3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (255+ words) AMHERST — Gender-neutral bathrooms that will be built out on the Garden Level of the expanded and renovated Jones Library are getting $50,000 from the state’s fiscal year 2027 budget. The money will be dedicated to creating the eight-stall, unisex bathroom, with floor-to-ceiling…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (881+ words) Known to many as the “Gayor of Northampton,” Clay Pearson was instrumental in getting Hampshire Pride launched in 2023, an annual event that continues to draw thousands of people to the city each May. An English teacher at Amherst Regional High…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1006+ words) AMHERST — An end-of-year event at Amherst Regional Middle School is drawing criticism after students were directed to a counselor whom some LGBTQIA+ students were prohibited from contacting because of no-contact orders stemming from an earlier Title IX case. Critics say…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (789+ words) NORTHAMPTON — Legal experts and transgender advocates in Massachusetts denounced Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision to uphold state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, calling it another effort to chip away at the civil rights for…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (543+ words) Daily Hampshire Gazette It was early May in 1983 and I was in downtown Northampton with my mom. The city had just hosted what would grow into our annual Pride Parade that morning, tiny compared to what the event has grown…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1230+ words) Submit your nominations for the Gazette's 2026 Person of the Year and Young Community Leader today! NORTHAMPTON — The leader of a national organization that for five decades has advocated for LGBTQ inclusion in the Catholic Church told a Northampton audience Monday…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (658+ words) Daily Hampshire Gazette When a government starts trashing books and banning fields of study, it has gone beyond censorship: democracy itself is under threat. In the wake of Hampshire College’s closure, Republican attacks on higher education — and liberal arts education…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (610+ words) BOSTON — As attempts to restrict books rise across the nation, authors, librarians and free speech advocates are rallying lawmakers to pass proposed legislation declaring that no material could be removed from school and public libraries for “personal, political or doctrinal…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (672+ words) HOLYOKE — At Translate Gender’s third-annual Trans Day of Visibility Resource and Art Fair last spring transformed the Holyoke Senior Center with rainbow paper chains looping across the walls, their colors complimenting the array of different pride flags stationed around the…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (743+ words) With book-banning attempts on the rise nationwide, Massachusetts legislators are working to strengthen protections for school and public libraries with “An Act Regarding Free Expression.” Earlier this month, the state Senate voted 35-3 to advance the bill (S.2726), which will now…...