Remembrance bench in Portsmouth, NH honors victim of 1984 hate crime
Almost four decades after three teenagers in Bangor, Maine, killed Portsmouth, NH native Charlie Howard, age 23, in 1984 for being gay, the city of Portsmouth is honoring him with a remembrance...
In Memoriam: Jahaira DeAlto
(March 4, 1979–May 2, 2020)
When the devastating news hit the community about Jahaira DeAlto’s murder, ripples of shockwaves reverberated throughout the state and beyond. However, when it was...
First gay US Episcopal bishop recalls kind support of late Desmond Tutu
Among the worldwide tributes to the late Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu come the recollections of the Right Rev. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the United States' first gay Episcopal...
Remembering night life impresario, community leader Chris Harris
Chris Harris lit up the night.
If you came out or came of age in New England’s gay nightlife post-2000, you probably partied at one of the many vibrant events conceived by Chris Harris Presents,...
Trans Day of Remembrance in Boston Honors Those Lost to Anti-Transgender Violence
In 2016 hate crimes against transgender people have risen. But sadly violence against our trans sisters and brothers is hardly news. in 1998, friends, family, loved ones, and the community came out to remember Rita...
TikTok star Rochelle Hager of Maine dies after tree branch falls on car
TikTok star and Waterville, Maine resident Rochelle Hager, known on the platform as "Roe," was killed last week when high winds slammed a large tree branch directly onto her Nissan Rogue as...
2020 World AIDS Day Celebration (virtual) / December 1, 2020
COVID-19 is hardly the first time that the federal government has fumbled its response to a deadly pandemic out of willful ignorance. See: the devastation wrought by the AIDS crisis, especially as...
Nonbinary Harvard Kennedy School student praises late Ash Carter for overturning trans military ban
In a recent Boston Globe Opinion piece, Grace Park, a Belfer Young Leader Student Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, looks back at how former US Secretary of Defense Ash...
LGBTQ activist, part-time Provincetown resident Urvashi Vaid dies at 63
LGBTQ civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid died last weekend at age 63 after a tough fight with cancer at her home in New York City. Vaid and her wife, the comedian Kate...
South Coast LGBTQ+ Network to host two gatherings in observance of Trans Day of...
On Saturday, Nov. 20, the South Coast LGBTQ+ Network — a nonprofit organization that supports and advocates for members of the community in and around New Bedford...
