Maine legislators propose office to help unfairly discharged LGBTQ military vets
Maine lawmakers are recommending the creation of a new office to help LGBTQ veterans involuntarily discharged due to their sexual orientation. The new office, envisioned by the state's committee on veterans and...
HRC endorses Sara Gideon’s campaign to take Susan Collins’s US Senate seat
The Human Rights Campaign announced its endorsement of Maine's Speaker of the House Sara Gideon for US Senate in her race against incumbent Senator Susan Collins.
HRC, the...
Why LGBTQ individuals need to participate in the 2020 US Census
If LGBTQ people aren't counted in the 2020 US Census, then we just don't count when it comes to vital public support.
That's the message public health experts at...
US Congressmen David Cicilline (RI) and Chris Pappas (NH) named to Biden’s LGBTQ vote...
US Congressmen David Cicilline from Rhode Island and Chris Pappas from New Hampshire—both cochairs of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus—have been named to Joe Biden's LGBTQ voter-outreach steering committee, "Out for Biden."
In early endorsement, HRC backs Pappas, Shaheen in New Hampshire
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Congressman Chris Pappas, both representing New Hampshire in Washington, are among the candidates endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign last week.
Their endorsements...
Congressman Chris Pappas’s bid for reelection a top 2020 race to watch
The Boston Globe is calling openly gay Congressman Chris Pappas of New Hampshire's race for reelection one of four top New England contests to watch in 2020.
In 2018,...
Mass. AG Healey leads call to uphold federally threatened anti-discrimination protections in the...
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, along with California AG Xavier Becerra, has taken the lead in protesting the federal government's recent move to withdraw critical anti-discrimination protections from the Affordable Care Act.
Bay State native Rufus Gifford named Biden’s deputy campaign manager
Bay State native Rufus Gifford of Concord, Massachusetts, was hired yesterday by former Vice President Joe Biden as deputy campaign manager for the former US Vice President's 2020 presidential campaign.
New Hampshire GOP tables vote to pull anti-marriage-equality language from state party platform
Despite the latest in repeated efforts to remove anti-marriage equality language from the New Hampshire Republican party platform, the state's GOP party platform committee voted unanimously to ask delegates at their May...
LGBTQ Victory Fund endorses Jordan Meehan for Massachusetts State Rep.
The LGBTQ Victory Fund, the national nonprofit dedicated to electing LGBTQ leaders to public office, has just endorsed Jordan Meehan—currently the policy coordinator for the Bay State's Commission on LGBTQ Youth—for state representative in...
