LGBTQ older adults confront isolation amid COVID-19 pandemic
“This is not how I planned to spend my retirement!”
Phil Tackle’s words echo the frustration so many LGBTQ older adults felt as soon as...
Worcester city buildings to get gender-neutral bathrooms by executive order
Worcester City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. signed a Sept. 8 executive order requiring nearly all city buildings to provide at least one gender neutral bathroom by the end of 2020. That includes...
Boston Globe reports sexual harassment allegations by doctor formerly in charge of Fenway Health’s...
The Boston Globe reported Friday that a prominent doctor formerly in charge of Fenway Health’s education and training division had been accused of multiple incidents of sexual harassment and bullying employees since 2013 before Fenway...
Harvard Law instructor repeatedly cc’d on anti-LGBTQ, -trans bomb threats
Harvard Law School instructor and civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law's Cyberlaw Clinic, has been cc'd on some three dozen emails containing bomb threats this year. Caraballo,...
OUT MetroWest to honor Mass. LGBT Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Grace Moreno at...
At its fifth annual Come Out and Celebrate gala event on Friday, September 21, OUT MetroWest will be honoring Grace Moreno, executive director of the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce, for dedicating her career to advocacy...
Gov. Baker nominates GLAD’s Vickie Henry to state appeals court
Vickie Henry, senior staff attorney and Youth Initiative Director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), has been nominated to serve on the Massachusetts Appeals Court by Governor Charlie Baker.
In an Oct. 1...
Reflecting on Transgender Day of Remembrance, Sunday (Nov. 20)
This Sunday, November 20, 2022, is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when we honor the memory of transgender people whose lives were taken by acts of anti-transgender violence. In commemoration...
White River Junction, VT holds first Pride parade as a ‘Queer Caravan’
White River Junction in Vermont celebrated its first-ever Pride parade despite the COVID-19 pandemic that's forced so many other Prides, from big cities to smaller communities, to go off-road and online.
OUT Maine maintains much of its youth programming by going online
Though forced to cancel, or postpone, many of its highly anticipated gatherings, OUT Maine is moving much of its programming for youth online during the COVID-9 pandemic.
Its...
Troubling Tide of Post-Election Bigotry Reaches Mayor’s Desk
"I know that the good always always outweighs the bad," wrote openly gay Mayor Alex Morse of Holyoke, Massachusetts, on his Facebook page after receiving a homophobic and threatening message earlier this week. And yet,...
