Maine high school football coach loses job after anti-LGBT bullying incident
A high school football coach in Maine lost his job after instructing his players to tease an opposing player about his gay parents.
"The parents, Lynn and Stephanie Eckersley-Ray, of Yarmouth, say Gray-New Gloucester coach...
Gilead Sciences grants UMass-Worcester and Boston’s Dana-Farber major AIDS/HIV research grant
Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and UMass Medical School in Worcester are among five recipients of a 7.5 million dollar grant from Gilead Sciences to fund AIDS/HIV research.
The awards are the second round of HIV...
New England’s major league teams sponsored Gay Bowl XVII, hosted by FLAG Flag Football...
After recently announcing the New England Patriots as MVP sponsors, Boston's FLAG (Friends, Lesbians and Gays) Flag Football League added the Boston Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and Revolution as Bronze sponsors for Gay Bowl...
Maine high school crowns transgender youth homecoming king
He's a dedicated student athlete who loves Christian music, soccer and snowboarding—and Noble High School in North Berwick, Maine just voted this transgender 17-year-old their homecoming king.
Stiles Zuschlag told the Associated Press, as reported...
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...
