Electropop goes the world
Pedigree wise, it doesn't get much better than MEN, the new club and crunk factory comprised of Johanna Fateman and J.D.Samson, aka two thirds of Le Tigre. Moving from post-punk rabble rousing to post-geek booty shaking, the pair of DJ/producers spin their own music and some killer remixes and mashups in their set.
Eleven Men Out
Forget sociology and meteorology, I've found the proof that climate affects psychology in a string of soccer films.
Surveillance 24/7
Given the current political climate, the dismal signal to noise ratio of the media, and technology's tendency to develop faster than laws can adapt, movies about conspiracies, technofear and invasion of privacy won't be going out of style anytime soon.
Q Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Years after its cancellation the influential TV show <I>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>, which blended genre thrills with teen angst and a girl power message, continues to inspire criticism and debate. It also inspired this book.
Sex for America: Politically Inspired Erotica
There are so many reasons to feel uneasy about the current administration that even us gays can forget that George W. Bush is, as Elliott bluntly reminds us, the "the anti-sex President." The characters in this invigorating anthology hook up amidst concerns about sex education, reproductive rights and sodomy laws, as well as the war, terrorism and encroachments on civil liberties - none of which makes for hot erotica.
Harvard community tackles race and sexuality
It's hard to imagine two topics more polarizing in America than race and sexuality, and when three Harvard University student groups convened a Feb. 20 forum on homophobia within the black community it was conceivable that the discussion could have erupted into a catastrophic argument. What happened was just the opposite.
PFLAG is growing in Mass.
PFLAG is getting new chapters off the ground.
Microsoft pioneer leaves $65 million to LGBT and HIV/AIDS groups
Ric Weiland, one of the first employees of Microsoft and a longtime philanthropist within the LGBT community, bequeathed $65 million to a group of 11 LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations.
McGee court date delayed two weeks
A Fort Myers, Fla., court postponed the arraignment of Carl Stanley McGee, the openly gay assistant secretary for policy and planning in Gov. Deval Patrick's administration, from Feb. 25 to March 10.
Jane Doe and Mass. NOW tackle the bathroom argument
The main argument advanced by the Coalition for Marriage and Family against House Bill 1722 is that it would put the safety of women and children at risk by allowing access to women's bathrooms and locker rooms by assailants claiming to be transgender. But two state organizations that are on the front lines of protecting women's safety, the domestic violence and sexual assault coalition Jane Doe, Inc., and the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), argue that such claims are simply fear-mongering.
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