<i>Pilot</i> columnist takes aim at LGBT youth programs
The Jan. 4 edition of the Archdiocese's official newspaper, <i>The Pilot</i>, features a column by Dale O'Leary attacking LGBT youth programs and warning parents of the dangers of their youth getting involved with homosexuality and transsexuality.
New trans legal clinic kicks off Jan. 16
Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, will speak at the kick-off event of a new Boston-based legal clinic for low-income transgenders.
Relationship recognition in New England
An overview of how the six New England States have legalized - or not - a spectrum of coupling models.
She's still here
Jennifer Finney Boylan's new memoir, <i>I'm Looking Through You</i>, is a bit of a departure from her 2003 memoir <i>She's Not There</i>. While the latter book catapulted her to the top of the best sellers list and onto the <i>Oprah</i> show with her comic, intimate account of her transition from male to female, the new book takes a turn for the supernatural, recounting her experience growing up in a suburban house in Philadelphia that, according to local legend, was haunted.
28th First Event to take place Jan. 16-20
Long Island activist Juli Owens, keynote speaker for the 28th annual First Event conference, said she plans to talk about the choices that transgender people are forced to make to balance their transgender identity and the need to survive in an often hostile world.
Crossing the border
With New Hampshire joining the ranks of the civil union states this year, same-sex couples can now obtain all of the legal state benefits of marriage in four of the six New England states, either through civil unions in New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut or through marriage in Massachusetts. But what happens when you cross state lines?
Guilty
You get cool points for coming out of the Francophone closet, but only geek points for being a fan of Japanese pop. What can I say? I love the simple pleasures of bubblegum pop but get annoyed at the brain-dead lyrics. Since I don't speak a word of Japanese, J-pop is the answer.
Divinidylle
I thought of writing this review entirely in French, but that would be clever, and Paradis doesn't seem interested in mere cleverness. She evokes French pop of the 60s and early 70s without the irony of, say, the high-concept cover band Nouvelle Vague.
Some People Have REAL Problems
This album begins with the barely-instrumented "Lullaby," the better to show off Sia's voice, and what a voice: Smoky, raspy, quirky, it'll have you wondering who she reminds you of. Maybe a little Fiona Apple, some Chrissie Hynde, but Sia is mostly unique.
Distortion
Take some perky pop songs that range in sensibility from surf rock to British Invasion, and play them in an echo chamber that's six feet underground. That's the first impression of this muted marvel, which shrouds perfect pop nuggets in layers and layers of fuzz and noise.
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