Politics

The Boston Globe reported late yesterday that a grand jury has indicted Bryon Hefner, husband of Massachusetts Senator Stanley C. Rosenberg, on "multiple charges of sexual assault, criminal lewdness and distributing nude photographs without...

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and LGBT Legal Defenders and Advocates (GLAD) came out swiftly and strongly condemning the Trump-Pence administration's announcement late yesterday that it's once again attempting to ban transgender troops from...

New Hampshire's House of Representatives voted 195–129 to include transgender people in the state's anti-discrimination law yesterday. The bill now moves on to the state's Senate, which will vote on it in the coming...

Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy III, as chair of the Congressional LGBT Caucus's Transgender Equality Task Force, called for a meeting with top Trump administration civil rights officials today. The letter raises concerns about such issues...

Granite State Governor Chris Sununu and the state's Executive Council appointed Doug Palardy to the state's seven-member Commission for Human Rights on February 9. The council investigates, mediates and enforces discrimination violations. One of four cofounders...

The New Hampshire House of Representatives approved a bill to ban conversion therapy in the state on February 8. After voting it down only a month ago by a single vote, the bill passed this...

A bill to ban conversion therapy in Maine will be presented in the state's House of Representatives on February 14, according to today's "Eyes on Augusta" column in The Free Press. The bill was...

Kicking off their work in this midterm election year, LPAC — the national lesbian political organization and pro-LGBT political action committee — is holding its first fundraiser 0f 2018 in Boston's South End on...

Christine Hallquist, CEO of Vermont Electric Coop (VEC), wants to be the first transgender governor in the United States. Perfectly out and proud about her identity, she says she’s still hoping that if she...

A new transgender nondiscrimination bill has been scheduled for a hearing on January 31 by the New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee. Similar legislation was defeated in 2007 and tabled in 2017. "The bill would bar...