A shot at love with Calpernia Addams

Add another impressive credit to the resume of indomitable actress, author and activist Calpernia Addams. The very out trans woman stars in Logo's new dating reality show, <I>Transamerican Love Story</I>. With the help of host Alec Mapa (from <I>Ugly Betty</I> and <I>Desperate Housewives<I/>) and her business partner and best gal pal Andrea James, Addams will choose a boyfriend from a stable of eight eager hunks.

by Michael Wood | Feb 9, 2008

Absolute Brightness

Reading this mystery about a gay teen who moves to a small town in New Jersey, where he has a positive impact on his new family but becomes the target of violence, I was frequently reminded of Judy Blume. That's a compliment of the highest order.

by Michael Wood | Feb 8, 2008

The Advocate Guide to Gay Men's Health and Wellness

Scan most health and fitness books aimed at men and you'll find the assumption that the reader is heterosexual. Even some books focusing on male sexuality treat the fact that some men have sex with men coyly or as an afterthought, or ignore the possibility altogether. In his new book, Dr. Spinelli argues that this is indicative of a general reluctance among the medical community to discuss homosexuality with patients, a timidity that ignores the special needs and issues of gay men.

by Michael Wood | Feb 7, 2008

Just a girl in the world

After spending years traveling the globe to entertain audiences from Provincetown to Australia, what's a songbird to do? Put on a show about the experience, of course. At least that's what big girl Varla Jean Merman (big as in larger than life, natch) has done. The hilariously ditzy drag queen's new show, <I>Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue</i>, will take you around the world and back (or is that on Varla's back?) with a <I>masala</i> of <I>chansons</i> from <I>surtout le monde</i>. <I>Ne c'est pas dankeshoen</i>?

by Michael Wood | Feb 10, 2008

'An extraordinary opportunity'

Since being elected mayor of Cambridge by her city council peers, Denise Simmons has fielded a few questions from the three grandchildren she is raising: Can they enjoy watching the Super Bowl on the flat screen TV that hangs in the mayor's office? Does this mean extra tickets to the high school graduation? Will they get an allowance now?

by Michael Wood | Feb 4, 2008

AIDS Action exits Project ABLE

On Jan. 30 Denise McWilliams, director of public policy and legal affairs for AIDS Action Committee (AAC), resigned from the steering committee of Project ABLE, a coalition of more than a dozen HIV/AIDS organizations across the state that bands together to lobby for increased HIV/AIDS funding. AAC as an organization also resigned from the coalition.

by Michael Wood | Feb 3, 2008

MassEquality supporters still willing to roll up their sleeves

MassEquality unveiled its post-marriage amendment agenda for 2008 to a crowd of about 30 supporters Jan. 29 at St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston. The Boston event was part of a series of organizing forums MassEquality is holding across the state to urge their members who mobilized around the marriage issue to support the organization's broader agenda.

by Michael Wood | Feb 1, 2008

A Body of Water

What are they, this trio of hanging panels that demarcate the action in Molasses Tank's production of<I> A Body of Water</i>, Lee Blessing's puzzling play that runs through Feb. 9 at Charlestown Working Theater?

by Michael Wood | Jan 31, 2008

Wanted: a few good gays

The City of Cambridge's GLBT Commission, which grew out of an LGBT town hall meeting that current Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons organized in 2004, is looking for new members to advocate for equality for all Cambridge citizens, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

by Michael Wood | Jan 31, 2008

Few facts emerge from Yakovleff murder investigation

Two weeks after 20-year-old Daniel Yakovleff was found stabbed to death in a Dorchester apartment very little information has come to light about the circumstances behind his murder. It is unclear why Yakovleff, a popular hair stylist at the South End's Liquid Hair Studios who lived in Roxbury, traveled the evening of Jan. 16 from the South End's Boston Eagle bar to the Tuttle Street apartment of Steven Odegard or what connection, if any, Odegard had to Yakovleff's murder.

by Michael Wood | Feb 1, 2008


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