Politics

The Bay State branch of the ACLU is backing tenured professor Lauren Barthold against her employer, Gordon College, which strongly disciplined Barthold for speaking out against Gordon College President D. Michael Lindsay's signing of a...

Vermont joined the city of Boston this week in issuing an official ban on state travel to North Carolina in protest of that state's anti-LGBT discrimination legislation passed last week. Yesterday, Vermont followed up this action by...

After announcing his candidacy in November to replace Boston's State Senator Dan Wolf representing the Cape and Islands district, the news was official. But now the out-and-proud candidate Julian Cyr is sealing the deal by announcing...

Mayor Alex B. Morse’s third inagural ball was one for the books, with more than 450 supporters showing up to dance and celebrate another reeclection of the city’s first openly gay mayor. When first...

With the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's seat on the line—not to mention a couple others likely to open up over the next four to eight years—who fills that seat will almost certainly and profoundly impact...

But Don’t be fooled by the rhetoric, LGBT people ... we have bigger things at stake This morning the dust is settling on the Iowa caucus. Ted Cruz won big. Hillary and Bernie virtually tied. And now...

This week's round-up of news of consequence to the queer professional community: missives from The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Dot Gay, Grindr, Rentboy, and Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan. FAA removes “disorder” label from transgender pilots First, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

This news falls square into the category of "look how far we have come, America." Italy remains one of the very few Western countries that does not recognize marriage equality for same-sex couples. All that...

The LGBT news wrap up for January 23, 2016 Up this week: HRC endorses Hillary and the backlash. The Stonewall Workplace Equality Index releases rankings. And the Israeli controversy at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s...

There's not much chance the LGBT Equality Act will pass the current Republican-dominated Congress this year, but it's gaining momentum on Capital Hill. The act would expand existing civil right laws to ban discrimination...