Cape LGBT youth complain about lack of social spaces
On July 16 the Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth came to Hyannis to hold its summer meeting, the first meeting held by the new commission outside of Boston. During an ice cream social held after the meeting the commissioners chatted in small groups with the young CIGSYA members, and the youth said that across the Cape, even in the gay Mecca of Provincetown, LGBT youth have few places to kick back and connect with each other.
Judge rejects Cirignano's bid to drop civil rights charges
Worcester District Court Judge David Ricciardone issued a decision July 13 rejecting Larry Cirignano's motion to dismiss the civil rights charges against him in connection to his alleged assault against a same-sex marriage supporter.
Donoghue campaigns on local connections
When Kate Tyndall began organizing a candlelight vigil in response to an anti-gay hate crime last month, she rapidly called City Councilor Eileen Donoghue, her friend and an ally to the local LGBT community. "And she said, 'Whatever you need,'" Tyndall recalled. Tyndall asked Donoghue to speak at the event. "I've heard her talk about equality and she's very eloquent," she explained. "And she's speaks from the heart."
Couple accuse Somerville police of abuse
A Nashua, N.H., lesbian couple claims they were assaulted and sexually harassed by Somerville police last April after their car broke down. Both of the women, Catherine Courtemanche and Rebecca Knobel, were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, and Knobel was also charged with resisting arrest.
Complaint filed against LGBT youth commission
Joseph Rizoli, a Framingham activist known in his hometown for his crusade against illegal immigrants (and who sent a letter to Bay Windows June 28 claiming that now that marriage rights have been secured, LGBT activists would next seek the legal right to have sex with children), filed a complaint with Attorney General Martha Coakley's office against the Massachusetts Commission for GLBT Youth, claiming the commission violated his rights by forbidding him from videotaping its May 21 meeting.
Case dismissed :: MA legal community scoffs at bar exam lawsuit
Given that he flunked the Massachusetts bar exam, Stephen Dunne technically isn't even a lawyer. But the old adage that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client certainly seems to apply when one considers that Dunne is representing himself in a federal lawsuit alleging that he failed the test for refusing to answer a question related to same-sex marriage, in violation of a number of his constitutional rights. What do his would-be peers think of it?
MA nursing home to cater to LGBT elders
Barry Berman, executive director of the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Foundation, is working to provide a new model for the care of LGBT elders that could end the days when LGBT people who enter nursing homes feel pressured to go back into the closet. Berman and the foundation are currently engaged in a capital campaign for the construction of the Leonard P. Florence Center for Living, a nursing facility slated for construction on Chelsea's Admiral's Hill consisting of 10 "houses," semi-autonomous residential centers that will provide specialized care to different types of elder populations. One of those houses, the Elsie Frank House, will focus on addressing the needs of LGBT elders.
Youth commission to focus on health issues, hold meetings across state
During Mitt Romney's gubernatorial administration, the now-disbanded Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth occupied a tenuous position, working to promote LGBT youth programming on behalf of a governor who was often openly hostile to the LGBT community. Listening to Jason Smith, chair of that commission's successor, outline next year's agenda for the Massachusetts Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth, it is clear that those days are over.
Lambda Legal hosts contests for gay comics
Earlier this year, Lambda Legal launched a competition for cartoonists to submit cartoons about the importance of fair courts for LGBT and individual rights, and from now until July 15 visitors to the organization's website can compare the five finalists and cast their vote for the winner.
Cirignano back in court on June 28
Larry Cirignano, former executive of Catholic Citizenship, goes back to court June 28 for a pre-trial hearing in connection with the charges against him for allegedly assaulting a pro-marriage equality demonstrator at a VoteOnMarriage.org rally in Worcester last December.
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