AIDS Action awards lawmakers
AIDS Action Committee presented its second annual Commitment to Action Awards Nov. 8 at its annual meeting, honoring people and organizations that have distinguished themselves over the past year in working to end the AIDS epidemic.
Remembering victims of violence
Members of Boston's transgender community and their allies will celebrate the ninth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to memorialize members of the transgender community who have been murdered and whose murders were motivated by anti-trans hatred, on Nov. 18.
Rates of STDs rising among gay men
For the sixth year in a row the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found an increase in reported cases of syphilis. New national surveillance data released by the CDC Nov. 13 suggests that new infections in men who have sex with men (MSM) are driving the overall increase in infections.
A funny thing happened at the polls
This past election cycle saw the campaigns of four of five viable, qualified openly gay candidates for municipal office go down to defeat: In Salem's City Council race, it was Mickey Northcutt, who ran for an open seat with the endorsement of the popular retiring incumbent.
Methodists reach out to the gays
The Rev. Gil Caldwell is fond of quoting a character from the stage drama The Slave Narratives who said, "They use the Bible like a stick against us."
Better Than Blood
Singer/songwriter McCauley has the perfect voice to match her penchant for bombastic pop/rock.
Within Me
If there's one thing that pop music has taught us, it's that an artist who goes by an initial will always be v. good.
Out in print
Check out three new fall releases, reviewed by Brian Jewell. "Murder in the Rue Chartres" is the latest adventure of Chanse MacLeod finds the private detective returning to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "Blind Leap" is the second installment of the adventures of the San Francisco- based Blind Eye Detective Agency, Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshalls have worked out most of the kinks. "Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film, 2nd Edition", a new guide to queer cinema, is an annual yearbook of every film from around the world with gay themes, or by a major gay director.<br><br>
Who's afraid of Tchaikovsky?
Call me Ebenezer Scrooge, but I'm not overly fond of most holiday traditions, especially the ones that infest our performance spaces in December. One stage production of Dickens's A Christmas Carol is more than enough for me, let alone the half dozen that spring up annually like persistent fungus. I'm even - gasp - getting weary of David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries. And as for that highbrow Christmas classic, The Nutcracker ... every time I hear the score, I yearn to grab a bb gun and bag me some sugar plum fairies.
Southie couple claims lack of police response to anti-gay threats
On Oct. 23 around 6:30 p.m., Sven Koppany and Michael Fay, recent transplants to Southie living near the intersection of E Street and Broadway, were enjoying the unseasonably warm weather and preparing to give their first floor condo a thorough cleaning when they suddenly heard someone pounding on the metal security bars on their windows. They turned toward the windows and saw a group of three young people in their late teens, two men and one woman, going from window to window and banging their fists against the bars. Koppany told Bay Windows the teens shouted at the men to let them into the condo so they could look around. The couple said no.
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