I swiped this photo from my friend’s Instagram account. It makes for the perfect Saturday morning coffee blog post. You may recognize Sheraz, because last year I shared a post about his meditation podcasts, which you can read about here.
ADAM & ANDY is set in the fictional New England town of Woodfield, CT. You can learn more about this strip by visiting, adamandandy.com.
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CASEY AT THE BAT is a comic strip follows the adventures of a young, gay man [Casey] and his friends in life, love and sports! You can learn more about Casey by visiting, caseyatb.com.
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What is old is new again; first it was announced that Will & Grace would return to NBC then ABC said it was bringing back its popular show Roseanne. Now Netflix has revived the Bravo TV series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, but this time with a new cast and in a new city.
Moving from the more politically progressive northeast this new cast will be based in Atlanta and roam Dixie. The new Fab Five includes Bobby Berk as the show’s design expert; Karamo Brown will be the cast’s cultural attache (so to speak); Antoni Porowski will manage all things related to food and wine; Jonathan Van Ness is responsible for personal grooming; and Tan France will lead the charge in the fashion department.
The Netflix teaser that dropped earlier this week opens with the lines, “The original show was fighting for tolerance. Our fight is for acceptance.” I’m not sure I really agree with that but you get the gist of this light-hearted formulaic series that will try to make America a little more accepting (and hopefully more polite) – one makeover at a time.
Check’em out on Netflix here: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
I may have actually posted this previously because the image looks familiar. However, I didn’t think anyone would complain if that is the case.
If you live in New England, Summer can seem like a distant memory at this point, but don’t use the weather as an excuse for not going out. Throw on a hat to keep you warm and check out one or more of these events this weekend.
New England’s largest gay ski & snowboarding party, Winter Rendezvous Gay Ski Week kicks into high gear with the start of the weekend, but if you’re not going check out Boyfriends featuring Kylie Minogue on Friday; the semi-monthly queer dance party Break the Chains on Saturday; or head over to Club Cafe’s monthly Sunday Bear Tea Dance.
Winter Rendezvous, started on Wednesday but things start to heat up this weekend
Queer Inclusive Climbing Klub (QuICK) Pizza night and climbing club at Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville
HYPE MAN: A break beat play (OPENING NIGHT) presented by Company One Theatre will run through February 24th in Boston
Boyfriends presents Kylie Minogue takes place at the Milky Way on Friday night in Jamaica Plain
Casual Fridays is a weekly dance party with no cover featuring DJ Begbick at the Alley Bar in DTX
Ashes to Ashes: Heroes tribute to David Bowie is on Friday at The Middle East starting at 10PM in Central Square in Cambridge
Cambridge/Boston Women’s March 2018: The People Persist Join the resistance! All are welcome to come together on the Cambridge Common on Saturday from 1-3 PM in Cambridge
Sissy That Trivia: A RuPaul’s Drag Race Quiz join this FUNdraiser for Boston Gay Men’s Chorus from 3-6PM at The Alley in Boston
Break the Chains queer dance party! is a semi-monthly all ages, all gender dance party w/ local and touring queer and trans performers on Saturday from 6-10PM at Make Shift Boston in the South End
Grunt is a weekly dance party with no cover for burly men and their admirers, starting at 10PM at the Alley Bar in DTX
Mad Hatter’s Menagerie starts at 10PM at dbar costume dress encouraged (think Mad Hatter Tea Party attire) in Dorchester
Drag me to Brunch from Carrie Nation Cocktail Club is this Sunday from 2-4PM in Boston
Sunday Bear Tea Dance never has a cover and always has great music from 70s 80s & 90s, starting at 6PM no cover every Sunday at Club Cafe in Boston
Gay Beer Club at the Cambridge Brewing Co. on Sunday
Gay Beer Club meets for their weekly beer social at the Cambridge Brewing Company on Sunday starting at 7PM in Cambridge
Karaoke at the Alley is every Sunday starting at 8PM in Boston
Pajama Party is a weekly dance party hosted every Sunday starting at 10PM at Machine in Boston
Hot Mess Sundays at Candibar in the Theater District is every Sunday starting at 10PM in Boston
Send me information about your upcoming programs and events in my blog’s comment section or message me the details on Facebook.
Shakespeare in Love || Photo by Nile Hawver / Nile Scott Shots
Set in the larger and more comfortable Wimberly Theater at the Calderwood Pavilion, SpeakEasy uses the stage brilliantly to recreate a 16th Century theater in London that effectively transitions from playhouse to bar to bedroom with the same ease as the co-leads who portray their parts. Lead roles are played by the handsome Netwon native George Olesky and the beautiful Jennifer Ellis who I loved in SpeakEasy’s spring 2017 production of The Bridges of Madison County.
Shakespeare in Love || Photo by Nile Hawver / Nile Scott Shots
The play is rife with witty lines that reference Shakespeare plays and funny scenarios; like in the beginning of the play depicting the Bard as suffering from writer’s bloc and incapable of writing even a sonnet until he unwittingly meets his Juliet. One needn’t be a fan of Shakespeare to appreciate the humor anymore than one needed to know it to enjoy the movie, but it certainly did make me laugh hearing famous lines turned on their head like using one of Lady MacBeth’s most guilt-ridden lines as a humorous punch line for a dog.
Tickets to see Shakespeare In Love are reasonably priced with tickets starting at $25.00. Performances run Wednesday thru Sunday until February 10th.
Sound like a great show but don’t live in Boston? The SpeakEasy Stage joins fourteen other theater companies in the United States, that have productions of this comedy in their 2017 / 2018 season, making Shakespeare In Love the most produced show in the country so check your local theater companies – who knows? Perhaps a production of this comedy is taking place nearby.
This week’s vintage gay post which is nearly 100 years old comes from the homohistory blog. Unfortunately, I don’t know where this was taken.
I dedicate this weekly post, featuring vintage gay photographs, to the men and women who lived in a more critical time where being true to yourself and loving who you want wasn’t always an option and came at a great price. Do you have a photo you would like to share? Email me at bosguymail@gmail.com.
Are you a core conservative, solid liberal or somewhere in between? Take Pew Research’s quiz to see which political typology group is your best match
Pew Research has an online survey to help evaluate what political group matches your political philosophy. It was created and based on a survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults. I will admit I did not agree with many of the answers to the questions, which were too black and white, and I often had to choose between which answer I disagreed with less, but it was interesting all the same. 
After taking Pew’s survey I received a rating of “Solid Liberal” (no surprise to me or those who know me). According to Pew only about 16% of America identify as Solid Liberals. Characteristics of this political group are steadfast advocates for social safety nets; they think immigrants are an important part of what makes America unique and great; support social issues and believe homosexuality should be accepted by society. If you’d like to take this online quiz link here.
Chris Puckett runs an adventure-travel company focused on curated experiences throughout the world. His Instagram account is a great way to enjoy the beautiful photos he takes like the one above of him relaxing in Buenos Aires.
If you’re like me and you are always dreaming of where you can go next, maybe you should check out Chris’ company and plan an upcoming trip or at the very least follow his Instagram account which gives you no shortage of places to check out and get inspired to plan another vacation.
Follow him on Instagram here, instagram.com/p.u.c.k.e.t.t.
Do you like this weekly post? Check out previously featured IG accounts here.
Hopefully the caption I’ve shared below inspires you to offer up a caption or two of your own. Leave a witty or funny caption as a comment for this post, and I’ll approve it for readers to enjoy.
“Power Bottom“
In case you didn’t realize, each Tuesday I’m featuring a different LGBTQ club or organization to encourage people to come together and interact. This week I wanted to feature a relative newcomer to the area, Stonewall Sports, which opened a Boston chapter last year and now runs Billiards and Dodgeball leagues that happen to be accepting registrations for their spring season.
Click Here For More Info & To Register
Registration for Billiards closes Monday, January 22nd
Registration for Dodgeball closes Tuesday, January 30th
Billiards teams meet each Monday at Scholars in Downtown Crossing from 7:30pm-10:30pm from February 12 – April 2, 2018.
Dodgeball games are on Saturday afternoons in the South End from 2:00pm-5:00pm, from March 3 – April 28, 2018.
Many use the New Year as an opportunity to make resolutions. A common resolution is to be more active and meet people, but that can be difficult for gay men in Boston. Starting in 2018, I want to feature the LGBTQ groups and organizations that help people connect and enrich Boston’s gay life.
If you’d like to have your club / team featured, please email me at bosguymail@gmail.com or via FB messenger.
While political junkies talk endlessly about dropping poll numbers for President Trump and his detractors make bold predictions for the midterm elections, I’m reminded of the proverb, Pride Comes Before a Fall.
Midterm elections are notoriously difficult to get voter turnout and Trump’s supporters are if nothing else, loyal and dedicated. Combine that with some findings published in this week’s NYT article, Trump’s Popularity Has Declined Across Voting Blocs in the Past Year, which despite its title suggests that his largest declines comes from voting blocs that never really supported him to begin with and one wonders why Democrats feel quite so confident?
Does it really matter that his popularity has fallen 8 points by those who describe themselves as Democrats? While his drop in popularity also includes crucial demographics for the President like self described Republicans and Conservatives – these dips are far smaller. It seems to me that detractors of the President should spend more time focusing on targeting voters who either stood on the sidelines in the 2016 Presidential election or voted for Trump more to vote against Clinton than out of any support for the President.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand” – Abraham Lincoln
Building bridges is a lot harder than blowing them up and unfortunately Democrats are in far greater need for bridge builders. Under Trump’s leadership, the Republican Party has a laser focus on shrinking and riling up their base to ensure they turn out in every election. Donald Trump has successfully employed a divide and conquer strategy. Playing on people’s fears and anger inevitably benefits Donald Trump. If you are truly opposed to Donald Trump what will you do to replace those fears with faith in a better tomorrow and anger with action?
Griffin Barrows is very woof-worthy and makes for a great Temptation Tuesday.
I recently received Steven Cohen’s South End Stakeholder’s Report (Winter 2017). The report, compiled by SCT, includes interesting details for those of you interested in real estate. Here are some of the findings shared about the South End market and Boston that caught my attention.
The report also shares some interesting data points about the city of Boston including the following:
You can read the full report online at stevencohenteam.com/publications.
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