IBM, Verizon partner with GLASS on GED program
Many of the youth who access services at JRI Health's Boston GLASS (Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services), which primarily serves LGBT youth of color, face multiple barriers to completing their education. Constance Robinson, GLASS's crisis and resource specialist, said that many of the youth who turn up at the Mass. Avenue center have dropped out of high school after being subjected to anti-gay taunts and/or physical assaults. GED programs, said Robinson, sometimes can be just as hostile towards LGBT students.
No increases for LGBT programs in budget
The House Ways and Means Committee's Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) budget proposal contained dreary news for LGBT advocates. The proposal, released April 16, provided level funding for LGBT youth, elder and domestic violence programs and added a modest increase to the state's HIV/AIDS budget.
Queer women of color create a scene
About two years ago Adora Asala set out to tackle a longstanding problem in Boston's LGBT scene: the distinct lack of people of color at the city's LGBT clubs, bars and events. At the time Asala was part of the group of organizers behind MadFemmePride, which aims to raise femme visibility within the community; she and MadFemmePride head organizer Emily Howe decided to hold a social that specifically targeted queer women of color.
Cheering squad, after party for Living Center marathoners
If running the Boston Marathon is too taxing on your tootsies, why not grab your old pom-poms and cheer on runners from the Boston Living Center's (BLC) marathon team instead?
Cheering squad, after party for Living Center marathoners
If running the Boston Marathon is too taxing on your tootsies, why not grab your old pom-poms and cheer on runners from the Boston Living Center's (BLC) marathon team instead?
ENDA again
Last week Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) told the Associated Press that he planned to bring the controversial Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) up for a vote in the Senate before the year's end - raising the specter of the brutal infighting among LGBT advocates that accompanied the tumultuous debate over ENDA in the House last fall.
Hal Hitler
On April 3 Lexington Public Schools Superintendent Paul Ash announced that the town would be piloting a new diversity curriculum for grades K-5 that will include, among other topics, discussions about families with gay and lesbian parents. The announcement of the diversity curriculum brought the expected jeers from the local anti-gay activist group, MassResistance, but word of the curriculum attracted the attention of a notorious New Jersey white supremacist, Hal Turner, who called on listeners to his Internet radio show and visitors to his website to hunt down Ash at his home and assault him.
Kerry and challenger agree on ENDA
The debate over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) may have caused a schism between the country's LGBT advocacy organizations, but in this fall's Massachusetts Democratic primary race for the Senate both Sen. John Kerry and his challenger, Ed O'Reilly, are on the same page in terms of their positions on ENDA.
Keshet is in demand
Back in 2005 Keshet was a small Jamaica Plain-based organization focused on advocating for LGBT inclusion within the Jewish community in the Boston area; its executive director, Idit Klein, was the organization's lone full time employee. But the release of a documentary film, <i>Hineini</i>, chronicling the experience of a girl coming out as a lesbian at a Jewish school in Waltham transformed Keshet from a small locally focused group to a national advocacy and education organization with eight current staff members and more expansion on the horizon.
Stonewall Communities' future looks uncertain
Stonewall Communities announced last February that it was shelving plans to build an LGBT retirement community in Audubon Circle due to the gloomy real estate market, but on April 7 the organization announced to its members that it is contemplating purchasing a 62-unit condo development in Dorchester, the Schoolhouse at Lower Mills.
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