Keshet celebrates its 2020 OUTstanding! Boston honoree Rabbi Becky Silverstein with online talk
The COVID-19 pandemic may have postponed Keshet's OUTstanding! Boston gala, originally scheduled for April 22, but the national grassroots organization that works for the full equality of LGBTQ Jews in Jewish life,...
Worcester bishop calls for removal of Pride, BLM flags from Jesuit school
Worcester Bishop Robert McManus is calling for the removal of the LGBTQ Pride and Black Lives Matter flags from the Nativity School of Worcester because, he says, by displaying them the school...
Bay State marriage central to wedding cake baker’s SCOTUS appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will review a Colorado court victory for David Mullins and Charlie Craig, who married in Massachusetts, after a bakery denied them a wedding cake.
According to a June 26 update from...
Natick churches targeted with anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism; churches respond with support for LGBTQ+ community
Last Saturday, vandals tore down Pride flags, replaced them with a "Christian flag" and left leaflets with anti-LGBTQ+ messages and a banner that read "Jesus is King" at two churches in Natick,...
New England Catholic leaders attempt to clarify Pope’s call for civil unions
Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston and Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence issued statements on Pope Francis's recent endorsement of civil unions for same-sex couples — statements that reveal more about their...
Worcester bishop issues decree against Jesuit School flying Pride, BLM flags
Worcester Bishop Robert McManus who called for the removal of Pride and Black Lives Matter flags from a Jesuit school back in April, has now issued a decree prohibiting the school from...
DignityUSA welcomes all to national conference in Boston, July 6–9
Where’s your place at the table?
DignityUSA wants everyone to know we all have one. That’s the theme of the nearly 50-year-old organization’s national conference this year—“A Place at the Table.” This 23rd annual event...
Three more Massachusetts churches targeted with anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism
Three more churches in Massachusetts were targeted with anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism in late July, and the churches' leaders and their communities, along with the Massachusetts Council of Churches, are once again rallying in...
SCOTUS to hear first LGBTQ rights case after Barrett seated as ninth justice
Even before the US Supreme Court will hear arguments threatening the Affordable Care Act in November, the "next high stakes LGBTQ rights case," said Janson Wu, executive director of the Boston-based GLBTQ...
Pope Benedict XVI’s era of homophobia comes to an end
Pope Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Ratzinger, died over the Christmas holidays and was laid to rest this week. Many Catholics will recall the legacy of his papacy with mixed feelings.
