Out gay politician Jordan Wood returns to Maine Senate race after run for Congress

After first running for the US Senate earlier this year but dropping out of that race to run for a seat in the US...

Maine ranks fifth safest state for LGBTQ+ Americans in SafeHome.org’s 2026 report

The state of Maine came in at number five on SafeHome.org's 2026 LGBTQ+ Safety and Equality Report. Other top scorers in New England were...

Amherst community urges schools to better protect LGBTQ+ students

A spokesperson for the LGBTQIA+ Caucus of Amherst organized a rally and call-to-action event last week to highlight a "systemic failure" to protect LGBTQ+...

RI Foundation honors long-time RI Pride leader with 2026 Pride Award 

Rodney Davis is the recipient of the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2026 Pride Award. The Coventry resident was honored for three decades of work on behalf of LGBTQ+ Rhode Islanders.  "There is little more...

NH Gov. Ayotte vetoes anti-transgender ‘bathroom bill’ for fourth consecutive time

“Trying the same thing again isn’t going to get a different result,” said New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte in a statement after once-again vetoing the same anti-transgender legislation that arrived at her desk for the fourth consecutive time.

BAGLY awarded $750K grant from the Cummings Foundation 

The Boston Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth (BAGLY) has been selected as one of 150 nonprofits to receive funding through Cummings Foundation’s annual grant program,...

Man shouting anti-LGBTQ slurs barred from RI state beach for one year

A Milford, Massachusetts man was removed from a state beach in Rhode Island after repeatedly shouting anti-LGBTQ slurs to a gay couple, to others...

Jordan Wood, Maine’s openly gay candidate for Congress, advances to a run-off vote after state primary

By early morning following the state’s primary, Jordan Wood, the openly gay Democratic candidate for the 2nd Congressional District, was emerging as the early...

South Boston business records repeated vandalism of Pride sign . . . and an attempt to fix it

A South Boston business owner recorded multiple incidents of vandalism to a Pride sign he displayed outside his shop—all caught on his security camera....

Boston Foundation’s Equality Fund awards $705K to LGBTQ+ serving orgs

The Equality Fund at the Boston Foundation is awarding $705K in grants to 42 LGBTQ+-serving organizations in the largest grantmaking slate in the Fund’s...

Thousands come out in ‘Pride and Protest’ for Boston’s 56th annual LGBTQ+ Pride festivities

The theme of the 56th annual LGBTQ+ Pride celebration in Boston, hosted by Boston's Pride for the People this past weekend, was, appropriately enough,...

Rainbow Revolutionaries Tours returns to Freedom Trail, starting June 6 for Boston’s Pride celebrations

On June 6, the Freedom Trail Foundation’s Rainbow Revolutionaries Tours will step off for the third year to illuminate the lives, loves, and fights...

Federal appellate court blocks Trump’s military ban on trans service-people, halting discharges

This week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision in Talbott v. USA (formerly Talbott v. Trump) upholding a preliminary...

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New Bedford Marine convicted of killing trans woman is pardoned and deported from Philippines

US Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton from New Bedford, Massachusetts has been pardoned by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and has been deported from...

Pride for the People – Boston responds to Boston Pride’s cease-and-desist calls

Boston Pride recently issued a cease-and-desist letter to the new grassroots organization that formed over the summer in protest to Boston Pride's "persistent failure...

Newsmakers | New Hampshire

Headlines from the Granite State Roesener wins Voters in New Hampshire’s Merrimack County District 22 made history in the 2022 Midterms by electing James Roesener to...

Boston voters move first Latinx lesbian city council candidate to Nov. 5 ballot

Alejandra Nicole St. Guillen, the first openly gay and Latinx woman running for a seat on the Boston City Council, earned voters' support in...