Vermont startup to bring diversity, LGBT characters, to video games
Dana Steinhoff, executive producer at the Burlington, Vermont-based startup tech company Red Magpie, says the company's mission is to bring more protagonists of color, more female characters, and more LGBT-identified characters into the realm of...
Portsmouth, Maine, remembers murder and legacy of Charlie Howard
Thirty-five years after three teenagers in Bangor, Maine, killed Portsmouth native Charlie Howard for being gay, the city of Portsmouth is planning to honor him with a remembrance bench. The permanent memorial comes after a...
Rhode Island family returns to Puerto Rico for post-hurricane reconstruction
“Maybe we should just live here.”
These were Veronica Cintron’s words every time she and her wife Ronia Peguero visited Puerto Rico. A native Puerto Rican transplanted to New England, where the couple created a...
New England volunteers help Waves Ahead rebuild LGBTQ Puerto Rico one home at a...
Hurricane season is here.
In Puerto Rico, where September 2017’s Category 5 Hurricane Maria devastated the US island territory, many people are still living under blue tarps. Their homes lacking shelter from storm-force winds. Many...
First openly gay, first Latinx woman on Sept. 24 ballot for Boston City Council
In the last year or so, Americans have seen the political arena drastically shift into something that was once thought as unattainable: LGBTQ people holding office. In Boston, Americans can also now witness history...
New Hampshire becomes 13th state in US to issue third gender option on driver’s...
Starting in January 2020, Granite State residents will have the option to select M, F or X to mark their gender on their state driver's licenses and state-issued IDs.
Earlier this month, Gov. Sununu opted...
TripAdvisor issues ‘straight pride’ organizers cease-and-desist letter for phony promotion of event
TripAdvisor has sent a letter threatening legal action against organizers of Super Happy Fun America's "straight pride" parade, scheduled to march through Boston in late August, demanding the group stop using the TripAdvisor logo...
Pawtucket Red Sox ‘celebrate’ Pride Night by insulting LGBT fans with Sean Spicer and...
At last Friday's "Pride Night at the Ballpark," the Pawtucket Red Sox brought in Sean Spicer, former press secretary of the Trump administration, to throw the first pitch and offered up free chicken sandwiches...
After 28 years, Blackstone’s replaces vandalized windows in popular Portland, Maine bar
"Portland is a more welcoming place for the LGBTQ community today than it was 30 years ago."
So tweeted the Bangor Daily News last week, and to prove this assertion the BDN pointed to Blackstone's,...
New Hampshire Log Cabin Republicans retry pulling anti-marriage-equality language from party platform
Log Cabin Republicans in New Hampshire are once again proposing to strike the anti-marriage equality provision from the state's Republican party platform.
“I think it would be a very important step for the Republican Party...
