AIDS Action Committee founder Larry Kessler to receive HistoryMaker award
Larry Kessler, founder of the AIDS Action Committee, will receive the 2017 HistoryMaker Award at The History Project's annual awards fête on Wednesday, October 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Boston's Club Café.
At...
Puerto Rico’s LGBT centers provide updates how to help with Maria relief
With widespread destruction across the US island territory of Puerto Rico, it goes without saying that everyone there can use a helping hand. Many people in marginalized communities, however, tend to find themselves at...
Tufts, UMass-Amherst score perfect five stars on the LGBT Campus Pride Index
Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst earned top marks on the 2017 Campus Pride Index. The national LGBT youth support and advocacy organization examined more than 300 campuses, and these two Massachusetts...
Gender-bending cast re-stages old pioneer tropes of American history
Manifest Destiny was never this much fun.
That’s because playwright Jaclyn Backhaus plucks the “man” out of the term for the 19th-century belief that U.S. expansion West was justifiable and inevitable. Her off-Broadway comedy “Men...
Harvard rescinds visiting fellowship offer to Chelsea Manning
Responding to immediate backlash after announcing that Chelsea Manning would be a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics, the university swiftly disinvited Manning from the fellowship—while maintaining every other aspect of its...
Edith Windsor, whose SCOTUS case won marriage equality for all, dies at 88
No doubt we'll be celebrating her life in New England as well as in her home state New York. In fact, everyone in the country who supports marriage equality will be celebrating the life...
Queer Muslims of Boston participate in national awareness activities, Sept. 9–11
This weekend (September 9–11)—one month prior to the US Supreme Court hearing arguments on the Muslim ban—LGBT groups of color across the country are launching peaceful and awareness-building actions under the banner title of...
Dell EMC settles former transgender employee’s hostile workplace claim
Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based computer storage company Dell EMC received a perfect score on HRC's 2016 workplace equality index. It also was named one of the top companies for LGBT employees by Diversity Inc.
Still, the tech giant...
Harbor to the Bay tops 5 million dollars for the fight against HIV/AIDS
The annual Harbor to the Bay (H2B) ride just passed a major milestone in the fight against HIV/AIDS ... and it's still a few weeks away from the 2017 ride, which takes place on Saturday,...
Connecticut Newsmakers: Governor signs order against trans military ban and more
Governor signs executive order aimed to block Trump’s trans military ban
On July 26, Governor Dannel Malloy signed an executive order that reinforces the state’s nondiscrimination rules in the Connecticut Military Department.
The order comes in...
