Maura Healey

The road to equity and equality for LGBTQ women will run through these female candidates in 2018.

Because Jesus loves everyone (except transgender people apparently).

Opponents of the law say they were told they had submitted enough signatures to put the recall effort on the 2018 ballot.

The legislature asked her to provide rules or make recommendations to businesses and law enforcement prior to full implementation of the measure.

For Maura Healey, few fights feel quite as personal as the effort to toughen civil rights protections for the state’s transgender population.

Boston is among the first cities in New England to institute gender-neutral restrooms in their city halls, says Mayor Martin Walsh.

Even before taking office, Maura Healey made news by becoming the nation’s first openly gay elected attorney general, and says she’s glad the barrier has been broken.

Massachusetts became the first state to elect an openly gay attorney general, while the gay candidate in Maine’s gubernatorial race narrowly lost his chance to make history. Nationally, gay-rights activists worried that conservative gains in Congress would hamper their bid for federal anti-bias legislation.

BOSTON — Democrat Maura Healey has won the race for Massachusetts attorney general, topping Republican John Miller to become the nation’s first openly gay candidate elected to the top law enforcement job.

This year’s election night is likely to be an important one for the LGBT history books: Voters in Massachusetts are expected to elect the nation’s first-ever openly gay state attorney general, and voters in Maine could very well elect the nation’s first-ever openly gay governor. Two candidates for Congress could well become the first openly gay Republican elected …