New BPS superintendent has pro-LGBT track record
In October of 2000, months after the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts could legally bar gay men from participating, Carol Johnson decided to stand up to the Scouts. Johnson, who began serving as the new superintendent of Boston Public Schools last month, was at the time the superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools, and she had worked to make sure that LGBT students, parents and faculty felt welcomed and included in the district.
Tim Acito on "Zanna Don't"
In Tim Acito's world, it's always 1973.
Clothes make the Man of La Mancha
Steven Sondheim famously reminded us that "the art of making art is putting it together, bit by bit." But when you watch a show - for instance, The Lyric Stage's production of Man of La Mancha, which opens this weekend - hopefully you will be transported by the story and not think about the weeks of hard work that made it possible.
Judy Tenuta, Carnival Queen
Get ready, pigs! Comedy legend and love goddess Judy Tenuta is the featured act at this year's Carnival Week in Provincetown - and we have the interview with the sassy big mouth herself.
Mikhaela Reid on "Attack of the 50 ft. Mikhaela"
Mikhaela Reid is a fumorist cartoonist: by day a mild mannered graphic designer, by night a tower of power who channels her political outrage into slashingly funny cartoons that attack Right Wing politics and American complacency. She talks about being funny, staying angry, and why she owes it all to George W. Bush.
Larry Coen on City Stage, the Gold Dust Orphans, and "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
You may have seen Larry Coen's name on a Broadway marquee, or in any number of playbills around Boston. He's been spotted this year alone with The Gold Dust Orphans, Beau Jest Moving Theater and The Lyric Stage, and is currently appearing with Commonwealth Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream. By day, Coen is an arts educator with City Stage Company, bringing theater to children in the South End. It's an understatement to say that Coen has a passion for theater, as we learned in a recent phone interview.
AIDS Action, Victory Programs partner on program for families affected by addiction
The adjoining bedrooms at Joelyn's Family Home, which are painted in warm shades of green, yellow and orange, are still empty. But Rebecca Haag and other staff members from AIDS Action Committee (AAC) left the residence after a June 20 open house awed by the sense of community embodied by Joelyn's Family Home, a new substance abuse treatment program for women with children.
Rep. Christine Canavan on the MA gay marriage vote
Rep. Christine Canavan had largely been written off as a potential vote change by marriage equality activists - so the Brockton Democrat's "no" vote at the June 14 constitutional convention was a shocker. She talks about how, after three years of voting the way she believed the majority of her district wanted her to, she decided to follow her conscience.
Housewives Gone Wild!
Next week Wolfe Video brings back two low budget lesbian themed movies: That Tender Touch (1969) and Just The Two of Us (1975.) Both films feature troubled female couples and are not only historically interesting, but surprisingly entertaining - albeit mostly in the so-bad-it's-good way.<br><br>
Sue Hyde and Lisa Keen on GLBT Youth's Legal Rights
The first two books in Boston-based Beacon Press's series of titles aimed at the LGBT community take aim at a much-needed subject: political organizing and legal rights for LGBT youth. In Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World, longtime political activist Sue Hyde offers not just a how-to on political organizing, but an informative, easily digestible history of the LGBT movement. And Lisa Keen's Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rightsis an often-times startling look at the attacks currently being launched against LGBT youth by right-wing activists. Bay Windows' editor Susan Ryan-Vollmar spoke with both writers - here's the interview!
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