Boston Legacy pro women’s soccer to launch partnership with Fenway Health at Aug. 9 Pride Match

Fenway Health and Boston Legacy FC today announced a new community and health collaboration that brings together two organizations committed to advancing inclusion, health...

Jason Collins, first openly LGBT NBA player, fighting stage 4 brain cancer

Jason Collins—the first openly gay NBA player, a former Boston Celtic and college roommate of former US Congressman Joseph Kennedy III—has announced he is...

Vermont Christian school in violation of state antidiscrimination, gender ID policies wins federal appeal

A federal appeals court this week ruled in favor of Mid Vermont Christian School, which had violated the state Principals' Association antidiscrimination and gender...

Swim for Life and Paddler Flotilla plunges back into Provincetown harbor, Wellfleet pond on Sept. 6

Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla returns for the 38th time to Provincetown Harbor — and more recently for a non-saltwater version, at...

Red Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks, wife Kristi, ride team’s float in Boston’s Pride parade

Boston Red Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks and his wife, Kristi, scored at Boston Pride for the People's Pride parade last weekend by showing their...

Trump admin files motion for removal from NH lawsuit challenging their own ban on trans athletes

The Trump administration has filed a motion in federal court seeking removal from a New Hampshire lawsuit challenging their own executive order banning transgender...

Fifth annual Road of Rainbows returns to Boston Common, June 14

Saturday, June 14, marks the fifth annual running of the Boston Theater Company's Road of Rainbows—"the first athletic event of its kind in Massachusetts,...

First openly transgender woman to compete in Miss Maine beauty pageant

Isabelle St. Cyr, a 24-year-old native of Howland, Maine, will become the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss Maine beauty contest...

Maine Governor Janet Mills pushes back against Trump administration lawsuit over transgender athletes

In response to the Trump administration's filing of a lawsuit last week to punish the state of Maine for refusing to ban female transgender...

Massachusetts House passes bill with language aimed at barring students from playing on teams of ‘opposite sex’

The Massachusetts House of Representatives last week passed a bill that contained language which "would ban public schools from allowing athletes to play on...

Despite more pressure from Trump admin., Maine school officials will not ban trans athletes from school sports

School officials in Maine are sticking by their position that banning transgender girls from playing on school sports would violate the state's antidiscrimination laws...

‘We’ll see you in court’: ME gov to Trump over anti-trans funding cut

Maine Gov. Janet Mills had heated words with the President last week in Washington, DC over Trump's threat to withhold federal funds from states...

NH students, families challenge Trump’s executive order against trans girls playing on sports teams

Two students and their families, represented by GLAD Law of Boston and the ACLU of New Hampshire, are challenging the Trump administration's executive orders...

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Bay State Senate passes bill to limit book bans in public schools, libraries

The Massachusetts Senate last week passed, "An Act Regarding Free Expression" (S.2338), legislation to limit bans on books and other materials from schools and...

Portland Maine’s only LGBTQ bar launches funds-drive to survive

It's a story all too familiar in the era of COVID-19. Blackstones — which opened 33 years ago in Portland, Maine, and is now...

GLAD Legal Briefs: Protecting and celebrating our LGBTQ families no matter how we form them

This April marks 20 years since we first filed Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the landmark case that resulted in Massachusetts becoming the...

Tales of our city: ‘Zigzag’ chronicles ‘first generation of out gay men’

The time is the post-COVID present (with some reflections back). The place is Boston (and its environs, plus a few back-story settings). And the...