GLAD applauds SCOTUS denial to review anti-LGBTQ parenting case
Boston-based GLAD (GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders) applauded the US Supreme Court's denial to review a petition this week that would have discriminated against the right of same-sex spouses to appear on...
Meet Wayne Yeh, the openly gay Bay State Presidential elector from JP
Wayne Yeh, 26, of Jamaica Plain is one of two LGBTQ electors who represented Massachusetts in yesterday's Presidential Electoral College vote. He is also one of three people of color among the...
Boston Pride announces plans for inclusive, ‘transformational change’
For the past six months, Boston Pride has been working with a consulting team, Dorrington & Saunders, LLC, to "institute transformational change within our organization regarding diversity, access, inclusion, equity and equality."
Bay State communities receive perfect scores on HRC Municipal Equality Index
The Human Rights Campaign has released its ninth annual Municipal Equality Index for 2020. Six Bay State cities — plus Provincetown — have received perfect scores of 100, and almost all participating...
Santa Speedo Run to be done in small groups this year, on Saturday, Dec....
Traditionally, around the holidays on non-pandemic years, some 700 people, age 21+, with a strong out, proud, LGBTQ turnout, gather in Boston on a December weekend for a half-hour jog down Newbury...
University of Vermont grad to be first Black LGBT United Church of Christ Executive...
When Darrell Goodwin steps into his new role as Executive Conference Minister for Southern New England in the progressive United Church of Christ, he'll be the first Black LGBT person in the...
Boston Ballet to virtually present newly choreographed ‘Gift’ for the holidays
Boston Ballet principal dancer John Lam keeps stretching his gifts.
Maybe it’s because he and husband John Ruggieri have two young sons, but Boston Ballet...
Fecteau sworn in as Maine’s first openly gay Speaker of the House
Maine State Rep. Ryan Fecteau, 28, made history yesterday, Dec. 2. As he entered his fourth term in the legislation, Fecteau was officially elected and sworn in as Maine’s youngest and first...
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus to perform for city’s virtual tree lighting, Dec. 3
A new performance by the Boston Gay Men's Chorus will be part of the 79th annual lighting celebration of the Boston Common tree, which happens virtually this year due to pandemic protocol....
Mass. SJC to hear Gordon College’s LGBTQ workplace discrimination case
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear the claim of a Christian college in Wenham, Mass. that maintains it has the right on religious grounds to withhold from a longtime instructor a...
