Make your list and check it twice: Toys4Joys is coming back to town
"We’re not a formal event. We’re more like a huge cocktail party,” says Toys4Joys founder James Rifino.
For the ninth annual Toys4Joys drive gift gala on Friday, December 8, The Revere Hotel’s Liberty Hall will be...
University of Maine’s annual Gay Thanksgiving offers safe space for all
The holidays can be an especially hard time for LGBTQ youth.
At the University of Maine, two student groups—UMaine LGBTQ Services and Wilde Stein: Queer Straight Alliance—get out front of this issue each year hosting...
Trans Day of Remembrance observed across Massachusetts, Nov. 17–21
Trans Day of Remembrance is an internationally observed annual tradition held during Transgender Awareness Month (November), to honor individuals who have died throughout the world over the previous year because of anti-transgender hatred. This year,...
Transgender inmate files suit to move to women’s facility in Massachusetts
A 52-year-old transgender woman inmate in the men's facility at MCI-Norfolk filed a lawsuit the US District Court in Boston on November 15 requesting transfer to the women's facility at MCI-Framingham.
The inmate, who has...
Out, proud former US ambassador hopes to represent Mass. in Congress
The openly gay former US ambassador to Denmark and Massachusetts native Rufus Gifford is seeking to fill the Congressional seat that Democrat Niki Tsongas is leaving at the end of her current term.
The 43...
Openly transgender candidate elected to Somersworth, NH school board
Gerri Cannon, a newly elected member of the Somersworth, New Hampshire school board, is one of seven transgender candidates across the country voted into office on November 7, according to an NBC News report.
The...
A record-breaking 41 Massachusetts companies earn top ratings on 2018 Corporate Equality Index
A record-breaking 41 major companies and law firms in Massachusetts earned perfect "100 percent" scores in the 2018 Corporate Equality Index, released November 9, 2017, by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
The average score for...
Disco ball to spin one last time over Dyke Night at Machine on Sat.,...
On Saturday, November 11, Dyke Night is hosting its final Second Saturdays at Machine. But its founder Kristen Porter wants everyone to know that there will still be Dyke Night special events and other...
First openly gay, statewide-elected lawmaker, Ed Flanagan of Vermont, dies at 66
‘‘He was passionate and very progressive,’’ said Vermont state Representative Mary Sullivan of her long-time friend Ed Flanagan, the first openly gay, statewide-elected lawmaker in the US. ‘‘He was guided by a moral compass.’’
Flanagan,...
‘Keep Resisting,’ urges former US AG Eric Holder at GLAD award dinner
“Keep standing up, keep speaking out, keep resisting," former US Attorney General told the crowd of 1,000 advocates for LGBTQ equality at the GLAD's 2017 Spirit of Justice Award dinner. The event was held...
