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In brief: Dust off your Speedo and Swim for Life
This year’s Swim for Life will be held on Saturday, Sept. 6, although various events will run throughout the weekend.
For Your Consideration
Kathy Griffin is a funny lady, but you wouldn’t know it from this disc. The uber-fag hag, reality TV star, and D-list celebrity knows how to tell a funny story, but her ability to sell a joke far outweighs her ability to write one.
Eagle Shooting Heroes
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen arthouse stalwart Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, the champion brooder who starred in moody films like Lust Caution and 2046, play a campy, cackling, mustachioed villain.
In brief: Wanted: a good gay screenplay
The One In Ten Screenplay Contest, the largest screenplay contest dedicated to the positive portrayal of the LGBT community, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with this year’s contest.
In brief: Transgender Emergency Fund puts on a show
Created to provide monetary relief to low income transgender people of the central Massachusetts community, the Transgender Emergency Fund (TEF) will be holding its second fundraiser on July 11. The TEF is a relatively new organization created by Jesse Pack, who works for AIDS Project Worcester
Boys in Heat
This scorching collection of erotica will make you forget all those other cookie-cutter anthologies faster than you can say, "fire in the hole."
O
A band that often uses a tap dancer for percussion instead of drums? With a new album that’s being called O by default because the cover has no title, just a big circle?
Kate the Great
Even on a muggy Monday morning, it’s immediately clear why legendary lesbian comedian Kate Clinton is at the top of her game. After 25 years in the business she’s as fast and funny as ever, ad libbing zingers about politics and Provincetown. She talks about Hillary, hostility and hilarity.
McCain plays gay card, will Obama ante up?
Late last month a group of about 100 movers and shakers on the religious right met in Denver and agreed to support Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign. To those who followed the 2004 presidential race news of McCain’s recent efforts to woo the culture warriors of the religious right provoked an awful sense of d?j? vu.
Indoor tennis anyone?
Now in its 11th year, the Boston Indoor Tennis Classic will continue its mission of fostering good will in the GLBT community while raising money for the Fenway Community Health Center during its annual tournament July 18-20 at the Woburn Racquet Club and the Winchester Racquet Club.
Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Much has been written about the connections between creativity and madness but editor Sabrina Chapadjeive postulates (citing Syliva Plath, Anne Sexton and Virginia Woolf for starters) that female artists are particularly prone to self-destruction.
Taleteller of two cities
Beantown Cuban Johnny Diaz is on a Miami Manhunt. He talks about his new novel... and why the heat in Florida makes people sex-crazy.
San Fran activists protest HRC
Out in San Francisco, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) continues to deal with the fallout from its decision last fall to break with other national LGBT organizations and support a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) without trans-inclusive gender identity protections.
Final budget includes boosts for LGBT, HIV programs
The final state budget for Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) that was passed by the legislature on July 2 includes funding increases for every state LGBT program and for the state’s HIV/AIDS budget line item.
BPD seeks cooperation of club owners in reducing crime
Detectives from the Boston Police Department’s Community Disorders Unit (CDU) told a gathering of LGBT bar and club owners June 25 that there has been a steady rise in LGBT-related hate crime investigations in the city in the past four years, particularly in police districts D4, which covers the South End, Back Bay, Lower Roxbury and Fenway; and C11, which covers Dorchester.
Pride scrolling
Stonewall Brawl turns the Stonewall Riots, the event that marks the birth of the modern gay rights movement, into an action packed video game in the mode of classic side-scrollers like Street Fighter.
Breaking news: MA legislature readying to take up repeal of 1913 law preventing out-of-state gay marriages
The Massachusetts state legislature will likely take up a bill to repeal the 1913 law that prevents non-resident same-sex couples from marrying before the close of the legislative session at the end of this month.
Unsafe Schools Program?
Martha Swindler, the gay/straight alliance (GSA) advisor at Barnstable High School, said for many students at her school being out or visibly LGBT means being a moving target.
Menino marks National HIV Testing Day
June 27 was National HIV Testing Day, and Mayor Menino did his part by getting himself tested at JRI Health in Downtown Boston, where he was joined by officials from the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and representatives of several community health agencies. Menino joined dozens of mayors across the country in raising awareness about HIV screening as part of the fourth annual Mayors Campaign Against HIV.
Marketing association honors MassEquality ad campaign
MassEquality has long been praised for its political muscle, but last month the New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA) honored the organization for its media savvy. NEDMA gave MassEquality’s "It’s Wrong to Vote on Rights" television campaign first prize in its broadcast media category at the organization’s annual awards show, held June 11 at the Roxy in Boston.