Record-breaking: LGBTQ+ adults now 12 percent of US population

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation last week released updated population estimates showing that a record-high 12% of U.S. adults – roughly 25.6 million people – identify as...

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...

Remembering Barbara A. Lenk, first openly gay jurist on Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court

Massachusetts Supreme Court Associate Justice Barbara A. Link, the first openly LGBTQ person to serve on the Court, died last month at 75. “The...

Maine’s anti-trans ballot initiative pulled after state AG finds more than 12K invalid signatures on petition

Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows removed the ballot initiate aimed to "restrict" transgender student access to bathrooms and sports in public schools...

Attorney General Campbell affirms legal protections for trans youth in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office has issued a legal advisory to health care facilities and medical providers across the Commonwealth reaffirming the current state...

Markey releases report detailing demonization of trans community by Trump administration

Last week, US Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) — top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security...

Leaders across Bay State pay tribute to the late Barney Frank: ‘A giant in public life’

Political and community leaders across Massachusetts spoke out in tribute to the former US Congressman Barney Frank, who represented Massachusetts's Fourth District from 1981...

Boston LGBTQ+ Museum to present ‘Pride House’ during World Cup 2026

Boston LGBTQ+ Museum has been awarded the exclusive license to present Pride House Boston during World Cup 2026. Internationally Recognized LGBTQ+ Sports Hospitality Activation...

Former Boston Celtic Jason Collins, first openly gay NBA player, dies at 47

Jason Collins—the first openly gay NBA player, a former Boston Celtic and college roommate of former US Congressman Joseph Kennedy III—lost a tough fight...

Smith College under federal investigation over admission of transgender women

The federal government announced this week it is investigating Smith College's policy of admitting transgender women, and whether that policy now violates Federal law...

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Neo-Nazi group returns to protest another drag queen story hour in Boston, forces cancellation

The neo-Nazi group NSC-131 returned to Boston to demonstrate against another drag queen story hour this past weekend. It was the same group that...

Federal funding threats paused against providers of trans youth health care

Late last week, 22 states filed a Motion for Summary Judgment in their legal challenge to the Declaration issued by Health and Human Services...

Tufts College students engage in Yes on 3 campaign to uphold transgender anti-discrimination law

As the editor of Tufts Daily, Anar Kansara, reported this week, college students are working to get the word out about the referendum on...

P’town White Party 2025

Now in its 37th year, the White Party in Provincetown raised over $208K to benefit all Outer Cape Health Services programs. Bob Lenzi, who’s...