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Articles from the Constitution State LGBTQ advocacy LGBTQ+ advocates in Connecticut are preparing to push for stronger state-level protections amid what they describe as escalating federal...

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Articles from the Constitution State Pride Day in Monroe  Pride flags went up over city and town halls across New England to commemorate Pride month, albeit...

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Articles from the Constitution State Triangle Community Center supports #BlackLivesMatter The Triangle Community Center’s board of directors recently issued a powerful statement in support of the...

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Governor signs executive order aimed to block Trump’s trans military ban On July 26, Governor Dannel Malloy signed an executive order that reinforces the state’s...

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Reported by Natalie Nonken, Boston Spirit contributing writer (Editor’s note: This article appears in the November/December 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.) Hartford’s...

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GLAD calls SCOTUS ruling on LGBTQ workplace protections a decisive win

Mary Bonauto, civil rights project director at the Boston-based GLBTQ Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), hailed as definitive and historic Monday's US Supreme Court decision...

Maine lit. group to provide students with banned memoir ‘Gender Queer’

Despite their recent review committee's unanimous approval of the award-winning memoir "Gender Queer: A Memoir," by Maia Kobabe, Maine's Regional School Unit 56 school...

Development and design plans announced for New England’s first LGBTQ senior housing building

Thankfully, despite the global pandemic and forced closures all across the Commonwealth, the work toward New England’s first LGBTQ senior housing building hasn’t suffered...

RI legislature passes bill to safeguard access to trans, repro heath care

Health care providers and advocates for health care access, reproductive health, and LGBTQ+ equality praised the RI Legislature’s final passage of the “Health Care...