Boston Pride postpones mayoral forum under pressure from LGBTQ activists
Boston Pride has postponed its June 7 forum where the top six contenders vying to be the next mayor of Boston were to discuss LGBTQ issues. They put the event on hold...
GLAD Summer Party returns to Provincetown for 40th anniversary
Celebrity Emcee Varla Jean Merman will host the return of a live, in-person GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) Summer Party in Provincetown next weekend. Last year, the party went virtual due...
34th annual Provincetown Swim for Life and Paddler Flotilla set for Sept. 11
Heeding new precautions against COVID-19 and great white sharks, the Provincetown Swim for Life and Paddler Flotilla will be back for its 34th year next Saturday, September 11.
Block Island students forming their school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance
The Block Island School, the K–12 public school for the year-round community just off the Rhode Island mainland, has given their students the go-ahead to form the school's first Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)...
Rev. Irene Monroe on ‘remembering our sister-friend bell hooks’
bell hooks died in Kentucky on December 15, 2021, at 69. As an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), bell hooks was inarguably one of the nation's prominent feminist scholars and authors. Time's 100 Women...
OUT Maine partners with American Academy of Pediatrics on project to improve health care...
The Maine Health Access Foundation has funded a two-year project to improve the health and behavioral care provided to Maine’s transgender youth. In partnership with the Maine chapter of the American Academy...
Pride Center of VT’s ‘Every Queer Eats’ program is reaching the food insecure
The Pride Center of Vermont's "Every Queer Eats" program may be starting off on the small side, with just about 10 recipients, but it's a model for how to successfully reach out...
Fenway Institute honored for exemplary work of behalf of LBGT community
The Boston-based Fenway Institute is being honored with a 2015 GLMA Achievement Award at a gala hosted by the organization (formerly known as the Gay and Lebisn Medial Association) on September 26, 2015 at the...
Public health officials in Provincetown mobilize to stay ahead of Monkeypox
Public health officials in Provincetown mobilized early to protect the town's residents and wave of summer visitors from the Monkeypox virus.
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Maine school board votes to keep LGBTQ-inclusive sex ed book in library
At a recent meeting, the Bonny Eagle district school board voted in favor of keeping an LGBTQ-inclusive sex education book on its library shelves.
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