Maine high school football coach loses job after anti-LGBT bullying incident
A high school football coach in Maine lost his job after instructing his players to tease an opposing player about his gay parents.
"The parents, Lynn and Stephanie Eckersley-Ray, of Yarmouth, say Gray-New Gloucester coach...
Maine high school crowns transgender youth homecoming king
He's a dedicated student athlete who loves Christian music, soccer and snowboarding—and Noble High School in North Berwick, Maine just voted this transgender 17-year-old their homecoming king.
Stiles Zuschlag told the Associated Press, as reported...
Rhode Island governor signs conversion therapy ban into law
In late July, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed into law a measure that bans the widely discredited "conversion therapy" for minors.
Raimondo announced via Twitter that she signed the measure, retweeting a Human Rights...
Rhode Island senate approves bill banning conversion therapy
The Rhode Island Senate last night voted 31–1 to pass a bill, sponsored by Senator Donna Nesselbush, to prohibit licensed mental health providers from using the discredited and harmful practice on children and adolescents....
‘Summer of Sash’ brings Southern LGBT youth to ‘safe haven’ in P’town
Comedian Kristen Becker says she remembers what it was like growing up in Louisiana where she had to constantly hide that she was gay. "“You would go through your day, day after day, in a constant...
Greater Boston PFLAG honors Josh Kraft at annual Pride & Passion
Compassionate leadership. That along with commitment and hard work is what Josh Kraft is being honored for at Greater Boston PFLAG's annual Pride & Passion benefit on Thursday, April 27.
Kraft is president of both...
Anti-conversion therapy bill brings Rhode Island closer to statewide ban
If the Prevention of Conversion Therapy for Children Act is passed, licensed medical practitioners would be prohibited from practicing "a range of dangerous and discredited practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or...
Boston’s True Colors Earns National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award
The young thespians from the Boston-based theater program True Colors: Out Youth Theater and their grown-up program leaders from The Theater Offensive have earned a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, which will be...
Maine high-school junior receives national student-advocacy award
Savannah Green, a 16-year-old junior at Gardiner Area High School in Maine, is one of four students nationwide to receive the GLSEN's Student Advocate of the Year Award.
The award "honors an outstanding young person who...
Northeastern holds award-winning career conference on diversity and inclusion
Northeastern University's award-winning annual Reach (OUT) LGBTA+ Career Conference, now in its third year, will be held again in Boston on the evening of November 4 and all day November 5 at Northeastern's Alumni Center, 716 Columbus...
