New England Pride Events
By Sue O’Connell | Thursday Jun 4, 2009
New England Pride Events!

Melissa Etheridge for Boston Pride?
By Ethan Jacobs | Thursday Feb 19, 2009
LGBT Bostonians have spoken, and they want Melissa Etheridge. The big question is, does she want us back?

Sistahs (and brothers) celebrate Pride
By Laura Kiritsy | Thursday Jun 19, 2008
"There’s always going to be struggles but today is about us getting together and celebrating Pride, pride in our unity, pride in our race and pride in our community," Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons said as she kicked off the annual Sistah Summit on June 13.

NOT overheard at Boston Pride
By Bay Windows Staff | Thursday Jun 19, 2008
Despite all the crazy things we saw and heard at Boston Pride 2008, here’s some stuff we definitely didn’t overhear along the parade route or on City Hall Plaza.

Seen and heard at Boston Pride
By Bay Windows Staff | Thursday Jun 19, 2008
Oh, the things you see and hear as the gay parade passes by or when you wade through a mob of thousands of festive queers. When no one was looking, we wrote it all down. Here’s a compilation of our favorite sights, gripes, pithy observations and bad puns at this year’s parade and festival.

Behind the scenes at the Parade
By Ethan Jacobs | Thursday Jun 19, 2008
Tremont Street was abuzz on the morning of the Boston Pride Parade, as marching contingents spent the hours prior to the big kickoff putting the finishing touches on their costumes and floats, preening for photographers and practicing their marching routines.

Rainbow Bright: Gays get lots of love at Pride, ’green’ theme not so much
By Ethan Jacobs | Wednesday Jun 18, 2008
It’s hard to imagine an event that could bring together Gov. Deval Patrick and his family, the New England Leather Alliance, the Cambridge Friends School, the corporate representatives of Frito Lay, and the Theater Offensive. But that’s just a smattering of the more than 130 groups that waved to the crowds from the Boston Pride Parade route on June 14.

It’s electric! Pridelights Pridelights celebrates 15 years with hot drag queens
By Ethan Jacobs | Thursday Jun 12, 2008
Despite the unrelenting 90-degree heat the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza was packed the evening of June 10 for the 15th annual Pridelights tree lighting ceremony, the kick-off to Pride in the South End. And if it wasn’t hot enough for the crowd, the evening’s performers, in particular Verna Turbulence and her crew of Boston drag performers, kicked up the heat a few more degrees.

With love and pride, Governor Deval Patrick’s daughter comes out publicly
By Laura Kiritsy | Thursday Jun 12, 2008
On the eve of Pride Parade, Governor’s daughter comes out publicly

Boston Dyke March: It isn’t just for dykes anymore
By Megan Prock | Thursday Jun 12, 2008
For those who despair about the increasingly tame spectacle of the Pride Parade, take heart: the dykes are on the march. On the evening of June 13 the Dyke March Boston continues its tradition of taking to the streets of Back Bay with a diverse contingent of dykes and allies; everyone from butches with babies to topless trannybois to sultry femmes with sex-positive picket signs.

Head to the South Coast for more Pride
By Ethan Jacobs | Wednesday Jun 11, 2008
This weekend is the last hurrah for Boston Pride 2008, but the celebration continues on the South Coast the following weekend. On June 22 Southcoast Equality, an LGBT advocacy and community organization formed earlier this year, will hold greater New Bedford’s first Pride event, an outdoor deck party at the Bristol Building on Purchase Street in New Bedford.

New England Transgender Pride puts the T first
By Tynan Power | Wednesday Jun 11, 2008
Observers on Main Street in Northampton might have been surprised to see a Pride march passing by on June 7. After all, the city’s 27-year-old LGBT Pride march was held back on May 3. But this time around it was the New England Transgender Pride March that was taking to the streets - the first such event ever held in New England.

Boston Pride revs up with tribute to Moving Violations icon
By Ethan Jacobs | Monday Jun 9, 2008
Leather clad lesbians on motorcycles converge at Faneuil Hall; Mayor declares "Woody Woodward Day" in Boston.

City pols turn out for Pride flag raising
By Laura Kiritsy | Friday Jun 6, 2008
The 2008 Boston Pride festivities officially kicked off with the raising of the rainbow Pride flag over City Hall during a lunchtime ceremony on June 6.

Youth Pride charts progress and problems still facing LGBT youth
By Ethan Jacobs | Tuesday May 13, 2008
Between the parade, the drag kings, the rock and hip-hop acts, the fabulous outfits and the competitors squaring off on the Dance Dance Revolution game console, Youth Pride was a non-stop party. But this year’s theme, "Actual Reality," made it a party with a pressing purpose: ending harassment and violence against LGBT youth and empowering them to live healthier lives. As Youth Pride chair Kelly Lydon told the hundreds of youth who turned out on the Boston Common on May 10, reality for many LGBT youth includes harassment, violence and suicide.

Cinco de Pride: Latino Pride celebrates five years
By Susanna Baird | Thursday May 8, 2008
Massachusetts likes to do things first: the first same-sex marriages, first public school, first highway, first subway, first chocolate chip cookie. Five years ago, we grabbed bragging rights to another first: First Latino Pride event in the country. Celebrate five years of Latino GLBT Pride this weekend and through next week. Somos Latin@s LGBT Coalition has organized a wide variety of events, so take your pick.

Get real: Youth Pride takes to the streets May 10
By Susanna Baird | Thursday May 8, 2008
G? L? B? T? Got enough youthful energy to cram all your Pride into one awesome day? (Do you kids even say "awesome"?) Head to the Boston Common for Massachusetts’ 14th Annual Youth Pride this Saturday, May 10.

Youth commission to honor Boston Pride, PFLAG leaders
By Laura Kiritsy | Thursday May 1, 2008
The Friends of LGBT youth will honor Boston Pride Committee President Linda DeMarco and Greater Boston PFLAG Executive Director Pam Garramone at this year’s Sunset Soiree at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge on May 8.

Pride goes green
By Ethan Jacobs | Thursday Apr 3, 2008
This week the committee announced the theme for this year’s parade, "Sustaining our community, conserving our world," and the more green-oriented theme will likely win over the critics. It has already drawn praise from the bloggers at QueerToday.com, among the most vocal critics of the 2007 theme.