MassEquality celebrates marriage victory
The magnitude of winning marriage equality in Massachusetts was best summed up at MassEquality's Dec. 5 victory gala by Evan Wolfson, the eternally optimistic head of the national organization Freedom to Marry. Standing onstage in the center of the Cyclorama in the South End, Wolfson praised the work of the army of marriage equality activists that surrounded him, raised an arm in victory and proclaimed, "We are one down, forty-nine to go!"
HIV/AIDS prevention gets back on track
A year into Gov. Deval Patrick's tenure in the corner office HIV/AIDS advocates say the administration, bolstered by the appointment of John Auerbach as commissioner of the Department of Public Health (DPH), has begun to reverse the damage done to the state's HIV prevention efforts under Patrick's predecessor, Mitt Romney.
CDC won't release HIV stats showing higher rates of infection
The official focus of the National HIV Prevention Conference, held Dec. 2-5 in Atlanta, was newly published research on HIV prevention, but the data that generated the most buzz at the conference was not anything on the official program.
Lexington parents get their day in court
A three-judge panel heard arguments Dec. 5 in the appeal of Parker v. Lexington, a federal lawsuit brought by four Lexington parents who object to the use of pro-gay materials in the classroom without prior parental notice. U.S. District Court Judge Mark Wolf dismissed the lawsuit in February because he said that parents do not have the right to dictate public school curriculum.
Civic leader appointed to GLAD board
Adrienne R. Benton of Roxbury was appointed to Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders' (GLAD) Board of Directors at its Sept. 20 board meeting.
Still wrecked after all these years
There's good news and bad news for fans of TraniWreck and Wreckage, the deliciously demented performance art cabarets that have livened up Boston's drag scene for the last three years. Truth Serum Productions has lost its residency at The Milky Way, and with no home base the future of Wreckage, beyond the next two scheduled shows, is up in the air. The good news is that Aliza Shapiro, the brains and sweat behind Truth Serum (and behind Wreckage's velour-smooth MC, Heywood Wakefield,) isn't going anywhere.
'If you are hungry, we will feed you'
Thirty-two years ago, Diane Sidorowicz was a young woman searching for signs of lesbian life beyond the local bar scene. With few resources for gay people available in 1975, she devoured the pages of Gay Community News, a Boston-based weekly.
Patrick picks two LGBT advocates for domestic violence council
Gov. Deval Patrick last month appointed two LGBT domestic violence advocates, Curt Rogers, executive director of the Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project, and Sabrina Santiago, chair of the GLBT Domestic Violence Coalition, to the Governor's Council to Address Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.
Back to Bacharach
I think I have Euro-envy. If Michael Ball, a British musical theater performer with a rich but earnestly straight-up delivery, were American I'd say he was dangerously close to Michael Bolton territory.
Love Is Wicked
Brick and Lace isn't an '80s TV show about female cops, nor is it the new code for butch/femme. (Femme/slightly less femme, maybe.) This fresh duo is a pair of sisters from Jamaica who bring a reggae sensibility to dance music.
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