NH Congressman Pappas leads call to give LGBTQ Afghans P-2 refugee status
In late August, US Rep. Chris Pappas, the openly gay Congressman from New Hampshire, led a group of 64 members of Congress calling on the US to help evacuate LGBTQ Afghans. The...
Joe Magee, openly queer Progressive, wins Burlington, VT city council seat
In a special election held this week, Progressive party candidate Joe Magee, an openly queer man, was voted onto the Burlington, Vermont city council. Magee received an impressive 47.1 percent of the...
NH Dem Party Chair Raymond Buckley calls for HRC president to resign
Raymond Buckley, the openly gay chair of New Hampshire's state Democratic party, is calling for the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, to resign. HRC President...
Biden nominates openly LGBT Vermont Supreme Court Justice to federal court
If confirmed, Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson would become the first openly LGBT judge to sit on a federal circuit court in the US, according to The National Law Journal.
MassEquality backs 16 pro-LGBTQ bills for the Bay State’s 2021–2022 session
MassEquality, the Bay State-wide grassroots advocacy organization, announced 16 state bills they're backing for the Bay State's 2021–2022 legislative session. From transgender equality to protections for LGBTQ youth and seniors, they'll be...
Rhode Island legislators pass three important LGBTQ equality bills
Toward the end of Pride month, the Rhode Island state legislature moved a pair of bills onto the governor's desk that ensure greater equality in housing, employment and public accommodations — plus,...
Majority of Mass. House Republicans call for action by party chair against anti-LGBTQ remarks...
Twenty-nine of the thirty Bay State House Republicans are calling for their party Chairman Jim Lyons to join them in demanding the resignation of GOP State Committee Member Deborah Martell for her...
Gov. Baker calls for resignation of GOP state committee member over remarks against openly...
Massachusetts Governor Baker has joined calls for GOP State Committee Member Deborah Martell to resign after Martell made a series of homophobic slurs by email and allegedly in person against the family...
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...
President Biden officially nominates Rufus Gifford to be Chief of Protocol
Unconfirmed reports came early this year that President Biden had tapped the Bay State's own Rufus Gifford to be the next US State Department's chief of protocol. But as Gifford told Boston...
