Senate budget cautious on LGBT, AIDS funding
The Senate Ways and Means Committee released its budget proposal for the next fiscal year on May 14, and like their counterparts on the House committee they opted to provide level funding to the state's LGBT programs and to provide a small increase to the state's HIV/AIDS budget. Lawmakers and advocates are working to file amendments and pick up co-sponsors by the deadline of noon on May 16 in an effort to boost those numbers.
These condoms are ready for their close-up
Chi Chi Larue, gay icon and porn director extraordinaire, has been one of the more vocal proponents in the adult industry of promoting condom use in adult films, and as part of a new partnership announced earlier this month Larue and her production house, Channel 1 Releasing, will be getting all their condoms for film shoots at Southie's own Global Protection Corp., maker of One condoms.
Youth Pride charts progress and problems still facing LGBT youth
Between the parade, the drag kings, the rock and hip-hop acts, the fabulous outfits and the competitors squaring off on the Dance Dance Revolution game console, Youth Pride was a non-stop party. But this year's theme, "Actual Reality," made it a party with a pressing purpose: ending harassment and violence against LGBT youth and empowering them to live healthier lives. As Youth Pride chair Kelly Lydon told the hundreds of youth who turned out on the Boston Common on May 10, reality for many LGBT youth includes harassment, violence and suicide.
Change is a-Foothills
There's something happening at the Foothills Theatre Company in Worcester. It began with a glittery production in October 2006 of <I>The Rocky Horror Show</i>, the cult classic that had the AARP set doing the Time Warp with the original Hot Tranny Mess, Frank-N-Furter, at the Thursday matinee (yes there's a Thursday matinee).
Get smartpop
Musicians have long loved to use those "three small words," but singer-songwriter Mara Levi is upping the ante to five words. And they aren't "no more I-love-yous," at least not literally. When I spoke with Levi by phone from her home in Washington, D.C., she was busy updating her website to get ready for a community building project that asks her fans to describe themselves in five words
Butchsie
What does it take to make it in the scrappy world of independent film? Talent, vision, determination? All that, sure, but when your business card says writer/director/producer/actress/editor, you need one thing more: boundless energy. Even over the phone it's clear that rising queer filmmaker Michelle Ehlen has energy to spar
The literati meet the glitterati at The Red Fez
Award-winning gay author Joseph Olshon reads at The Red Fez with fellow author Maureen Freely.
Advocates aim high in Senate budget lobbying
Following modest funding increases for LGBT and HIV/AIDS programs in the House budget for the next fiscal year, advocates are pushing the Senate to approve much larger increases in its budget plan
Long-awaited bullying guide released
On April 30 the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released an anti-bullying guide for teachers and administrators that includes a three-page section on LGBT-related bullying issues.
Rustin breakfast empowers LGBT communities of color in civil rights, AIDS battles
Taking the stage holding a sign that bore the slogan, "I AM A MAN" at this year's Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast, Diego Sanchez at once paid tribute to the gay, black civil rights pioneer for whom the event is named and affirmed his own transgender identity.
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