Politics

Did you know that the Boston City Council is in the beginning stages of creating a commission to address the needs of black men and boys in Boston? On June 24, 2014 the Boston City...

The First Bisexual Woman in Congress is a Badass – and Needs Our Help In 2012, there were more openly LGBT members of Congress elected (and re-elected) than any year before and one openly LGBT...

Today around six thousand Democratic activists and organizers will meet in Worcester DCU center for the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s annual convention. Those convention delegates are elected at local caucuses, appointed by the Democratic State...

Brett Smiley is running for mayor of Rhode Island's largest city, Providence. And he's released a very gay-friendly video promoting himself. It's not like Providence hasn't had an openly gay mayoral candidate or mayor before...

Our neighbors to the south in Rhode Island have an exciting prospect on their hands. According to reports from the Providence Journal and Rhode Island NPR, openly gay State Representative Frank Ferri (D-Warwick) is exploring taking a run for the Lt. Governor seat for the November election.

We thought we’d put together an informal poll of what electeds who are up for re-election and candidates for the top state-wide and Congressional offices did to celebrate the 10th anniversary of gay marriage.

It was announced today that for his 8th time marching in the Boston Pride Parade, Governor Deval Patrick will be parades Grand Marshall. Patrick is a natural choice for the honor.

As statewide LGBT organizations go, it’s hard to match MassEquality’s storied reputation. Marriage equality in Massachusetts was born of the judiciary ten years ago this month, but in its infancy, MassEquality reared it in a toxic anti-equality national political environment amid efforts at home to amend our state constitution to deny lesbian and gay folks the right to marry. MassEquality spearheaded an effective grassroots campaign apparatus aimed at protecting elected officials and candidates who stood with us and defeating those who did not. The political air cover MassEquality and other LGBT groups provided allowed pro-equality lawmakers to stand up to the conservative coalition bent on stuffing out the early flames of marriage equality.

If Mike Michaud hangs on to his lead in the polls, he could become the nation’s first openly gay person to be elected to a governorship, making him arguably the most powerful out politician...

Fifty years ago this month, on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, Lem Billings had just returned from lunch when he heard the news. He was an advertising executive at Lennen and Newell in New York and as he approached his office building at 380 Madison Avenue, Billings saw immediately that something was wrong. Waves of people rolled out of the building onto the street, some looked confused, others wept. According to David Pitts, author of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship, a face in the crowd approached Billings and said, “I’m so sorry about the president.”