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Jan 1, 20227 min read

Options Top Ten Most Read Stories Of 2021

Options Magazine has had a busy year online. While the magazine printed just one edition this year, it now does a twice a month...

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These Are The Songs Every Queer Needs On Their Holiday Playlist

Alex Morash

Dec 20, 20217 min read

These Are The Songs Every Queer Needs On Their Holiday Playlist

It's that time of year again, Christmas is just days away and the holiday season is in full swing. So Options Magazine’s music experts*...

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RI Queer Voices Come To Life At Showing Of “The Time Is Already”

Kwana Adams

Nov 30, 20214 min read

RI Queer Voices Come To Life At Showing Of “The Time Is Already”

Options Magazine visited Red Ink Library, a new non-profit leftist space, for a screening of “The Time Is Already” that tells the tale of...

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The Queer Things We Found At Red Ink Library

Kwana Adams

Nov 30, 20213 min read

The Queer Things We Found At Red Ink Library

Options Magazine visited Red Ink Library for a film screening and discovered among the anti-capitalist books and socialist leaflets, not...

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On Giving Tuesday Options Launches Its Own Patreon Page

Alex Morash

Nov 30, 20212 min read

On Giving Tuesday Options Launches Its Own Patreon Page

Options Magazine has launched a Patreon page to help fund the news outlet’s work reporting on Rhode Island’s LGBTQ community. The funds...

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Bradford Greer

Nov 16, 20211 min read

SHOUT!

Sharing our truth opened and closed quietly with one performance on Veteran’s Day Weekend as part of the URI Providence Campus Arts and...

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RI ComicCon Showcases The Expanding Inclusivity In Fiction

Alicia Wilder

Nov 14, 20213 min read

RI ComicCon Showcases The Expanding Inclusivity In Fiction

Options Magazine traveled to Rhode Island ComicCon, held from November 5 to 7 at the Dunkin Doughnuts Center, and discovered fairy...

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RI Pride’s Infusing Providence With Some New Orleans Joie De Vivre

Alex Morash

Oct 27, 20213 min read

RI Pride’s Infusing Providence With Some New Orleans Joie De Vivre

Rhode Island Pride is back, gearing up for June 2022, and they want you to join them Saturday, October 30 in celebrating our history and...

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Services for LGBTQ+ Survivors of Domestic Abuse Enhanced During Covid

Kassie Hawkins

Jul 31, 20212 min read

Services for LGBTQ+ Survivors of Domestic Abuse Enhanced During Covid

by Kassie Hawkins, Manager of LGBTQ+ Programs, Sojourner House COVID has been difficult for everyone, but especially LGBTQ+ victims of...

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Celebrate Equality, Pride + Freedom with PVD UNITED

Press Release

Jun 15, 20214 min read

Celebrate Equality, Pride + Freedom with PVD UNITED

Providence communities reunite with festivities beginning June 18. PVD United is a collection of events in Providence this June offering...

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Queer Vespers: Online Ecumenical Worship, Pride Service June 18

Rev. Gwen Howard

Jun 15, 20214 min read

Queer Vespers: Online Ecumenical Worship, Pride Service June 18

In 2018, Brian Kovacs and I were discussing the idea that the religious and spiritual needs of members of the LGBTQIA community were...

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Call to Action: Gender Inclusive Restroom Act

Jen Stevens

May 19, 20211 min read

Call to Action: Gender Inclusive Restroom Act

LGBTQ Action RI is calling for bill supporters to urge Senate Judiciary Chair Cindy Coyne to schedule a hearing for Senate bill 0755.

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Survey Released for Wanderground Lesbian Research Project

Mev Miller

May 10, 20212 min read

Survey Released for Wanderground Lesbian Research Project

Merv Miller is researching Rhode Island lesbians’ relationships with and contributions to the late-20th-century Women In Print Movement.

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Kim Stowell

Mar 11, 20212 min read

"Options Saved My Life"

I can't tell you how many people during the years I worked at Options, came up to me and told me how Options saved them.

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Page Wooller

Feb 1, 20213 min read

Imagining Life After COVID

There is general optimism about 2021, and the future seems bright so, I posed one question to LGBTQ+ people.

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Powwow Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Feb. 2-6

Myra Shays

Feb 1, 20211 min read

Powwow Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Feb. 2-6

"Two-Spirit” is the Native American term for people with both female and male energies.

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Community Archives Coming to Providence Public Library

Kate Wells

Feb 1, 20211 min read

Community Archives Coming to Providence Public Library

This project aims to provide a dynamic space to learn about, reflect on, and engage in the histories of RI's LGBTQ+ communities.

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Cathy Gorman

Feb 1, 20213 min read

Report From Sage/RI

Throughout this challenging time, SAGE-RI has remained committed to its mission.

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Myra Shays

Feb 1, 20211 min read

Passages: Donald Boss

A creative and energetic activist in the LGBT community died on December 22.

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Page Wooller

Dec 17, 20203 min read

Single and Socializing During Covid

Single LGBTQ+ community members share how their social lives have changed in the age of social distancing.

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