NOM-RI Airs Television Commercial
January 18, 2011 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter The Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is airing a television commercial in an…
December 2011
Same-Sex Marriage Bill Reintroduced in Rhode Island
January 7, 2011 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter For the fifteenth year in a row, same-sex marriage activists in the Ocean State are once again girding…
New HIV prevention tool is effective; implementing ‘PrEP’ remains a challenge
January 6, 2011 By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter The results of a groundbreaking HIV prevention study are indeed encouraging. Men who had sex with men (MSM),…
Chicago cardinal archbishop asked to explain his opposition to civil unions at Boston College
January 6, 2011 By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter The Catholic spiritual leader of Chicago visited Boston College recently, where a doctoral student pressed Cardinal Francis George…
Brigham and Women’s reaches out to Trans community for HIV Vaccine study
January 6, 2011 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter Researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital are recruiting HIV negative male-to-female transgender persons (ages 18-50) who have…
Gayborhood News Briefs
January 6, 2011 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter Massachusetts News Briefs The Fenway Institute has issued preliminary guidance for medical providers on the use of pre-exposure…
Brown’s betrayal, votes against DADT repeal
December 10, 2010 By: Christine Nicco/TRT Online Reporter According to reports from The Advocate online, the “Senate dealt a near-fatal blow” to DADT yesterday, but…
Brown announces support of DADT repeal
December 4, 2010 By: Christine Nicco/TRT Online Reporter As it often happens with many hot button LGBT topics (regulations, passing important legislation or even making…
“I AM: Transpeople speak,” a special report
November 24, 2010 By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter The message is as all-American as the Fourteenth Amendment. “The country was built on equal opportunity,” a new…
RI LGBT Veterans speak out
December 2, 2010 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter With the ongoing effort to repeal the military’s anti-gay Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the news, The…
Rhode Island’s LGBTQQ Youth ‘Live Out Loud’
December 2, 2010 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter Nearly 200 people were in attendance at the Providence Biltmore last month for Live Out Loud, Youth Pride,…
Rhode Island Gays welcome Governor-elect Lincoln Chafee
December 2, 2010 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter LGBTs in the Ocean State cheered earlier last month when the vote totals showed that Independent Gubernatorial candidate…
Becoming Myself Video series give hope to LGBT students
December 2, 2010 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter LGBT students and faculty at Boston University are featured in a new video series, “Becoming Myself.” The participants…
BGMC to spread “Joy” this Holiday Season
December 2, 2010 By: Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus will be spreading some holiday cheer next month with a series of concerts…
Bishop Robinson addresses methods of propriety in promoting LGBT rights
December 2, 2010 By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter There is a right and wrong way for people of faith to advocate in the secular realm, openly…
Fenway Health at forefront in global battle against HIV/AIDS pandemic
November 24, 2010 By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter More than 25 years into the HIV/AIDS pandemic, statistics of HIV rates of infection are shocking: • “Every…
Make it better for homeless queer youth. Now.
November 23, 2010 By Mandy Lussier Here are some sobering stats: About 35 percent of all new HIV infections in the United States occur among…
Remembering victims of anti-trans violence
November 19, 2010 by Kara Suffredini BOSTON-Brandon Teena. Rita Hester. Roy Antonio Jones III. Nakia Ladelle Baker. Ruby Rodriguez. On average, at least one transgender…
RI Pride Heroes honored at Spotlight Awards Gala
November 4, 2010 by Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter The members of Rhode Island Pride honored the organizers of the state’s first-ever Gay Pride celebration with the…
New England News Briefs
November 4, 2010 by Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter Massachusetts Briefs The 29th Annual Human Rights Campaign (HRC) gala will be held on November 13 at the…
Transgender Awareness Week to be held in November
November 4, 2010 by Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter MASSACHUSETTS–Transgender Awareness Week 2010 will be observed from November 13th to November 20th. This week will be dedicated…
Fenway holds Board of Visitors meeting
November 4, 2010 by Joe Siegel/TRT Reporter More than 100 people attended Fenway Health’s annual Board of Visitors meeting on October 19, at Fenway Health’s…
Catholics for Equality: Committed to equality across the board, focuses on online effort
November 4, 2010 Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter The voice of church hierarchy from Maine to California – and now in Minnesota – is shrill but clear:…