Vermont, Maine, Connecticut senators add sexual orientation and gender ID protections to homeless youth...
Senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Susan Collins of Maine and Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, reintroduced the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act late this month. The legislation includes expanded protections for LGBTQ...
Rhode Island grants US veteran’s benefits denied due to LGBT status
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed into law a bill reinstating benefits to gay and transgender veterans of US armed services who were not granted honorable discharges on account of their sexual orientation or...
Boston Mayor’s office grant to fund mural of Rita Hester, whose 1998 killing inspired...
A public art proposal by City of Boston Artist-in-Residence Golden, a gender-nonconforming trans-femme photographer and poet, has been awarded a grant from the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture. Golden's proposal will...
Northampton celebrates NoHo Pride with locally crowd-sourced video
Traditionally, Northampton, Massachusetts, holds one of the first Pride celebrations each year, NoHo Pride. But back in March, COVID-19 put the kabash on the parade, festival and other gatherings scheduled for Saturday,...
‘Ex-lesbian’ mom from Vermont who kidnapped daughter is in custody
Nearly a decade ago, Lisa Miller, then of Vermont, renounced "the homosexual lifestyle," kidnapped the daughter she'd given birth to with her partner in a civil union, fled the state and eventually...
What Passage of the Transgender Rights Bill Means to Senate President Rosenberg
The following guest editorial by Massachusetts Senate President Stan Rosenberg appears in the current July/August 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine:
After the terrible tragedy in Orlando, it is natural to want to say that standing...
US House adopts LGBT protections put forth by RI Congressman Cicilline
As its first act of business after the election of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House last week, the newly elected, Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives voted to ensure anti-discriminations protections for LGBT...
The geopolitics of being Brittney Griner: Where is the LGBTQ+ support?
WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was arrested a week before Russia invaded Ukraine.
On February 17, the Russian Federal Customs Service detained Griner at Sheremetyevo International Airport for allegedly...
Boston Pride fills two new senior staff positions to meet growing mission
Boston Pride's board of directors this week made good on their strategic-planning mission to add additional staffing by 2020 with two new senior position hires: Pierce Durkin as director of operations and Reina Ysaguirre-Boersma as director...
Red Sox release prospect after he admits to racism, homophobia
The Boston Red Sox showed they have no tolerance for racism and homophobia this past Sunday when they released prospect Brett Netzer, who'd been on their minor league roster since 2019. At...
