Officer LGBT-friendly
BPD commish sets inclusive tone inside and outside department
Shocker: Mass Resistance declared a hate group
Brian Camenker, Amy Contrada, and the rest of the anti-gay activists at Mass Resistance have finally received some long-overdue recognition.
Youth theater troupe gets help from Social Innovation Forum
Evelyn Francis, director of education for True Colors Out Youth Theater, has big plans. Over the next two years she hopes to double the capacity of the LGBT youth theater troupe, both in terms of the number of participants and the number of performances True Colors puts on each year. Francis hopes that True Colors' partnership with the Social Innovation Forum, which works with non-profits to connect them with new sources of funding, will help the troupe accomplish that goal.
McGee cleared in Fla. assault case
Carl Stanley McGee, assistant secretary for policy and planning in Gov. Deval Patrick's administration, is in the clear. The state attorney's office in Lee County, Florida, has decided not to press charges against McGee for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
Suzanne Westenhoeffer: A Bottom on Top
"There are as many lesbians in the middle of the country as there are on the edges," observes comedian Suzanne Westenhoeffer before taking the stage in Indianapolis. "The ones here are just quieter and nicer." Westenhoeffer should know. The pioneering lesbian comic has done her share of traveling, crisscrossing the country to headline comedy clubs in every state.
A Single Drop of Red
With their pounding guitars, judicious use of synthesizers and dramatic lyrics about combat and death, this hard-rocking Boston duo certainly makes evocative music.
Charmed and Strange
First of all, give this one-man band props for originality. Eschewing the usual (read: dull) singer-songwriter-with-acoustic-guitar routine, this Israeli musician doesn't stop at picking and strumming.
Capture the Castle
Emerg-O! Percept-O! Joan-Crawford-waving-an-axe-in-your-face-O! These are some of the tricks cult filmmaker William Castle used to lure kids into theaters and scare the pants off them. Learn more in <I>Spine Tingler!</i>, one of the highlights of this year's Boston Underground Film Festival.
Shadows of the past
Although he's something of a national treasure in his native Australia, multidisciplinary artist William Yang is little known here in the U.S. That may change with his current tour of his performance <I>Shadows</i>, which shines a light on the history of prejudice and persecution suffered by German and Aboriginal communities.
Girl uninterrupted
In the shattered black family that <I>The Gibson Girl</i> centers on, Dad has decamped to teach at a college in Vermont. Symbolically, he has chosen Vermont Maids over Aunt Jemima. No wonder, then, that his ex-wife is brewing up some homemade syrup in the back yard to lure her man home.
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