Breaking news: MA legislature readying to take up repeal of 1913 law preventing out-of-state gay marriages
The Massachusetts state legislature will likely take up a bill to repeal the 1913 law that prevents non-resident same-sex couples from marrying before the close of the legislative session at the end of this month.
For Your Consideration
Kathy Griffin is a funny lady, but you wouldn't know it from this disc. The uber-fag hag, reality TV star, and D-list celebrity knows how to tell a funny story, but her ability to sell a joke far outweighs her ability to write one.
O
A band that often uses a tap dancer for percussion instead of drums? With a new album that's being called <I>O</i> by default because the cover has no title, just a big circle?
Boys in Heat
This scorching collection of erotica will make you forget all those other cookie-cutter anthologies faster than you can say, "fire in the hole."
Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Much has been written about the connections between creativity and madness but editor Sabrina Chapadjeive postulates (citing Syliva Plath, Anne Sexton and Virginia Woolf for starters) that female artists are particularly prone to self-destruction.
Pride scrolling
Stonewall Brawl turns the Stonewall Riots, the event that marks the birth of the modern gay rights movement, into an action packed video game in the mode of classic side-scrollers like Street Fighter.
The bliss-off
Peabody Essex panel addresses gay marriage and art
BPD seeks cooperation of club owners in reducing crime
Detectives from the Boston Police Department's Community Disorders Unit (CDU) told a gathering of LGBT bar and club owners June 25 that there has been a steady rise in LGBT-related hate crime investigations in the city in the past four years, particularly in police districts D4, which covers the South End, Back Bay, Lower Roxbury and Fenway; and C11, which covers Dorchester.
Local testifies at first federal hearing on transgender rights
The House Committee on Education and Labor held the first congressional hearing on transgender rights June 26 as part of an effort by LGBT advocates and congressional allies to build support within Congress for a trans-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) bill. Boston's Diego Sanchez, director of public relations and external affairs for the AIDS Action Committee, testified at the hearing before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions along with other supporters and opponents of transgender rights.
Marketing association honors MassEquality ad campaign
MassEquality has long been praised for its political muscle, but last month the New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA) honored the organization for its media savvy. NEDMA gave MassEquality's "It's Wrong to Vote on Rights" television campaign first prize in its broadcast media category at the organization's annual awards show, held June 11 at the Roxy in Boston.
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