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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 sustenance and drink, 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 Rule Student Chapter of the Year was Northeastern University Educational facility of Law. 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 like 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
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 contain their grant award elevated to a 10-year grant, rather than a 3-year award.
This grant gave NAGLY "The Foremost Pride Celebration Ever!"
Community Impact Projects
Wednesdays, 12:00-4:00 PM
Salem Common
Rain or Heat Location: NAGLY Salem
We are confident to host Collective 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 build personal values
• Bolster meaning of community belonging
• Promote service engagement
• Distinguish personal strengths and build resilience
Volunteers Needed
Do you love to cook or l
Stances of Faiths on Gay Issues: Roman Catholic Church
BACKGROUND
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination in the world, 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 organization 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 leaders that is entirely male, with women excluded from the priesthood and thus from key governance roles.
LGB Super Gay Poems: Reception and Readings
Readings from Community Time Contributors and Conversation with Stephanie Burt.
Join us for a THANK YOU celebration and reception in the R&D Store as group members, MASS MoCA staff, and invited artists peruse 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, Event weekend free for all!
The poems in Super Queer Poems represent the excellent 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 queer 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 established and poets who warrant to be so — share their alienation, their euphoria, and their encounters with a protean people as it discovers recent
Super Gay Poems: Reception and Readings
Readings from Community Time Contributors and Conversation with Stephanie Burt.
Join us for a THANK YOU celebration and reception in the R&D Store as group members, MASS MoCA staff, and invited artists peruse 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, Event weekend free for all!
The poems in Super Queer Poems represent the excellent 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 queer 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 established and poets who warrant to be so — share their alienation, their euphoria, and their encounters with a protean people as it discovers recent