June 19 2024, 05:42
“Falling Through the Night,” an autobiographically-inspired novel by Vermont resident Gail Marlene Schwartz, has been selected as this year’s National Indie Excellence Award winner in the LGBTQ fiction category. The novel explores the complicated journey of healing trauma and learning how to love. Schwartz will speak at NEK Pride in Newport, Vermont on Sunday, June 23. […]
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June 19 2024, 05:42
The Fenway Health Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that it has hired Jordina Shanks as Fenway Health’s next CEO. Shanks has been serving as Fenway Health’s Interim CEO since March. Prior to that she served three years as Fenway Health’s Chief Operating Officer. Shanks was selected from a diverse pool of more than […]
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June 19 2024, 05:42
Providence, Rhode Island’s own unique LGBTQ+ Pride events are back this year and once again expected to draw the big crowds. This Saturday, June 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., it’s RI PrideFest in District Park, at 120 Peck Street, with over 250 local nonprofits, artisans, businesses, food vendors (including a 21+ spirits tent), […]
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June 19 2024, 05:42
The Pride flag flying over Harwood Union Middle and High School in north-central Vermont was stolen over the past weekend. In a statement issued soon after the theft, the school’s administrators promised to replace it. The Progress flag had been flying since mid-May and was scheduled to fly through the month of June. Reports VT […]
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June 19 2024, 05:42
[This article appears in the May/June 2024 print issue of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.] For many cinephiles, Andrew Haigh’s latest film “All of Us Strangers” was unjustly overlooked by this year’s Oscars. Haigh adapted Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers” to create a moving mix of ghost story, gay romance and medication on grief. “All […]
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June 19 2024, 05:41
Moist air from the Gulf of Mexico could bring some relief to firefighters battling a pair of wildfires in southern New Mexico.
June 19 2024, 05:41
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out.
June 19 2024, 05:41
A blast of heat and humidity in the Midwest and Northeast days before the official start of summer has put a wet blanket on outdoor activities from festivals to sports camps as officials urge people to take precautions.
June 18 2024, 08:15
Thailand’s Senate has voted overwhelmingly to approve a marriage equality bill, clearing the last legislative hurdle for the country to become the first in Southeast Asia to enact such a law.
June 18 2024, 08:15
A fire broke out at a hospital in Iran’s north, killing nine patients, state media reported. The blaze started at 2200GMT at Qaem Hospital in the city of Rasht, about 205 miles northwest of the capital Tehran, state TV said, leaving six women and three men dead.