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Alex Morash
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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