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.
Advocates turn out en masse for transgender civil rights bill
Supporters of a bill to add gender identity to state civil rights laws far outnumbered opponents at a marathon public hearing before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary at the State House on March 4. The committee listened to 10 hours of testimony on a host of bills related to same-sex marriage, abortion, victim's rights and other issues. But the bulk of the hearing, which lasted until 11:30 p.m., was devoted to H.B. 1722, the first major piece of transgender rights legislation to come before the Massachusetts Legislature.
Boston vigil in memory of Lawrence King
LGBT youth and allies will gather at the Community Church of Boston March 12 to mourn the death of Lawrence King, a 15-year-old gay middle-school student from Oxnard, California, who was gunned down in his classroom last month. Police believe the murder was an anti-gay hate crime.
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