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Matisse DuPont (right) spoke to potential employers while attending the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce's job fair focused on the transgender community on Jan. 17.ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF Picture credit: Boston Globe

For the transgender community, work can be a difficult world to navigate

Navigating the world of work can be enormously challenging for members of the transgender community, and changing jobs is especially tricky. Nationwide, transgender people are twice as likely to be unemployed as cisgender adults (whose gender identity corresponds with their sex assigned at birth), and they make a third less money, with a much smaller...

State’s LGBTQ chamber sets up roots in Easthampton

January 2023. While the COVID-19 pandemic delayed plans into the western part until this past year, the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce’s membership base now exceeds 450 members — 150 of which are based in western Massachusetts, according to Grace Moreno, executive director of the chamber. In the coming year, she has a goal to...