Second-term openly LGBTQ Vermont State Rep. Kate Donnally steps down
Kate Donnally, an openly LGBTQ Vermont state representative serving her second term, announced she would step down from her House seat on January 27, explaining the reason in her regular column for...
US Rep Katherine Clark’s nonbinary daughter arrested for alleged assault of police officer, anti-police...
Congresswoman Katherine Clark of Massachusetts' nonbinary daughter, Riley Dowell, was arrested over the weekend for allegedly assaulting a police officer and spray-painting anti-police graffiti on the Parkman Bandstand in Boston Common, according...
Bay State’s first openly LGBTQ governor, Maura Healey, takes office
Massachusetts’ former Attorney General Maura Healey has been sworn in as the Bay State’s first elected woman and openly LGBTQ governor — and the first lesbian governor to be elected in the...
President Biden signs landmark Respect for Marriage Act into law
After delivering a powerful speech in a moving ceremony yesterday afternoon, President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage bill into law, ensuring federal rights for same-sex and interracial marriages. While the...
US House Progressive Caucus elects Rep.-elect Balint to leadership position
US Rep.-elect Becca Balint, the first woman and first openly LGBTQ US Congress member from the Green Mountain State — and currently the state’s first openly LGBTQ and woman Senate pro tempore...
US House sends Respect for Marriage Act to President Biden to sign into law
The US House of Representatives today passed the landmark Respect for Marriage Act, ensuring federal rights for same-sex and interracial marriages, clearing the way for President Biden's signature.
Former ME state senator elected first LGBTQ+ York county commissioner
Former Maine State Senator Justin Chenette has become the first Millennial and only openly LGBTQ+ individual elected to serve on the York County Commission, at age 31.
Chenette is...
US Senate passes historic Respect for Marriage Act, nearing passage into law
The US Senate passed the landmark Respect for Marriage Act, providing "relief for the hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples who have married since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision that legalized gay...
Congressman David Cicilline (RI) drafts legislation to prevent Trump from ever holding public office...
US Congressman David Cicilline of Rhode Island, chair of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, says he is drafting legislation and seeking support among his colleagues on Capitol Hill to prevent Former President...
Providence, Rhode Island voters elect openly gay Brett Smiley next mayor
Voters elected Brett Smiley their next mayor of Providence in last Tuesday's 2022 Midterm Elections. Smiley is the first openly gay man to serve in this office since US Congressman David Cicilline...
