Boston Pride to host NERP
About 100 delegates from Pride committees throughout the northeast will converge on Boston for the 20th North East Regional Pride (NERP) conference Feb. 28 - March 2.
Fate of two LGBT-related bills uncertain
Although most folks at the State House are focused on the budget and casino gambling proposals, legislative committees have taken action on several LGBT-related bills this month. The Joint Committee on Education sent two bills, a health education bill supported by LGBT activists and a parental notification bill supported by the anti-gay group MassResistance, to study committees, normally a sign that a bill is dead for the session. Yet proponents for both bills say they expect to press on this session.
Harvard Lambda conference to focus on trans issues
Harvard Law School Lambda, the law school's LGBT student organization, will host its third annual Harvard Lambda Legal Advocacy (HaLLA) conference Feb. 29-March 1. This year's conference will focus on transgender legal issues.
Media missed chance to explore violence against LGBT youth
Writing about the murder of 15-year-old gay Oxnard, California resident Lawrence King, blogger Waymon Hudson asked in a Feb. 15 post on The Bilerico Project, "Where's the outrage?" A more pressing question, one that Waymon also posits, is, "Where's the coverage?"
Gay and bi men's health forum addresses MRSA, HIV and increasing syphilis rates
A panel of medical professionals discussed MRSA, HIV/AIDS and syphilis at a Feb. 13 forum for gay and bi men at Club Caf?. The news wasn't all good.
For the Bible Tells Me So
Are there really irreconcilable differences between Christianity and homosexuality, or has someone been the victim of a bad PR campaign? That's the basic question behind this documentary that looks at Bible passages like Leviticus 18:22 and the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Kiki and Herb Live at the Knitting Factory
Thanks to the wonders of home video, viewers across the country can now enjoy the compellingly bizarre act - part cabaret and part trainwreck - of Kiki & Herb, long the darlings of New York City hipsters.
City of light
John Rechy stands amongst the most significant of American gay writers of the 20th century. His landmark debut novel, City of Night, caused a sensation in 1963 with its frank - and semi-autobiographical - account of working as a gay hustler in several cities across America. The book's evocative, slangy prose earned it a place in literary as well as gay history. In his recently published <I>About My Life and The Kept Woman</i> (Grove Press), Rechy looks back on his life and sheds a different light on his <I>City of Night</i>.
Advocates disagree on HIV/AIDS lobby strategy
Following AIDS Action Committee's decision last month to withdraw from Project ABLE (AIDS Budget Legislative Effort), the statewide coalition that lobbies Beacon Hill on HIV/AIDS funding issues, more members of the coalition have begun speaking out about their dissatisfaction with Project ABLE's efforts to increase state funding for HIV/AIDS programs. The state's AIDS budget has yet to recover fully from the nearly $20 million dollars in cuts it sustained between fiscal years 2002 (FY02) and FY05.
Openly gay Patrick appointee to be arraigned on sexual assault charges
Carl Stanley McGee, assistant secretary for policy and planning in Gov. Deval Patrick's administration and one of Patrick's first openly gay appointees, will be arraigned Feb. 25 in Fort Myers, Fla., on suspicion of committing sexual assault on a 15-year-old.
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