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DotOUT Scores Intergalactic Win!

DotOut won best float in the 2016 Boston Pride Parade! Thanks to all our sponsors and everyone who came out to help us play with power tools, fluff those fabrics,

DotOUT 2018-05-27T17:49:37-05:00 November 4th, 2016|Pride, Social|
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Feeling Like Glenn Close? DotOUT Second Year Running “Best Float” at Boston Pride

Six-time nominated actor Glenn Close knows a thing (or six) about nominations.  DotOUT knows a thing (or three) about the intense competition around earning the coveted "Best Float" at Boston

DotOUT 2018-05-27T17:51:02-05:00 October 25th, 2016|Pride, Social|
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DotOUT Wins (again) at Boston Pride 2014

For the second time in three years, DotOUT brought the Pride Parade win back to everyone's favorite Boston neighborhood!  On November 29, 2014, the Boston Pride Committee announced DotOUT won

DotOUT 2018-05-30T20:06:05-05:00 November 29th, 2014|Civic, Dot Day Parade, General Interest, Pride, Social|
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Metamorphosis: Embracing Change Glittered at Boston Pride

Channeling the power of the BUTTERFLY, DotOUT not only embraced change at this year's Boston Pride, we did it while overcoming half-ton obstacles! Saturday's weather began overcast but spirits were

DotOUT 2018-05-31T20:38:15-05:00 June 16th, 2014|Pride, Social|
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2014 Theme is Announced

DotOUT presents METAMORPHOSIS - EMBRACING CHANGE as year's float theme for Dorchester Day and Boston Pride parades. Dorchester's own LGBT group celebrates a decade of acceptance as change swept through

DotOUT 2018-05-31T20:42:12-05:00 June 9th, 2014|Dot Day Parade, Pride, Social|
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Float Planning in Full Force!

It's amazing what a few creative and energetic folks can do with a hot glue gun, jig saw, and a limited budget. This summer's Dot Day Parade and Boston Pride

DotOUT 2018-05-31T20:43:49-05:00 May 2nd, 2014|Civic, Dot Day Parade, Pride, Social, Tea Dance|
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DotOUT Best Float 2012

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF THE 2012 PARADE! By Boston Pride | Published: January 18, 2013 Hard work and ingenuity paid off for DotOUT in the Boston Pride parade.Thanks to

DotOUT 2018-05-31T21:46:01-05:00 January 18th, 2012|General Interest, Pride, Social|
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PRESS RELEASES

DotOUT Distributing Rainbow Flags to South Boston Businesses and Residences

I know we did fabulous, fun things in 2016… just can’t locate the pics right now!

DotOUT presents #WickedWhiteOUT as year’s float theme for DotDay and Boston Pride parades, 2015

DotOUT endorses Boston City Council Candidates, October 18, 2015

DotOUT selected as finalists in the category of Best Adaptation of Theme for the 2015 Boston Pride Parade

DotOUT presents METAMORPHOSIS-Embracing Change as year’s float theme for DotDay and Boston Pride parades, June 4, 2014

DotOUT hosts Statewide Candidate Forum on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2014

DotOUT endorsements for 2014 Democratic Primary are voted upon by membership, August 28, 2014

DotOUT hosts Boston Mayoral Candidates Forum, August 8, 2013

DotOUT endorses State Representative Marty Walsh for Boston Mayor, October 26, 2013

I know we did fabulous, fun things in 2012… just can’t locate the pics right now!

DotOUT endorses State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, State Reps. Marie St. Fleur and Willie Mae Allen, September 10, 2008

DotOUT to Host NiteOUT, November 1, 2005

DotOUT to honor Dorchester Activist, October 24, 2005

Anti Gay Marriage Amendment Goes Down in Defeat, September 14, 2005

DotOUT hosts 75 at fundraiser, February 19, 2005

DotOUT Endorses Linda Dorcena Forry, January 11, 2005

DOTOUT IN THE NEWS

DotOUT in the local blogs

Mayoral hopefuls get careful look from DotOUT By Gintautas Dumcius, News Editor, Dorchester Reporter, Aug. 9, 2013

DotOut’s float named best of Boston Pride 2012 Posted by Patrick Rosso, Boston Globe, January 23, 2013

September 2011 REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: DotOUT endorses Craig Galvin in District 3

Four at-large seats; seven eye one of them October 26, 2011

DotOUT endorses Arroyo, Pressley, Connolly, and Flaherty October 24, 2011

DotOUT backs Flaherty and three councillors running for reelection October 23, 2011

September 2009 Menino falls short as DotOUT fails to back a mayoral candidate

With Chang-Diaz’s nomination official, Wilkerson loses key LGBT support Bay Windows, October 2, 2008

Primary results a mixed bag for LGBT community Bay Windows, September 17, 2008

DotOUT Endorsements New England Blade, September 10, 2008

Pressing the flesh Bay Windows, March 15, 2007

Under a rainbow flag, linking the Dots Boston Globe, October 30, 2005
By Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff  |  October 30, 2005

For years, friends Daniel Cushing and Michele Gillen talked about a way of combining their love of politics with their Dorchester neighborhood activism.

They knew that there must be others like them, gay residents in Dorchester, who would want to be part of a political neighborhood group, one that would speak out on issues close to their hearts, such as gay marriage and AIDS prevention.

With Dorchester full of so many fragmented sub-communities, Cushing, from Jones Hill, and Gillen, from Adams Village, decided to connect the Dots with a name and a face… Read more on the Boston Globe site

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