Efforts back on track to ban youth conversion therapy in Massachusetts
Efforts to make Massachusetts the 16th state in the country to ban conversion therapy got back on track this week with "a crowded, emotional hearing in front the Committee on Children, Families and Persons...
Lawmakers call for Cape commissioner to resign after homophobic postings
Members of the Cape Cod Assembly of Delegates and the Cape & Islands Legislative Delegation are calling for Barnstable County Commissioner Ronald R. Beaty Jr. to resign after Beaty posted homophobic comments on Twitter...
NH Congressman Pappas to host trans US Navy vet at State of the Union
At the State of the Union address this Tuesday evening, New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas is bringing Tavion Dignard, a transgender US Navy veteran, as his guest, according to a Congressional press release from...
Pride Center of Vermont decries ICE detention of LGBT community leader
In late December, Cruz Alberto Sanchez-Perez, a dairy farmer known at “Beto” who’s worked in Vermont since 2016, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as he left a court hearing for a traffic...
Connecticut legislators propose state law to ban ‘gay or trans panic’ defense
Lawmakers in both Connecticut's senate and house proposed bills to ban the so-called "gay panic" defense. If passed, a defendant accused of committing a violent would no longer be able to introduce a victim's...
Conversion therapy ban, trans rights, health care top 2019 pro-LGBT priority legislation in Massachusetts
MassEquality has announced its "Champions Agenda" for Massachusetts' 2019–2020 legislative session—bills that the Bay State LGBTQ grassroots advocacy organization is backing and wants everyone in the community to get behind along with them.
In addition...
US House adopts LGBT protections put forth by RI Congressman Cicilline
As its first act of business after the election of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House last week, the newly elected, Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives voted to ensure anti-discriminations protections for LGBT...
Newly elected LGBT officials from New England join call for Congress to act on...
Newly elected state and local LGBT lawmakers from all six New England States have joined 152 openly LGBT elected officials from across the country to call on the incoming Congress to act on four...
Fast food chain with homophobic record eyes Back Bay Boston site
Chick-fil-A, the Georgia-based fast-food chain whose chief operating officer Dan Cathy has donated millions of dollars to anti-marriage equality organizations through the company's charitable foundation, may be opening a branch in Boston soon.
These contributions...
Congressman David Cicilline of Rhode Island elected chair of US policy and communications committee
US Congressman David Cicilline, openly gay co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and former mayor of Providence, has been elected co-chair of the Congressional committee on policy and communications by his Democratic peers...
