Politics

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Running on a platform of LGBTQ Youth Safety, fifth-grader Ella Briggs has been elected the 2019 Kid Governor of Connecticut. Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill announced the results last week in a special...

For two of its three top leadership positions, the Maine House of Representatives elected two openly gay reps, Matt Moonen of Portland and Ryan Fecteau of Biddleford, majority leader and assistant majority leader, respectively....

The Victory Fund is closely monitoring the ballot count still coming in from last Tuesday's US midterm election races of 225 LGBT candidates across the country. Many races are still too close to call,...