SpeakOut to keep speaking
The board of directors of SpeakOut met Nov. 14 to consider a motion put forward by board co-chair Bernadette Smith to dissolve the organization, which was founded in 1972 as the Gay Speakers Bureau and purports to be the world's first LGBT speaker's bureau.
Trans activists call for an end to violence
Reading aloud from a letter she had recently sent to her mother, who had kicked her out of their home when she came out as trans, a young woman from Minnesota captivated a crowd last weekend gathered to remember trans victims of violence. "It's been a little over a year since I've been gone, but you probably don't care," said the transwoman, who identified herself as Synthia. Synthia was one of several speakers at the ninth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance Nov. 18, an event celebrated by members of the transgender community and their allies around the world to commemorate the lives of transgender murder victims and to demand an end to the violence.
Talking about a revolution
I'm usually the one conducting the interview, but it's not far into my conversation with publishers Amanda and Joyce Cascio before they're trying to turn the tables on me. It figures; the partners, in business and in life, didn't get their new book Dragonfly Stories from concept to launch in four months by beating around the bush.
Drood looks like a lady
After singing in a host of Sondheim musicals, playing a gloriously eccentric society matron in Souvenir, and tearing into the iconic Mama Rose in Gypsy, what becomes a leading lady most?
Board to vote on dissolving SpeakOut
SpeakOut, which bills itself as the nation's first LGBT speaker's bureau, may soon be closing its doors. The board of directors was scheduled to meet the evening of Nov. 14, after Bay Windows went to press, and one of the items scheduled for a vote was a motion to dissolve the organization.
The big feast
After a three-year absence one of Boston's signature events for people living with HIV/AIDS, the Boston Living Center's Celebration of Life Thanksgiving Dinner, returns this month to the Hynes Convention Center.
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.
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