Middlesex Charitable Foundation supports LGBT youth supportive service group
The Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation presented $20,000 to OUT MetroWest, the Framingham-based LGBT nonprofit that provides supportive and educational programs for middle and high school-aged youth across metro- and western Boston.
“We are honored to receive...
Cigna Foundation grants 50K for OUT Maine to support school GSTA groups
The youth advocacy nonprofit OUT Maine has received a $50,000 grant from the Cigna Foundation to provide support and resources to gay-straight-trans alliances (GSTAs) at schools throughout the state.
Portland Maine school board adopts broad transgender protections
The Portland, Maine School Board unanimously voted in a comprehensive new policy that protects transgender and gender nonconforming students at its November 28 meeting.
The policy includes protections for students to use restrooms and changing...
LGBTQ youth in rural Maine see growing support through efforts like Mount Desert Island...
It's almost impossible to know what life is like elsewhere unless we experience it ourselves, or at least hear about it on the news. Take a story in the Bangor Daily News, for example....
CT lawmakers seek to restrict trans, gender-nonconforming student rights
Republican state lawmakers in Connecticut, partnering with the right-wing Family Institute of Connecticut, are pushing for a public hearing on legislation to restrict the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming students in the...
US Congressman Seth Moulton defends North Shore LGBTQ youth dance against homophobic ‘bigotry’
US Congressman Seth Moulton took a stand against a homophobic school committee member and Beacon Hill hopeful from the South Shore who tried to shut down an LGBTQ youth dance in Moulton's...
Superintendents condemn attack on transgender high school student after North Attleboro/Foxborough game
Massachusetts school superintendents from two districts condemned an alleged hate-crime assault against a transgender North Attleboro high school junior after a North Attleboro and Foxborough school basketball game last week in North...
University of Maine’s annual Gay Thanksgiving offers safe space for all
The holidays can be an especially hard time for LGBTQ youth.
At the University of Maine, two student groups—UMaine LGBTQ Services and Wilde Stein: Queer Straight Alliance—get out front of this issue each year hosting...
Connecticut state treasurer speaks out against proposed anti-trans legislation
Connecticut State Treasurer Erick Russell, himself an openly gay man, penned a February 28 op/ed in the Hartford Courant calling out recent proposed state legislation targeting transgender children:
It’s...
LGBTQ youth in Mass. child welfare system under ‘significant threat’
The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth released a disturbing report on the state's child welfare agency's ability to protect LGBTQ children and young adults in their system from violence and abuse.
