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Faith leaders strategize for transgender rights at Newton forum
The forum, held at Hebrew College in Newton, was the first major event organized by ICTE, which is part of a coalition advocating for the passage of legislation this session to add trans-inclusive language to the state’s non-discrimination and hate crimes laws.
Grand Romance
Three years ago, actor and choreographer David Costa almost didn’t audition for a part. It’s a good thing he reconsidered, because it wound up to be one of the most important roles of his life.
RMV now allows for gender change on licenses, state ID cards
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has issued a new policy to facilitate the changing of gender markers on driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards for people who have undergone a gender transition.
Gay greenbacks from Saddleback pastor
Anti-gay pastor Rick Warren has made Cambridge activist Chris Mason a very happy man.
Adoption makes a family
Mass. agency encourages LGBT people to attend informational workshops.
Interactive Inauguration
At Club Caf?, cheers for Obama, jeers for Warren, Bush
Team Play
Imagine receiving comfort without a word, or solace from a stranger. When her father was dying, that was Michelle Gabow’s experience.
Rafanelli adds a dash of gay to bipartisan inaugural events
President Barack Obama’s inaugural committee hired Boston’s own Bryan Rafanelli to plan three simultaneous bipartisan dinners the evening before Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration to honor Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. John McCain and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
News in Brief: Neil Patrick Harris for Pride marshal?
Neil Patrick Harris, Etheridge in running for Boston Pride marshal
Disco Lives!
DJ Maryalice brings out the hits for AIDS Action Committee’s 70s Dance Party
In Brief: making gay money off of Rick Warren, Maine gets marriage bill
For those LGBT people vexed at the thought of having to watch anti-gay Pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration, Boston LGBT activist Chris Mason has a solution.
History’s first draft: Two African American gay men reflect on inauguration
Just a few hours after Barack Hussein Obama became the first black man in U.S. history to take the presidential oath of office, Bay Windows caught up by phone with two local men, Douglas Brooks, the executive director of JRI Health, and David Wilson, the board president of MassEquality and a plaintiff in the Goodridge marriage lawsuit, both of who attended the inaugural festivities in Washington, D.C
Ready for His Close-Up (and Yours)
Gay pop artist Josh Duffy will shoot his new video in Providence ... and he wants you to co-star.
MTPC town hall meeting addresses status, strategy for passing trans rights bill
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) held its annual town hall meeting Jan. 13 at the Community Church of Boston, and the centerpiece of the agenda was the transgender rights bill, formally known as "An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes."
New coalition aims to make ending HIV/AIDS epidemic a top priority in Mass.
As HIV/AIDS advocates prepare for a potentially bruising budget cycle they have announced the formation of a new group, the Coalition to End HIV, that aims to put the HIV/AIDS epidemic back on the front page of the state’s policy agenda.
Unwilling to be left out in the cold
More than 200 people braved bone-chilling cold on an ice encrusted City Hall Plaza Jan. 10 to call on President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promises to the LGBT community to repeal DOMA and "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" and to pass a trans-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) when he takes office.
Our long national nightmare is over
To ensure that Bush’s legacy on LGBT rights remains spin-proof, here’s a rundown of his administration’s work over the last eight years.
World of Difference
On his latest album, Houston Bernard is less shocking, still electrifying
Athletic Support
If Nick Ciaccio and Matt Ottaviani have their way, members of the LGBT community’s largest local sports teams will be keeping the spirit of charity active throughout 2009. Ciaccio, special events chair for Beantown Softball League and Ottaviani, director of community affairs and outreach for Boston FLAG Flag Football, have teamed up to create the Throw Back Initiative, an ambitious effort to rally the organizations’ memberships toward literally hundreds of volunteer opportunities over the next 12 months.
Advocates focus narrowly in new legislative session
In the midst of an economic crisis that will no doubt occupy much of the legislature’s time, LGBT advocates have their sights set on two goals as the start of the new legislative session: to pass a transgender rights bill and to try to protect state funding for LGBT and HIV-related programs.