AIDS educator's trip to Africa hindered by DOMA
Jason Hair-Wynn arrived at his Attleboro home on March 13 to find an envelope from the U.S. Department of State's National Passport Center in New Hampshire that he thought contained his new passport, a necessity for the month-long trip he'll be taking this summer to do HIV/AIDS and health education with youngsters in Ghana, Africa.
Going the distance
Jamie Simpson, a 41-year-old Boston resident, is HIV-positive and healthy, and he doesn't take that for granted. On April 21 Simpson will be among the 25,000 runners in the 112th Boston Marathon, and this will mark his second time running. But he isn't just running for himself. Simpson, a member of the Boston Living Center for the last ten years, is one of 17 members of the Living Center's marathon team, which is raising money for the community and wellness center for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Homo hop
Hip hop has been mainstream for so long that it's hard to recall it was once underground. But as pop culture has embraced rap, rap has also reflected pop culture's ambivalence about gay people. Radio friendly rappers can sell millions, and many will cheer or look the other way when homophobic rhymes start to flow. So queer rappers remain underground. But they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.
Spring has sprung at NE flower show
Hop in your hybrid car, turn up the tunes and get thee over to the Bayside Expo Center, as it undergoes one of its best annual transformations: that glorious false spring known as the New England Flower Show.
AIDS Action Committee scores Orr
As part of AIDS Action Committee's expanded outreach of the gay male community, the organization has hired Keith Orr, a former <i>Bay Windows</i> editor and the producer/co-host (with <i>Bay Windows</i> publisher Sue O'Connell) of WFNX Radio's long-running LGBT chat show "One in Ten" as its marketing manager.
New ED for GLBT youth commission; next meeting in Springfield
The Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth this month announced that it has hired Lisa Perry-Wood, formerly a member of the commission, to serve as its first executive director. Perry-Wood is the commission's second employee, joining administrative assistant Bernie Gardella. She was hired to help better coordinate the work of the otherwise all-volunteer body.
With progressive challenger, Kerry's opposition to marriage equality softens
In the midst of a re-election challenge from the left in the Democratic Primary this September, Sen. John Kerry has softened his longstanding opposition to same-sex marriage. In a statement to <i>Bay Windows</i> Kerry said that civil marriage rights for same-sex couples are established law in Massachusetts and should remain so. He has also touted his work to sway state legislators to vote against the anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment at last June's constitutional convention, as proof of his support.
'Family Values' for everyone!
Nancy Polikoff looks <italic>Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage</italic>
Commando Cosmos: Homo ambush strikes Faneuil Hall
It's Friday night at the Bell in Hand Tavern and something is amiss. At first glance all appears normal: guys wearing button-ups or T-shirts and ladies decked out in jeans and tight tops, everyone drinking, flirting, and casually nodding to the top-40 music. But by nine o'clock it's clear that something is a bit off. As more people pour through the front door there's a disturbance in the Force: an overabundance of men and a growing shortage of women.
Master of puppets
Those of us who grew up in the 1970s or later came of age with the help of children's television, perky programs that helped us learn to read and count. Isn't it shame those shows didn't grow up with us, continuing to teach us valuable life lessons about getting a job, negotiating relationships, and how to find porn online? Enter Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, the creators of the Broadway smash hit and 2003 Tony winner <I>Avenue Q</i>, the cheerfully naughty musical about twentysomethings making their way in New York City.
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