI Congressman David Cicilline leads opposition to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills
Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chair David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Vice Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida led 27 of their colleagues in a letter of opposition against two Florida state...
Maine high school teacher sues school dept. over homophobic harassment
A high school teacher in Brewer, Maine has filed a suit against her school department because of a "campaign of harassment" launched over her support of LGBTQ students.
Suspect pleads guilty in 1988 murder of Cambridge man’s brother in Australia
For over 30 years, Steve Johnson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has sought justice in the 1988 anti-gay hate-crime death of his brother Scott, then 27 years old and traveling in Australia.
Hate group marches from Maine to New Hampshire to protest drag queen reading stories...
File this one under bizarre but disturbing stories: Yesterday, Jan. 12, LGBTQ Nation reported on "a group of sad white men," members of the Nationalist Social Club, marching in protest from Maine...
Wilbraham family turns homophobic holiday card into fundraising opp
When a Wilbraham family parented by two moms received a homophobic Christmas card this past holiday season, first came an outpouring of support on Facebook from their neighbors in the Massachusetts town....
Fast food chain with homophobic record to open site at Copley Square
Chick-fil-A — the Georgia-based fast-food chain whose chief operating officer Dan Cathy has donated millions of dollars to anti-marriage equality organizations through the company’s charitable foundation — announced it's opening a Boston...
Canceled drag story time finds new venue in Derry, New Hampshire
Derry, New Hampshire may be officially celebrating Pride month for the first time, but the town's public Taylor Library wasn't quite ready for a drag story-time reading by Michael McMahon, performing as Clara...
Harassment in Milton, Mass. leads to big support for public schools’ GSA
A Milton, Massachusetts couple, LeeMichael McLean and Bryan Furze, turned some weird homophobic harassment into an opportunity for their Boston suburb community to come out and support them, raise a lot of...
Majority of Mass. House Republicans call for action by party chair against anti-LGBTQ remarks...
Twenty-nine of the thirty Bay State House Republicans are calling for their party Chairman Jim Lyons to join them in demanding the resignation of GOP State Committee Member Deborah Martell for her...
Gov. Baker calls for resignation of GOP state committee member over remarks against openly...
Massachusetts Governor Baker has joined calls for GOP State Committee Member Deborah Martell to resign after Martell made a series of homophobic slurs by email and allegedly in person against the family...
