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News in Brief: June 16, 2014

15 June 2014 - 10:38pm | jadams
by Jonathan Adams

Pride Parade, Boston
An estimated 25,000 people took part in Boston Pride parade on Saturday, the culmination of the Pride festival, which began on June 6. The parade was the 44th annual event to celebrate the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender community in Boston, and push for greater equality for the community. Boston City Mayor Marty and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick led the parade as grand marshals.

St. Patrick’s Peace Parade Grows in Support as Veterans for Peace, LGBT Groups Remain Excluded from Main Event

17 March 2014 - 8:28am | jadams
by Jonathan Adams

BOSTON/South Boston – For the fourth consecutive year, an alternative St. Patrick’s Peace Parade was held in South Boston amidst continued controversy over the banning of certain groups from the main parade by its organizers. 

 

The Allied War Veterans Council (AWVC), which is based in South Boston and has organized the event since the 40s, has upheld its ban on a veterans’ peace group and LGBT groups, despite mounting pressure to make the parade more inclusive.

Same-Sex Marriage Supporters Return to Cambridge City Hall to Celebrate Defeat of DOMA

28 June 2013 - 11:26pm | superuser
by Tate Williams
Cambridge, Mass. - It was right here on the steps of Cambridge City Hall, on May 17, 2004, where it all started. To the cheers of a crowd waiting eagerly outside, Cambridge opened its doors at the stroke of midnight on the day Massachusetts became the first state to cross the federal law of the land and allow same sex marriage. 

Mass. LGBT Advocates Protest Yes Vote on Maine's Anti-Gay Marriage Question 1

8 November 2009 - 9:49pm | superuser
by Jason Pramas

BOSTON/Boston Common - Immediately following the yes vote on Maine's Question 1, the "Maine Same-Sex Marriage People's Veto," over 100 Mass. gay marriage advocates held a protest on Boston Common next to the Park Street T stop on Wednesday evening. The question was put on the ballot by Stand for Marriage Maine - a coalition of conservative religious and social organizations - to overturn Maine's recently-passed gay marriage law. It was opposed by the progressive coalition Protect Maine Equality.

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