Boston Legacy women’s pro soccer team hosts first Pride Match at Gillette Stadium

Boston Legacy Football Club — the new women's professional soccer team that currently plays at Gillette Stadium and will move to Boston's White Stadium...

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...

Mass. Attorney General says US Dept. of Ed investigation won’t keep trans student athletes from playing

After an executive order to ban transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams, the US Dept. of Education announced it would investigate the...

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Boston’s 2020 AIDS Walk and Run marches on, virtually, on October 18

This year's AIDS Walk & Run in Boston, originally scheduled to be held back in early June, had been indefinitely postponed until this fall...

US Senate confirms Vermont’s Beth Robinson to be first openly LGBTQ woman on federal appellate court

In a historic vote, the US Senate last night confirmed Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson to sit on the US Court of Appeals...

Boston’s 39th Wicked Queer LGBTQ Film Festival starts Friday, March 31

Films about the LGBTQ experience in all its shadings and dimensions, and sharing that experience in a darkened cinema with kindred spirits, is an...

National Coming Out Day Press Conference

On National Coming Out Day, LGBTQ community leaders joined US Sen. Ed Markey at a press conference in front of the John Adams Courthouse....