Homophobia

A New Hampshire state legislator last week halted a debate over a bill to ban "gay or trans panic" as a legal defense for committing manslaughter when the lawmaker referred to LGBTQ...

Portland, Maine's Board of Education is scheduled to vote this afternoon on a resolution that would turn a spate of threatening letters into a teaching opportunity. According to...

The Springfield Catholic Diocese canceled a scheduled performance by The Pioneer Valley Gay Men's Chorus in a concert held over the holidays at Saint Teresa's church in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Members of the chorus told...

Reverend Rick Rabe of West Springfield United Methodist Church told MassLive he finds the denomination's proposed historic split over LGBT marriage and ordination an "equitable solution." The split, announced yesterday, "would divide the third-largest religious...

The Bangor Daily News reported this week that Maine resident Stephen King believes it was important to include an LGBTQ hate crime included in his book that inspired both a TV miniseries, a big...

At last Friday's "Pride Night at the Ballpark," the Pawtucket Red Sox brought in Sean Spicer, former press secretary of the Trump administration, to throw the first pitch and offered up free chicken sandwiches...

Overwhelmingly, an enormous sense of love, strength and community pervades Pride events this year. Nevertheless, Pride-related hate crimes are catching the attention of the national media; if there's any good news in this, it's...

Putting history and present-day reality aside—because organizers of the Straight Pride movement appear to be erasing the effects of anti-LGBTQ discrimination on LGBTQ people—a group called Super Happy Fun America is pushing for a...