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Boston Freedom Rally: Sept 15-17

Hempfest BostonThe 28th Boston Freedom Rally is the largest annual gathering of pro-marijuana supporters on the East Coast and the second largest festival of it’s kind in the world, surpassed only by Seattle’s Hempfest. So unless you are planning to fly out to Seattle this is a unique opportunity to experience a fun, peaceful multi-day festival / rally on Boston Common that features live music, arts and crafts as well as food for all those munchies that you’re bound to experience.

Boston Freedom Rally starts this afternoon and runs from 12-8PM on Saturday and then again from 12-6PM on Sunday. The rally is organized by the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition (MassCANN), the state affiliate of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) also known as MassCann/NORML.

Furry Friday

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Past Furry Friday Posts 

BosGuy brain teaser

riddle, exercise for your brainEach Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague and see if you can figure out the answer together.

I’ll confirm answers in the afternoon so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance to guess.

This week’s brain teaser:
Tuesday, Sam and Peter went to a restaurant to eat lunch. After eating lunch, they paid the bill. But Sam and Peter did not pay the bill, so who did?

Like riddles? Check out past week’s brain teasers.

What to do this weekend

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Gay Men’s Camping heads out of Boston this weekend

Gay Men’s Camping Group will leave for Wompatuck State Park in Hingham to camp over the weekend

Queer Inclusive Climbing Klub (QuICK) Pizza night and climbing club at Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville

Boston Freedom Rally is one of the nation’s largest and longest running cannabis events and runs through the entire weekend on the Boston Common in Boston

Dueling Divas are back for the summer at Mainestreet every Friday night in Ogunquit

Twerk Fridays at is an 18+ night at Ego in Providence

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Boyfriends pays tribute to Rihana on Friday

Boyfriends presents Rhianna is a fun monthly dance party hosted at the Milky Way Lounge on Friday in JP

SoWa Open Market SoWa Open Market is now open every Saturday and Sunday from 10AM – 4PM through the end of October in Boston

American Field Pop Up is Saturday and Sunday from 11AM – 6PM at the Innovation & Design Building in the Seaport, Boston

Dueling Divas are back for the summer at Mainestreet every Saturday night in Ogunquit

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Saga Saturdays Block Party Boston’s biggest gay dance party on Saturday at Paradise heads outdoors for a massive block party in Cambridge

LGBT Kickball Boston America’s Finest Kickball League kicks off on Sunday at 8AM at Joe Moakley Field in Dorchester

Back 2 Basics Tea Dance never has a cover and always has great music from 70s 80s & 90s, starting at 5PM no cover every Sunday at Club Cafe 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.

5 to 9 opens next Thursday

boston theater, fringe theater, gay theater, gay bostonAfter a very successful run in Provincetown this summer, 5 to 9 comes to Boston for 4 shows only! September 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 24th at MACHINE. It’s the family-friendly  tell-all of three of Trump’s secretaries and how they get even with the petulant president. You can purchase tickets at the link below.

Tickets for 5 to 9

Vintage gay

Truman Capote, Jack DunphyThis week I’m featuring an endearing photo of one of America’s best 20th century authors, Truman Capote, in a rare shot with his longtime partner, Jack Dunphy. The photo was taken shortly after WWII in Rome, 1949 – a year after they met.  The second photo shows the modest headstone where the two men remain buried in Southampton, NY.

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.

Previous Vintage Gay Photos

South End’s newest park Underground Ink is open

South End ParkIn case you missed it, a new (and very cool) park officially opened in the South End this past weekend. Located under the I-93 overpass by the Ink Block, it shows how creatively the city is thinking and how space once unused and unsafe can be transformed.

I first wrote about the park called Underground at the Ink Block or Underground Ink for short in August in this post. Since then, finishing work was done and street artists from all over the United States including Los Angeles, Miami, New York City and Boston were invited to come and bring life to the concrete ramp walls that define this urban park. The developers behind the neighboring Ink Block, National Development, will manage the new park.

Below are photos that I took while enjoying the opening party on Saturday afternoon. When you get a chance I’d recommend you check it out. You can also like the park’s Facebook Page to learn more about upcoming events.

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Happy Hump Day

It is now the afternoon on Wednesday and for those of you who work Monday – Friday you have safely made it through 50% of the work week. How excited are you for Friday afternoon?

This week on Instagram: killian___

handsome, hunkThis week on Instagram I’m featuring an account of a handsome French personal trainer and model who’s account is filled with so many beautiful photos it is a bit distracting.

The professional photos which are highly stylized may not be for everyone, but I enjoy the quality of the images and the eye-candy factor and thought you may as well. The account is already quite popular with nearly 225,000 followers so perhaps you already follow this piece of man candy.

Follow him on Instagram here, instagram.com/killian___.

Do you like this weekly post? Check out previously featured IG accounts here.

Caption this photo

humorHopefully the caption below inspires you to share a caption or two of your own. Bonus points to anyone who can make me laugh.

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Fall performances worth checking out

boston arts, Earlier this month I shared a post about some of the great plays and musicals local  theater production companies have rolled out for the start of their 2017/2018 line up. There are also a number of shows that will be coming to the area that don’t have big marketing budgets and you may not know about but might enjoy seeing. Check out one or more of these shows.

18th Boston Comedy Festival runs from Wednesday, September 20 – Sunday, September 24 at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square.

John Kelly – Time No Line At The Oberon for one show only, Thursday, September 21st. Kelly’s solo show is a non-linear narrative about his life and work in the East Village in the 1980’s; he touches upon gender performance, the AIDS epidemic, the culture wars, LGBT and queer history, gentrification.  Tickets start at $25.

5 to 9 which played at the Art House in Ptown this summer  comes to The Ramrod on Thursday, September 21 thru Sunday, September 24. If you didn’t see this spoof on the 1980 hit, grab tickets to see Ryan Landry, Varla Jean Merman and Kiki Samko update this story with their evil boss, Donald Trump.

Home At Emerson’s Paramount Center runs from September 27  – October 1 HOME combines illusion, live music, home-spun engineering and an inventive use of audience interaction to compose an experience that asks, where is home? If it is not a place, what is home?

David Sedaris is back in town on Wednesday, October 18 to talk about his latest book, Theft by Finding, when the Celebrity Series brings him back to Boston’s Symphony Hall.

Do you hold hands in public

twinks, handsome, menThis past weekend I was reading a brief article on Instinct Magazine’s website which said a survey of 5,000 LGBT British people told The Stonewall Organization that more than 50% of gay men are uncomfortable with holding their significant other’s hand when in public. Moreover, the organization reported that 20% of respondents had been the victim of a hate crime in the past year. Perhaps the most disturbing finding was that more than 80% of victims said they did not contact the police afterwards.

gay couples holding hands, gay displays of affection, pdaPerhaps all those signs exclaiming “Love is Love” should come with an asterisk indicating that loving your partner comes with an inherent risk and therefore isn’t really welcome. We all have friends who have faced violence or been subjected to it ourselves so this isn’t exactly a surprise even if it is disheartening to read.

While these results are based on a survey of LGBT British men, I think the findings would be mirrored here in the US with different parts of the country showing more or less hesitation to share public displays of affection. You can download the full report here: LGBT in Britain – Hate Crime & Discrimination.

Temptation Tuesday

Before the summer becomes too much of a distant memory, I wanted to share this photo of my friend Dennis. The photo was snapped in Provincetown this past August during Carnival when the theme was Gods & Goddesses.

Past Temptation Tuesday Posts

Remembering September 11, 2001

For as long as I’ve had this blog I’ve paid tribute to my friend, Graham Berkeley, who was on the United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the South Tower of New York’s World Trade Center at 9:03 AM on September 11, 2001.

If Graham were alive today he would be 53 years old rather than 30-something I knew. At this point, more time has passed since his untimely death than the duration of our friendship, but tragedies have a a way of cementing in time the memories of those taken from us and so is the case with Graham so each September my mind inevitably turns to a friend who’s memory remains with me despite not seeing or speaking to him for nearly two decades.

What to do this week: September 11 – 17

handsome, hunk, hairyThere is a lot happening throughout the week but this weekend has a lot of events you’ll want to check out including American Field Pop Up at the Design Center, the 31st South End Open Studios and the 28th Annual Boston Freedom Rally which takes over the Boston Common.

If you want to get out and dance this weekend there is plenty as well with the monthly gay party in Somerville on Tuesday, BRASH, up in Salem is the LGBTQ Happy Hour (North Shore) that runs late, on Friday there is the monthly dance party in JP, Boyfriends (feat. music of Rihanna) and a HUGE block party at Paradise in Cambridge with Saga Saturdays.

MONDAY – THURSDAY

Boston 1945 – 2015 Book Release Party join me at our friend’s book release party from 6-8PM on Monday at Cathedral Station in Boston

Drag Bingo is every Monday starting at 7PM free to play at Club Cafe in Boston

Queens Dinner is an uplifting twist to a girl’s night out as we “transition into our best selves” with a workshop led by guest speaker, Life Coach Clara Angelina Diaz, entertainment and food at Darryl’s Corner & Kitchen 6-9PM in Boston

Taco Tuesday is a fun way to socialize and eat on the cheap in the South End; first come, first serve – hosted every Tuesday at Tremont 647 in Boston

BRASH Weekly Queer Party is hosted every Tuesday with DJ Colby Drasher at Brass Union from 9PM – 1AM in Union Square, Somerville

Showtune Tuesday hosted by VJ Ryan Grow starts at 9PM every Tuesday at dbar in Dorchester

Karaoke Night starts at 10PM every Tuesday at Jacques in Boston

Geek Trivia is guaranteed fun and has lots of prizes (trivia starts at 8PM) hosted every Tuesday at Club Cafe in Boston

Mike Kelly Fundraiser is on Wednesday for his bid to become District 2 City Counselor from 8-9PM at the Trophy Room in Boston

ICA Boston every Thursday from 5PM – 9PM admission is free to the public

LGBTQ Happy Hour (North Shore) is Thursday at 6PM at Opus in Salem

Boys Night Out (Back to School Ed.) monthly men of color (and  their friends) cocktail social is hosted by  M3 and starts at 7:30PM at the Liquid Art House in the Back Bay

Trivia Night is at 8PM every Thursday at The Alley Bar in DTX Boston

Karaoke Thursdays is every Thursday at Machine with your hosts Rob Botelho and Emphysema Menthol 100s in Boston

Detention Thursdays! is hosted every Thursday starting at 9PM with shows at 10:30 & 11:45PM – No Cover – at EGO in Providence

Thump! Thursday is hosted every Thursday starting at 10PM at Peggy O’Neil’s in Dorchester

THE WEEKEND

Gay Men’s Camping Group will leave for Wompatuck State Park in Hingham to camp over the weekend

Queer Inclusive Climbing Klub (QuICK) Pizza night and climbing club at Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville

Boston Freedom Rally is one of the nation’s largest and longest running cannabis events and runs through the entire weekend on the Boston Common in Boston

Boyfriends presents Rihanna is a fun monthly dance party hosted at the Milky Way Lounge on Friday in JP

Dueling Divas are back for the summer at Mainestreet every Friday night in Ogunquit

Twerk Fridays at is an 18+ night at Ego in Providence

SoWa Open Market SoWa Open Market is now open every Saturday and Sunday from 10AM – 4PM through the end of October in Boston

South End Open Studios take place this Saturday and Sunday rain or shine in more than 200 artist studios throughout the South End in Boston

American Field Pop Up is Saturday and Sunday from 11AM – 6PM at the Innovation & Design Building in the Seaport, Boston

Dueling Divas are back for the summer at Mainestreet every Saturday night in Ogunquit

Saga Saturdays Block Party Boston’s biggest gay dance party on Saturday at Paradise heads outdoors for a massive block party in Cambridge

LGBT Kickball Boston America’s Finest Kickball League kicks off on Sunday at 8AM at Joe Moakley Field in Dorchester

Back 2 Basics Tea Dance never has a cover and always has great music from 70s 80s & 90s, starting at 5PM no cover every Sunday at Club Cafe 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.