Today, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders represented a transgender girl before Maine's highest court, arguing that her school had failed in its responsibility to treat her the same as other students.

Maine's supreme court on Thursday cleared the way for a state ethics commission to obtain the donor names of a national anti-gay marriage group that helped defeat a gay marriage law in 2009 before the practice was legalized by voters last year.

Elected officials gathered on Friday in front of Boston City Hall today to raise the rainbow flag to mark the official start of Pride Week in Boston.