Boston: Last News

Boston Children’s Hospital recently released a statement referencing “hostile internet activity, phone calls, and harassing emails including threats of violence” to staff and clinicians in response to public criticism of its Gender Multispeciality Services (GeMS) Program.The August 16 statement references an article and “online attention.” Though it does not clearly name the sources of this commentary, there are a few avenues with which the online chatter took shape.Just a few days prior, a conservative site called The Post Millennial published a headline about the hospital’s trans care.

WGBH.For obvious reasons, it wouldn’t be long before the confrontation between the pro- and anti-LGBTQ demonstrators escalated to a point where police intervention was needed. Hood, along with two counter-protesters who identify as “anti-fascists,” was arrested on disturbing the peace charges, handcuffed, and transported to the Boston Police Department’s West Roxbury precinct.Hours after the protest, residents stood outside Loring Greenough House to show support for their LGBTQ neighbors. “We’re out here making sure that people hear us,” a woman named Nicole told WGBH, noting that “rage” brought her to the counter-protest. Another counter-protester, Courtney Ignace, noted that there has been an increase in right-wing extremist groups holding demonstrations.

The Pryde, Boston’s first-ever LGBTQ senior home, currently under construction, was vandalized with threatening hate speech on Sunday, July 10. LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., a nonprofit that organized construction of the senior housing project, posted images of the graffiti on its Facebook page, which included the phrases “The faggots will die by fire” and “die slow.”On its Facebook page, LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc. condemned the vandalism.“We were heartbroken to wake up this morning to the terrible news that The Pryde was vandalized overnight with hate speech and threats spray painted on virtually every sign,” the statement read.

accused of faking her background — insisting it was everyone else’s fault for assuming she was Spanish.Alec Baldwin’s wife told The New York Times in an interview posted early Wednesday that she had always hidden her parent’s true background as bourgeois Bostonians purely in an innocent attempt to protect their privacy.And she claimed she was raised by a father with such “deep, deep, deep bonds” with the European nation that, “When we weren’t in Spain, we called it ‘we brought Spain into our home.’”The world then misrepresented her innocent pronouncement about “going home” to Spain, because they did not realize that “home is where my parents are going to be,” Baldwin claimed to the outlet.

Mimi Jones was a civil rights activist who was the subject of a nationally famous photograph of a “swim-in” in St. Augustine, Florida.Jones was just a teenager in 1964 when she was galvanized by the Civil Rights Movement to travel from her home in Georgia to St.