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City councilors move to codify mayoral LGBTQIA2S+ office, create oversight commission
Summary
Councilors filed two companion ordinances to codify the mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement into city code and to create an independent oversight commission; both measures were referred to the Committee on Government Operations for review and working sessions.
Councilors introduced an ordinance to codify the mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement (MOLA) into city code and a separate ordinance to establish an LGBTQIA2S+ oversight commission, and both dockets were referred to the Committee on Government Operations for working sessions.
The sponsors said codifying MOLA would “ensure that Boston is not just reacting to moments of injustice, but proactively creating systems that affirm, protect, and uplift every member of this community,” and they described the oversight commission as a body “fully, truly representative of the LGBTQIA2S+ community” that would center voices of people with intersecting marginalized…
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