LGBTQ+ Trans, Nonbinary & Gender Expansive Events in Boston

Grace Sterling Stowell

Executive Director, BAGLY

Grace Sterling Stowell helped found the Boston Alliance of LGBTQ Youth (BAGLY) in 1980 and has led it as executive director, growing it from a volunteer support group into a statewide nonprofit. Stowell is a founding member of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth and a longtime Steering Committee member of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and helped lead the campaigns that added gender identity to state nondiscrimination law in 2011 and 2016 and defended them at the ballot in 2018. Stowell is described as the longest-tenured transgender executive director in the country.