Working Together: Allies of Rhode Island’s LGBTQ+ community

Stated simply, the queer community couldn’t be where we are today without allies. Over the decades, individuals have stepped up, giving their time and talent, attending our rallies, demonstrations and vigils, pushing...

Boston’s iconic publications Bay Windows, South End News up for sale

Yesterday, Sue O'Connell and Jeff Coakley, co-publishers of Bay Windows newspaper — so central to Boston's LGBTQ community since the early 1980s — and its sister paper South End News, announced both...

Randy Price hosts Boston Spirit’s new Internet newscast—launching today

Boston Spirit magazine, New England's Premier LGBT magazine, is launching a new, weekly, social media-based broadcast called "LGBT in Three," hosted by Randy Price. The first webcast goes online today, July 10. "LGBT...
Sara Barber-Just’s Journalistic Writing class at Amherst Regional High School. Photo John Tlumacki/Boston Globe

Amherst high school journalists prompt investigation into concerns of transphobia at nearby middle school

Students in a high-school journalism class in Amherst, Massachusetts, did a deep dive into an alleged culture of transphobia they found at a nearby middle school, and their report in the school...
Brita Filter

Maine native chosen to compete in new season of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

Among the 13 queens selected to compete in the 12th season of "RuPaul's Drag Race"—premiering on  Friday, Feb. 28—will be Dover-Foxcroft, Maine native Jesse Havea ... or rather Havea's celebrated drag persona Brita Filter. Reports the...