Openly gay Patrick appointee to be arraigned on sexual assault charges
Carl Stanley McGee, assistant secretary for policy and planning in Gov. Deval Patrick's administration and one of Patrick's first openly gay appointees, will be arraigned Feb. 25 in Fort Myers, Fla., on suspicion of committing sexual assault on a 15-year-old.
Romney's unraveling
Mitt Romney ended his presidential campaign last week the same way he began it: by gay bashing. In the course of telling the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 7 that he was stepping aside for the good of the GOP and the country, Romney threw this hunk of red meat to the Republican base: "The development of a child is enhanced by having a mother and a father. Such a family is the ideal for the future of the child and for the strength of the nation. I wonder how it is that unelected judges, like some in my state of Massachusetts, are so unaware of this reality, so oblivious to the millennia of recorded history. It's time for the people of America to fortify marriage through a constitutional amendment, so that liberal judges cannot continue to attack it."
Advocates talk of past, present state of black community's response to HIV/AIDS
To mark National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), about 30 advocates and healthcare providers gathered at AIDS Action Committee's Boston headquarters Feb. 7 to discuss the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how it impacted black communities in the Boston area.
Obama Takes Illinois
On Feb. 5-also known as Super Tuesday because more than 20 states held primaries or caucuses-Obama was projected to defeat rival Sen. Hillary Clinton by an almost two-to-one margin. With 95 percent of Illinois precincts reported, Obama was declared the winner, outdistancing Clinton 65 percent to 33 percent.
Good riddance: LGBT pols, activists happy to see Romney's campaign sputtering to a halt
With just 51 percent of the vote in Massachusetts, former governor Mitt Romney barely squeaked out a win in his home state - well, one of his three home states, that is - on Super Tuesday. That tells you about all you need to know about the state of his presidential campaign: Mitt Romney laid an egg. It might be a $35 million Faberg? egg, but it's still an egg. Not surprisingly, members of the local LGBT community certainly aren't shedding any tears over Romney's likely exit from the presidential stage, which is expected to come sooner rather than later.
MassEquality begins board recruitment campaign
Wilson said the board and MassEquality campaign director Marc Solomon have began reaching out to community organizations to recruit prospective board members. The board hopes to attract new members with a commitment to MassEquality's mission and experience in fundraising. Wilson said MassEquality is also working to expand the board's diversity, adding new members from the transgender community, from communities of color, and from youth and elder communities.
N'Touch in court over stolen contacts
The battle between <i>In Newsweekly</i> and its former associate publisher, Bill Berggren, moved into the courtroom Feb. 5, as <i>In Newsweekly</i>'s parent company, HX in Boston, filed a lawsuit against Berggren, alleging that he stole <i>In Newsweekly</i>'s advertiser database and used it for his own benefit.
South End video store with big LGBT collection succumbs to Internet rentals
The latest casualty of the Internet revolution is a local. Mike's Movies on Tremont Street in the South End is closing its doors for good this spring, proving that the days of chatting up your neighbor at the local video store are just about gone for good.
The endless war
The marriage amendment fight may have ended last summer, but the amendment's prime sponsor, the Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI), is still waging an anti-LGBT culture war on Beacon Hill.
Stonewall community plans on hold
Stonewall Audubon Circle, the LGBT-oriented retirement community planned for the Fenway neighborhood, has become the latest casualty of the bad real estate market.
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