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!
Through the years with Kiki and Herb
A look back at the recording career of the twosome, who are appearing at the Calderwood Pavilion through June 30.
Documenting the Provincetown Art Community
A deep love of Provincetown can be felt in ArtSpirit, the new documentary that chronicles the history of the town's art community. No puff piece, the film serves as much as a warning as a tribute, showing how the changing real estate market makes it increasingly difficult for artists to live in the seaside town. It's a far cry from the halcyon days of the first half of the 20th century, when the fishing industry outstripped the tourist trade and the artists who flocked to Provincetown for its unique light and vistas could find affordable housing.
What's on at the Boston International Film Festival
What another film festival? The Boston International Film Festival is sneaking in under the wire, but don't let it pass by -- it's ambitious programming has plenty to offer.
Gwen Cooper on "Diary of a South Beach Party Girl"
Miami native Gwen Cooper transformed herself from a bookish, nice Jewish girl to a wild nightlife queen when she moved to South Beach, a neighborhood that had just exploded into a hipster destination. It's the same journey undertaken by the heroine of her debut novel, Diary of a South Beach Party Girl, which chronicles with a clear eye and ready wit the glamorous life of people who are always on the guest list and always have the best drugs. Here's the interview!
Focus on Focus on the Family
In 2004, involvement by Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based evangelical Christian ministry and education center, was central to passage of 11 of the 13 marriage amendments on state ballots that year. Now, as the fight for gay marriage in Massachusetts heats up, Dr. Dobson and his group are readying to do battle in the Bay State.
Gay vets recall wartime experiences
When Carol Riso joined the Air Force Nurse Corps back in 1962, she didn't think much about checking off the box on her enlistment form declaring that she did not have homosexual tendencies. But things changed when she fell for a fellow nurse while stationed in Japan, where she tended to U.S. soldiers wounded in Vietnam. "I realized at that time that I was a lesbian. It was a great feeling. I finally understood what all my feelings were about. It was like a whole new life."
Casper Andreas on A Four Letter Word
Following the success of his first feature "Slutty Summer," director Casper Andreas returns to the gay romantic comedy genre with "A Four Letter Word," which premiered in New York today. Here's the interview!
Let the sun shine in
It's another damp New England day when I speak on the phone to Lori Michaels. She counsels me to hang on. "We're bringing the sexy sunshine to P'town," she promises. "That's a special type of sunshine, darling!"
James St. James on "Freak Show"
High school can be hell. I'm sure every reader remembers the hormone-fueled drama of feeling like a square peg in a round hole, yearning to be one of the popular kids, and fretting over whether your outfit hits exactly the right combination of Sigmund the Sea Monster and swamp slut. Okay, that last one might not be a universal experience, but it's exactly the sort of dilemma faced by Billy Bloom, the young protagonist of the new novel Freak Show.
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