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To the Editor: Last Tuesday, April 26, many of us attended and many spoke at the Oak Bluffs select board meeting to ask the select board to fly the Progress Pride flag for Pride month (June) in a place of high visibility that would signal to visitors and Islanders alike that the town is proud […]

Drag Race UK fave Tia Kofi is plotting global pop music domination with her new single, “Heart Beating”, with K-Pop star MRSHLL.

The Oak Bluffs select board approved the raising of the Progress Pride flag on town property in a 4-1 vote on Tuesday with select board member Jason Balboni casting the lone dissenting vote. The lengthy meeting was the board’s first in-person session since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was attended by dozens of […]

Alex Bramham, activist for LGB Alliance and Conservative candidate in the 2022 council elections, has been suspended from the party.

On Monday, Oak Bluffs Parks Commission voted 2-1 to allow an LGBTQ+ Pride Flag Raising Ceremony at  Ocean Park on Wednesday, June 1, the first day of National Pride Month. The specifics of the actual flag raising are contingent on Tuesday’s select board decision whether to allow the Progress Pride flag to be raised on […]

The Martha’s Vineyard branch of the NAACP and the Oak Bluffs Business Association will be appearing before the Oak Bluffs Parks Commission on Monday, April 25, and the Oak Bluffs select board on Tuesday, April 26, to request the approval of LGBTQ+Pride activities for the first Martha’s Vineyard Pride week.  In addition to a Queer […]

Daniel Quasar designed the updated Pride flag, but unlike the original rainbow flag's designer, Gilbert Baker, Quasar's Progress flag isn't given freely to the community...

The team will show support for people of different sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

"Stand up, speak up, show up, and act."

Despite improvements in working conditions, harassment and discrimination continue to affect the retention of LGBTQ+ physicists; creating positive workplace climates could help.