‘Gay Pri Week’ Boston – what the media didn’t report

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The New England Gay Officers Actn League has more than 300 members and will celebrate s 25th anniversary this week.

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‘GAY PRI WEEK’ BOSTON – WHAT THE MEDIA DIDN’T REPORT

From the start of the LGBTQ rights movement the 1970s, Massachetts has been a pneer supportg the LGBTQ muny. Wh s gay-beach mec Pr ... * gay pride boston 2016 *

Gay Pri Service at Arlgton Street Church, and the 11 a. Saturday marked the 46th annual para, a major celebratn of the area’s gay muny. Polil teams were out force, om volunteers for Attorney General Mra Healey, the first openly gay attorney general Massachetts, to Treasurer Deb Goldberg.

Now Massachetts has led on gay marriage and transgenr rights, and the cy is celebratg, ” said US Senator Edward J. The Mm of Fe Arts is holdg a special exhib featurg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer artists, she said, which will display later this month. Gay Pri Service – 11am at Arlgton Street Church (351 Boylston St, Boston, MA), click here for more.

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ONCE THE SHADOWS, GAY POLICE NOW OUT AND PROUD

Wh s gay-beach mec Provcetown to boastg one of the bt Pri Ftivals the untry, Massachetts and s people are known to be some of the most acceptg groups out there. 1978: A group of people led by gay attorney John Ward meets the basement of the Old Wt Church and found GLAD (Gay & Lbian Advot and Defenrs), which is now the pneerg group of lawyers who reprent gay and lbian terts urtPhoto Cred: Charl Dixon, Boston Globe Staff1979: What is now the Fay Equaly Council is formed after a group of gay fathers got together and formed the Gay Fathers Coaln. Knowg that there were other gay dads out there, they were mted to fdg each other and formg a work of support.

1982: The Boston Gay Men’s Chos is found. 1988: A small group of young people wh gay and lbian parents together while their parents are attendg an annual nference sponsored by the Gay and Lbian Parents Coaln Internatnal (GLPCI – now known as Fay Equaly Council).

 Black, gay, and poor, he was raised wh the Quaker valu of his grandmother, who started him on a path to fe a more equable and jt world.  Late his life he spoke behalf of LGBT rights and reunted his experienc as a gay man the movement for social jtice.

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