MAP raises awareness of HIV/AIDS in API community
Massachusetts Asian and Pacific Islanders (MAP) for Health held its Rooted in Acceptance reception and awards ceremony May 15 at the Boston Center for the Arts to honor individuals who have worked to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community. The event was held to coincide with National API HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on May 19.
Northeastern student alleges gay bashing
Daniel D'Orsi, a 22-year-old Northeastern student, was assaulted and robbed in the early morning hours of May 6 outside Fritz bar in the South End. D'Orsi, whose injuries were severe enough to require reconstructive surgery to repair his collapsed cheekbone, said the assailant shouted anti-gay slurs at him during the assault.
The end of an era
In an afternoon of music, dance, poetry and praise, more than 150 members of the Union United Methodist Church on May 17 paid tribute to their beloved pastor, the Rev. Martin McLee, who will be leaving the congregation on June 30.
I M. womyn
Queer African American women speak for themselves
Big Bow Wow
This Dublin-set nighttime drama from the U.K. knows how to push buttons and boundaries. A sort of Celtic <I>Sex and the City</i>, the provocative soap courted controversy with its frank portrayals of pretty young people having sex, doing drugs, and generally behaving badly, along with its major (and majorly annoying) gay character.
Boston Ballet looks to a brighter future
Mikko Nissinen expands on the accordion theory
A diversity of opinion
As an adolescent questioning his sexuality while growing up in Qatar in the 1990s, Mohammed El-Khatib found the homophobic attitudes of his parents, particularly his father, toxic. His parents were secular Arabs whose views on homosexuality were strongly informed by Western attitudes, and his father would complain that homosexuality was unnatural and a "biological defect." To escape this rhetoric El-Khatib found refuge in a place that might seem counterintuitive to many LGBT people: the local mosque. El-Khatib said that while homosexuality was frowned upon by the clergy, they counseled him that it was a temporary phase rather than a permanent pathology.
Design students give AIDS Walk a facelift
Commuters riding the T may have noticed a plethora of eye-catching ads popping up to promote AIDS Walk Boston, which takes place June 1. The slick ad campaign was not the product of a high-powered ad agency; it was the brainchild of a pair of design students from the New England Institute of Art.
Dyke Night helps the Dyke March
Next month Kristen Porter will host a one-off Dyke Night event to benefit another cherished lesbian institution: the Boston Dyke March. Dyke Night will host the official Dyke March after-party on June 13 at the Holiday Inn in Somerville.
Meet Suffolk DA's LGBT liaison
Though she acknowledged it's a big old clich?, Jennifer Stott said her work as a victim witness advocate for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley stems from her desire to help people.
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