Bay Windows
Youth Commission finds state lacks data on trans, other LGBT youth populations
In its 2008 annual report released this month, the Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth found the state lacking in its research on the health and safety needs of transgender youth and other more marginalized subsets of the LGBT youth community.
Becoming Jane Awesome
Some comic actors are known for their physical comedy, their funny voices, or their exaggerated facial expressions. The hilarious Jane Lynch, paradoxically, is recognizable for her seriousness.
Soul farce
A lawyer, a Catholic lector and a porn writer walk into a bar... That’s not the set-up for a joke, that’s the life of South End resident Scott Pomfret. How does he reconcile being Catholic with being an erotica writer? Read the book!
Not your grandma’s lunch crowd
Between the rainbow-colored streamers hanging from the doors and the boom box blasting Erasure it was clear that Emmanuel Church wasn’t hosting a traditional senior luncheon the morning of June 12.
She breaks for rainbows
Unpurling the Pride flag at R.I. Pride
Look forward in hope
Orfeo Group presents free production of Look Back in Anger
Cyndi Lauper on "True Colors"
With a new disc and a new tour, Cyndi Lauper’s true colors shine brighter than ever. She talks gay fans, being inspired by Alan Cumming, and the tour that’s put her literally all over the map.
Advocates hope for LGBT-inclusive domestic violence guidelines
Last week Gov. Deval Patrick declared the rising rates of domestic violence-related deaths a public health emergency, and LGBT domestic violence advocates believe the administration’s efforts could lead to increased training for law enforcement in responding to domestic violence within the LGBT community. The Patrick administration is working to update the law enforcement guidelines around domestic violence, and Curt Rogers, executive director of the Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project (GMDVP), said he hopes those guidelines will be LGBT-inclusive.
Love and Other Disasters
This is the message of this sweet and formulaic ensemble romantic comedy about pretty Londoners looking for love while they balance big dreams with the quasi-reality of their quasi-bohemian lifestyles: love means never having to say you’re sorry you ripped off Breakfast at Tiffany’s, or any number of other romantic movies.
Fenway pairs with BPD on LGBT safety
This summer Fenway Community Health’s Violence Recovery Program (VRP) and the Boston Police Department (BPD) are teaming up to launch a new public awareness campaign urging people to take precautions when meeting people in bars, online and in other venues. Beginning June 12 Fenway outreach workers will begin distributing posters in LGBT bars and clubs giving people tips on staying safe, and later this summer Fenway and BPD will roll out a pamphlet with more detailed safety information. The launch of the poster campaign was timed to coincide with Boston Pride.
Mommie Dearest
The lifestyles of the rich and twisted in Savage Grace
Fun in Girls’ Shorts
The hit-to-miss ratio on these queer shorts compilations can be depressingly low, but happily this one only has one clunker (That would be the arty ode to teen angst, Can You Take It?, a stylishly shot but ultimately pointless exercise that strengthened my conviction that just as we don’t let toddlers play with matches, film school students should not be allowed to watch David Lynch movies.)
Head to the South Coast for more Pride
This weekend is the last hurrah for Boston Pride 2008, but the celebration continues on the South Coast the following weekend. On June 22 Southcoast Equality, an LGBT advocacy and community organization formed earlier this year, will hold greater New Bedford’s first Pride event, an outdoor deck party at the Bristol Building on Purchase Street in New Bedford.
Sciortino signature saga continues
In the latest twist in the 34th Middlesex House race, challenger Bob Trane, a Somerville alderman hoping to unseat openly gay Rep. Carl Sciortino (D-Somerville), accused his opponent of trying to deny him access to the ballot by challenging his nomination signatures. The challenge was filed by one of Sciortino’s neighbors working with Sciortino’s attorney, but Sciortino said he has had no role in the signature challenge.
She food salad
Top Chef competitors Jen Biesty and Zoi Antonitsas heat up Pride
Boston Pride revs up with tribute to Moving Violations icon
Leather clad lesbians on motorcycles converge at Faneuil Hall; Mayor declares "Woody Woodward Day" in Boston.
The Tskinny from Tsongas
We caught up with the newest member of the Mass. Congressional Delegation, U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, when the Democratic State Convention came to her hometown on June 7.
Magic Misik
Zili Misik set to party at the Dyke March
It’s electric! Pridelights celebrates 15 years with hot drag queens
Despite the unrelenting 90-degree heat the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza was packed the evening of June 10 for the 15th annual Pridelights tree lighting ceremony, the kick-off to Pride in the South End. And if it wasn’t hot enough for the crowd, the evening’s performers, in particular Verna Turbulence and her crew of Boston drag performers, kicked up the heat a few more degrees.
Footsteps to follow in
Even before she set off from the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell to participate in the 23rd annual AIDS Walk Boston on June 1, Bette Byrnes had already completed a long journey. As she has since moving away from Boston in 2002, Byrnes boarded a plane from her home in Clearwater, Florida, to participate in this year’s walk.