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Boston Pride: Mayor Menino is BP’s Grand Marshal for 2013 Parade

BOSTON, Mass. – Boston Pride is pleased to announce that Mayor Thomas Menino has been named the Grand Marshal of the 2013 Boston Pride Parade. In addition to its Grand Marshal, Boston Pride is honored to announce the late Jeanne Manford has been chosen as an Honorary Marshal. The Boston Pride Parade is a march [...]

LGBT Aging Project Joins Fenway Health

BOSTON, Mass. — The LGBT Aging Project, New England’s premier organization for cultural competency training, programs and advocacy for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) older adults, will become an affiliate of Fenway Health effective July 1, 2013.  The LGBT Aging Project will become part of Fenway’s research, education and policy division, The Fenway Institute.  This new [...]

Minnesota Senate Gives Final Approval to Marriage Equality

By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The Minnesota Senate gave final approval Monday (May 13) to a marriage equality bill and the governor has indicated he will sign it, making Minnesota the 12th state to approve allowing same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses the same as male-female couples. The vote also continues an unprecedented momentum toward [...]

Reclaim Pride: Help Free & Honor Bradley Manning

By: Keegan O’Brien*— At the end of April, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Committee announced that Bradley Manning, a Nobel Peace prize nominated gay veteran and whistler blower currently languishing inside a military prison for releasing classified military documents to Wikileaks, would be a Grand Marshal at this year’s pride parade. But mere hours after [...]

Behind the Candelabra

Director talks Liberace biopic and why he’s proud to call it his last film … for now By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special to The Rainbow Times— Steven Soderbergh knows who’s significantly responsible for the major success of his male-stripper romp Magic Mike: gay men eager to ogle the barely-covered bits of Channing Tatum and his hunky posse. [...]

GetEQUAL Launches Campaign for Workplace Inclusion

Activists Take to the Streets to Show Congress They’re Serious About Winning LGBT Workplace Protections WASHINGTON, DC — Today, GetEQUAL — a national social justice organization advocating for the full equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans — has launched a campaign calling on Congress to pass a federal law outlawing LGBT workplace discrimination. Calling the [...]

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