Attacked owners of Connecticut gay bar call for a hate crime designation
Casey Fitzpatrick and husband Nicholas Ruiz, the owners of Troupe429 who were attacked last month outside their popular Norwalk, Connecticut gay bar, are calling for the incident to be designated as a...
Boston Children’s calls on DOJ to investigate threats over trans care
Officials at leading health care organizations, including Boston Children's Hospital, sent a letter yesterday to US Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the US Department of Justice to investigate the escalating violent...
Westfield woman charged with anti-trans care bomb threat at Children’s
The FBI has arrested a Westfield, Massachusetts woman who now faces federal charges for making a "hoax" bomb threat over the phone to Children's Hospital on Aug. 30.
Police investigate trans flag-burning outside church in Brookline, Mass.
Brookline, Massachusetts police are investigating the burning of a transgender flag outside the United Parish Church near Coolidge Corner late last month, according to the Boston Globe.
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Bomb squad sent to Boston Children’s Hospital after threat over trans care
NBC News reported an investigation is underway into an anonymous bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital Tuesday evening. The threat comes after weeks of harassment resulting from an online campaign of transphobic...
Family seeks answers in Bali police-custody death of Harvard grad student
He'd just arrived in Bali for his honeymoon when Indonesian police arrested the Peruvian Harvard Kennedy School of Government graduate student and transgender activist Rodrigo Ventocilla. Customs officials at the Denpasar airport...
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 disrupted a story hour in Jamaica Plain, wearing...
Neo-Nazi leader arrested at drag queen story hour venue in Jamaica Plain
The leader of a new-Nazi group called "the Nationalist Social Club 131" was arrested outside the Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain where a drag queen story hour was to take place...
Community rallies against vandalism at first LGBT senior housing project in MA
This just in from boston.com:
An LGBTQ-friendly senior housing project in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood was found vandalized with hate speech Sunday morning.
LGBTQ Senior Housing...
Parent cites trans people, drag queens in deadly threat against VT school
A parent of a student at the Canaan Schools in Vermont has been charged with harassment and issued "an Extreme Risk Protection Order, prohibiting from purchasing or possessing a dangerous weapon...