While once parents of schoolchildren needed to be informed before books dealing with homosexual and transgender themes were introduced into a classroom, that's no longer the case, a homosexuality advocate said.
Eileen Dugas, a former early education teacher and current coordinator of South Coast LGBTQ Network, recently described what she considers progress to The Standard-Times of New Bedford, stemming from mainstreaming "the LGBTQ community into culture and religion" during the past three decades.
A short road running through the campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod has been renamed because its namesake fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and supported slavery.
Maury Lane is now officially called Marie Tharp Lane. The school has erected a temporary sign and plans to replace it with a permanent sign eventually, according to The Cape Cod Times.
