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Cultivating community: Newport Pride founders open city’s first Pride Center

The couple behind the Newport Out tourism website opened the city’s first Pride Center this month, the latest effort they have championed in support of LGBTQ+ residents and visitors.

On Pride Month, Corporate America keeps getting it wrong
Companies like Target and Starbucks will do anything ― including jettisoning their values ― to make bad headlines go away and calm investors.

Golden age: Poet-photographer flips the script at the MFA
The artist will perform during the Museum of Fine Arts Juneteenth free open house on Monday, June 19.

Dolly Parton is healing our divided nation, one roller coaster at a time

‘Drag Me to Dinner’ puts the ‘kitsch’ in ‘kitchen’

Rhody Pride: Events to celebrate Pride around the Ocean State

In Florida, it’s out of the streets and into the (metaphorical) closets

Boston streets are vibrant with the colors of Pride as parade returns after 3-year hiatus

Your guide to Saturday’s Boston Pride parade

More LGBTQ Pride Month Headlines

Biden decries rash of ‘cruel’ state laws targeting rights of LGBTQ+ individuals

President Biden forcefully pushed back Thursday against a rash of "cruel" state laws curtailing the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, including transgender youths, saying the measures are being adopted by "prejudiced people" and pledging that his administration will stand up for those being targeted.

THINGS TO DO

Best things to do in Rhode Island this week: June 9-16

This week: the Newport Pride Center opens its doors, a Billy Joel tribute in Providence, sea glass festival, PVD Porchfest, and more.

Biden unveils LGBTQ+ proposals, but postpones White House Pride Month event due to poor air quality

The Biden administration announced initiatives designed to protect LGBTQ+ communities from attack, help young people with mental health issues and homelessness, and counter book bans, though the effects may be limited.

Boston’s LGBTQ+ Pride parade returns after 3-year hiatus with new organizers, inclusive mission

Organizers say the parade has brought roughly 1 million visitors to Boston in the past and they expect a similar turnout this year.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

During Pride Month, there is liberation and repression everywhere in America

Our kids are growing up with gay Disney characters and an acceptance that love is love, and who you are is who you are. And yet. This is also a country currently gripped by a horrific wave of anti-LGBTQ hate.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Bowed but unbroken, a defiant LGBTQ+ community begins Pride Month

This year’s events will be both festive and politically charged.

Photos: Boston kicks off LGBTQ+ Pride Month on City Hall Plaza

The City of Boston began Pride Month with a City Hall Plaza celebration Thursday. A Pride flag was raised over the city as about 200 attendees gathered under in the afternoon heat.

Governor, mayor kick off LGBTQ+ Pride Month with celebration on City Hall Plaza

This year marks the return of Boston’s annual Pride parade after it was canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, then scuttled in 2022 when organizers said they would disband amid complaints the group disregarded BIPOC and transgender community members.