Obama commutes Chelsea Manning’s espionage sentence
It's not exactly Caitlyn Jenner this time. Transgender awareness has taken the spotlight on the national stage once again, not in a Jenner-style glossy fashion shoot for Vanity Fair but from federal prison and the...
Boston Women’s March for America inclusive of LGBTQIA
Its organizers want you to know that the Boston Women’s March for America on Saturday, January 21, is for everyone. Women, immigrants, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQIA, "all of us."
And according...
Secretary of State Kerry apologizes for decades of State Dept. discrimination
“These actions were wrong then, just as they would be wrong today."
With this words, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry apologized to the LGBT community on behalf of the State Department for decades of...
Vermont Senator Leahy blasts AG nominee Sessions’ anti-civil rights record
"When I pushed in 2009 to advance the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act," says Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, "it was Sessions who sought to derail it."
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, writes Leahy in...
MassEquality greets 2017 with six-point LGBT-rights agenda
2017 is here, and the fight for LGBT civil rights — both in terms of progress and saving basic, hard-fought civil rights — is on.
For the Bay State, MassEquality has put forth its six-point agenda for the New...
NH Democratic chair is a top contender to head DNC
Raymond Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party and vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is a top contender to become chairman of the national party organization.
Buckley is also the first out gay...
Troubling Tide of Post-Election Bigotry Reaches Mayor’s Desk
"I know that the good always always outweighs the bad," wrote openly gay Mayor Alex Morse of Holyoke, Massachusetts, on his Facebook page after receiving a homophobic and threatening message earlier this week. And yet,...
Donald Trump claims to be gay-friendly. Could it be so?
"The gays love me," proclaimed U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump on the campaign trial at rallies and on television and radio news interviews. "I'm much better for the gays," he insists.
But after a campaign full...
Granite State Governor & LGBT-Rights Advocate Maggie Hassan defeats U.S. Sen. Ayotte
In a tight race not called until late the day after the election, New Hampshire's Democratic Governor Maggie Hassan has officially won first-term Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte's seat on the U.S. Senate, 51-48.
On July 1,...
All 15 MassEquality-endorsed incumbents reelected, joining Cyr & Lewis on Beacon Hill
Hours after Hillary Clinton delivered her speech conceding the White House to the GOP nominee, Deborah Shields executive director of MassEquality, offered the following words to our LGBTQ community and allies:
Today, we are all dealing...
