10th Circuit: Will Banning Same-Sex Couples from Marrying Violate the Constitution?
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week will become the second federal appeals court to tackle the question…
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LGBT Statewide Aging Commission’s First Meeting
BOSTON—Senator Patricia D. Jehlen (D-Somerville) and Representative James O’Day (D-West Boylston), co-chairs of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBT Aging, convened the commission’s first meeting on…
Creep of the Week: Anti-Gay & Anti-Women Hobby Lobby
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— It’s really amazing that in 2014 Americans are still fighting over birth control. As in whether or not contraception makes…
Maura Healey in Historic Campaign for Massachusetts Attorney General
By: Chuck Colbert/ TRT Reporter— In closing remarks, the candidate for attorney general made her pitch quite clear: “I say as a point guard, I…
RI & Mass. Orgs. Raise $ to Fight HIV/AIDS Through Dining Out for Life®
By: Lauren Walleser/ TRT Assistant Editor— Participating restaurants will donate a percentage of purchases April 24 to AIDS Project Rhode Island as part of Dining…
Devastating Effects of Religious Liberty & Phelps
By: Nicole Lashomb*/TRT Editor-in-Chief— Freedom of Religion has recently been coined the new phrase to justify discrimination again LGBTQ people. Based on this premise, LGBT…
Ask Lambda Legal – Job Seeking While Openly Gay, Discrimination
By: Greg Nevins/Counsel and Workplace Fairness Program Strategist— Dear Lambda Legal, Q: I just graduated college, and am looking for my first full-time job. I…
Fenway: Health Risks of LGBs Not Well Documented
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— A report released March 27 by the Boston-based Fenway Institute has found important health-related risks within the LGB community that…
Boy Scouts of America Fire Gay Scoutmaster After He Comes Out to NBC News
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, is calling on the Boy Scouts of…
HRC Calls on Winston-Salem State University to Protect Gay Student, Stop Anti-LGBT Harassment
WSSU slow to act as student is target of aggressive anti-gay cyber bullying WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual,…
PFLAG National Director of Policy to Speak about LGBT Equality Legislation & Policy
EAST FALMOUTH, Mass.—PFLAG of Cape Cod will host Diego Sanchez, PFLAG National Director of Policy and former Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Barney Frank, at…
Sports Educator Pat Griffin Joins Board of Sexual Minorities Educational Foundation, Inc.
Will Help Expand Focus of the Sexual Minorities Archives NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – Pat Griffin, Professor Emerita in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts,…
Fenway Health Nets $500k+ at 23rd Annual Women’s Dinner Party
Click here for complete photo coverage By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter— BOSTON, Mass.—“You are the happiest crowd I’ve ever seen,” comedian and emcee Kate Clinton told…
The Affordable Care Act & the ‘Unreachable Community’
By: Sarah Toce— For many the thought of enrolling in health care coverage via the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is nearly impossible to imagine. Many…
Creep of the Week: Franklin Graham and His Homophobic Jesus & Bible
There are a lot of things about the right-wing universe that don’t make a lot of sense to me. The fanatical obsession with the unborn paired with the callous disregard of poor children and their families, for example. The insistence that the Bible is literal and must be adhered to, and yet the careful cherry picking of what passages they actually want to follow.
Supreme Court Seems to Lean Toward Religious Exemptions
Nobody spoke about recent efforts to circumvent laws protecting LGBT from discrimination by claiming religious motivations; nobody pointed out that people with religious objections to contraception often have religious objections to alternative insemination for lesbians and condom distribution for safe sex education.
Carl Sciortino New Executive Director of AIDS Action
Carl Sciortino, state lawmaker and social justice advocate, has extensive experience advocating on behalf of people living with HIV and those vulnerable to infection BOSTON,…
Webinar on Creating Inclusive Settings for LGBT Patients
BOSTON, Mass.—The National LGBT Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute will host a free educational webinar, “Creating Inclusive Health Care Environments for LGBT Patients…
Sixth Circuit Issues Stay Until Wednesday
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a stay at 5 p.m. Saturday of a district court decision Friday…
RI Gay Speaker of the House Resigns Following Raid
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The openly gay speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, Gordon Fox, abruptly resigned his leadership position Saturday following…
Award-Winning Play “The Naked I” Returns to Northampton after 11 Years
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. —“The Naked I: Monologues from Beyond the Binary” returns to its birthplace for a three day run starting on Friday, March 28, 2014….
Massachusetts Senate Passes Anti-Bullying Legislation
MassEquality, Anti-Defamation League, Auditor Suzanne Bump, and Attorney General Martha Coakley Applaud the Passage; Governor Patrick expected to sign a bill that will continue to provide…
Westboro Baptist Church Leader, Phelps, is Dead
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The leader of a small Baptist church in Westboro, Kansas, who made a name for himself by traveling the country…