Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Wednesday that her administration will stand up an Office of LGBTQ+ Advancement that will be tasked with developing policies and programs to empower Bostonians in those communities.
City officials are seeking an executive director to lead the new office, which will work alongside other departments and community organizations. Wu's chief of equity and inclusion, Mariangely Solis Cervera, said the new office aims to have two full-time employees by fiscal year 2023 and enough budgeted funds to handle a range of programming.
"For too long, members of our LGBTQ+ community have had to invent systems of safety and support for themselves while those in power have looked on or away," Wu said at a press conference announcing the new office."For too long, they've needed to find resilience in the absence of protection. And for too long, many of us outside the community failed to act.
Sen. Julian Cyr, a Truro Democrat and former chair of the Massachusetts Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Youth, cautioned that elected officials in Massachusetts may be growing complacent on LGBTQ issues.
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