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Super Gay Poems: Reception and Readings
Readings from Community Day Contributors and Conversation with Stephanie Burt.
Join us for a Express gratitude YOU celebration and reception in the R&D Store as community members, MASS MoCA staff, and invited artists browse hand-chosen works from Super Gay Poems. The book’s editor Stephanie Burt — a major poet, literary critic and scholar — provides introductory background to each of the selections in a fun, Pride weekend free for all!
The poems in Super Gay Poems symbolize the great variety of queer and trans life itself after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. They include near-sonnets, iambic couplets, and rhymed quatrains; skinny dimeters and shaped poems; chatty free verse and intentionally inaccurate translations; the demotic and the rococo. Arranged in chronological order, the selections trace gay culture’s recent evolutions. Frank O’Hara, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, James Merrill, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Adrienne Rich, Chen Chen, essa ranapiri, and The Cyborg Jillian Weise — poets widely recognizable and poets who deserve to be so — divide their alienation, their euphoria, and their encounters with a protean community as it discovers novel
NAGLY Awarded Grant By Cummings Foundation
We're so excited and grateful that NAGLY was awarded a 10-year, $450,000 grant from Cummings Foundation (that's $45,000/year). We couldn't be happier or prouder about all that it will mean for LGBTQIA+ youth.
What is even more remarkable is that, out of the 150 grant recipients this year, NAGLY was one of only 25 organizations to include their grant award elevated to a 10-year grant, rather than a 3-year award.
This grant gave NAGLY "The Best Pride Celebration Ever!"
Community Impact Projects
Wednesdays, 12:00-4:00 PM
Salem Common
Rain or Heat Location: NAGLY Salem
We are proud to host Community Impact Projects in collaboration with the City of Salem.
LGBTQIA+ youth, ages 11-23, are welcome.
Benefits of Community Engagement:
• Cultivate individual and community identity
• Recover from grief or isolation
• Identify and construct personal values
• Bolster instinct of community belonging
• Promote service engagement
• Identify personal strengths and build resilience
Volunteers Needed
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Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Roman Catholic Church
BACKGROUND
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in the planet, with approximately 1.2 billion members across the globe. With its origins in the earliest days of Christianity, the Church traces its leadership––in the person of the Pope––to St. Peter, identified by Jesus as “the rock” on which the Church would be built.
The Catholic Church in the United States numbers over 70 million members, and is organized in 33 Provinces, each led by an archbishop. Each bishop answers directly to the Pope, not to an archbishop. Those Provinces are further divided into 195 dioceses, each led by a bishop. At the base of the organizational structure are local parishes, headed by a pastor, appointed by the local bishop. The Conference of Catholic Bishops in the United States meets semi-annually.
As part of a global corporation with its institutional center at the Vatican, the Catholic Church in America is shaped by worldwide societal and cultural trends. It is further shaped by leadership that is entirely male, with women excluded from the priesthood and thus from key leadership roles.
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SOCIAL & PROFESSIONAL EVENTS
Thank you for joining us at our 2025 Annual Gala!
On Thursday June 12, 2025, a sold out crowd joined us for our annual gala at the New England Aquarium. We were granted full access to the aquarium's exhibits, enjoyed a keynote speech from Democracy Forward's Sunu Chandy, honored community members and law students, indulged in food and sip, and basked in the glow of some fantastic drag performers.
Our 2025 Award Winners were: Matthew McTygue, Elyse Cherry, Tre'Andre Valentine, and Bill Keating. Our Law Student Chapter of the Year was Northeastern University School of Commandment. Our 2025 Alec Gray, Jr. Scholarship was awarded to Gordon Chan, a rising 3L at Boston University School of Law.
Thank you to everyone, including our attendees, membership, and sponsors for supporting our event and helping us to grow our scholarship fund.
If you would appreciate to donate to our scholarship fund individually you can do so here. Our scholarship recipients from past years are serving the queer and other marginalized communities in their professional careers. Supporting
Working to connect and allow Massachusetts LGBTQ legal professionals
SOCIAL & PROFESSIONAL EVENTS
Thank you for joining us at our 2025 Annual Gala!
On Thursday June 12, 2025, a sold out crowd joined us for our annual gala at the New England Aquarium. We were granted full access to the aquarium's exhibits, enjoyed a keynote speech from Democracy Forward's Sunu Chandy, honored community members and law students, indulged in food and sip, and basked in the glow of some fantastic drag performers.
Our 2025 Award Winners were: Matthew McTygue, Elyse Cherry, Tre'Andre Valentine, and Bill Keating. Our Law Student Chapter of the Year was Northeastern University School of Commandment. Our 2025 Alec Gray, Jr. Scholarship was awarded to Gordon Chan, a rising 3L at Boston University School of Law.
Thank you to everyone, including our attendees, membership, and sponsors for supporting our event and helping us to grow our scholarship fund.
If you would appreciate to donate to our scholarship fund individually you can do so here. Our scholarship recipients from past years are serving the queer and other marginalized communities in their professional careers. Supporting