This is more or less how I feel after spending a fun weekend in Washington DC, participating in the National Equality March for Unity and Pride. Due to our travels, I didn’t get a chance to include my weekly what’s happening post today.
Before you head to the Boston Pride Block Party in Back Bay get yourself to the Boston Common for the Stronger Together Rally, which starts at 11AM today.
I’ve posted this before but I really love this photo. I did this a few times when I backpacked through Europe after graduating from college, and I’d love to do it again, but this time with Sergio.
Sergio and I are in Washington D.C. this weekend visiting our good friend Frenchie & The Yankee for their Pride celebration and to participate in The Equality March for Unity and Pride on Sunday.
I hope everyone in Boston will head to the Boston Common on Sunday at 11AM for the Boston Pride: Stronger Together Rally.
Happy Pride Weekend Boston.
Enjoy this week’s prideful edition of Saturday morning coffee.
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Enjoy the weekend and thanks for stopping by to check out my blog.
One of my favorite weekly blog posts is something I created more by accident than design – my Thursday morning Vintage Gay posts. I think of this weekly post as my way of keeping Pride alive through out the year.
I grew up in a small town with an even smaller world view. Combine that with the fact that 20+ years ago the Internet wasn’t really around and there were no gay characters on TV or at the movies unless they were mentally ill, depressed or dying of AIDS, and it isn’t that amazing that many LGBT youth like me grew up thinking there was something fundamentally wrong with them.
Fortunately, my impressions of what it meant to be gay changed forever and for the better when three things happened in the late 1990s: access to the Internet, moving to a progressive city with a sizable gay community and Hollywood realizing gay characters could be depicted as funny or happy people (thank you Will & Grace). These changes helped me realize I wasn’t alone or a genetic freak of nature and it is in that context and with that life experience that I created my weekly post “Vintage Gay”. These photos, which capture happy moments in people’s lives from the past, were hidden from view and rarely shared – at least not shared widely enough so a kid like me might see them and know that it really does get better, to paraphrase a great point that can never be stressed enough to gay youth struggling with their own sexual identity and desires to simply fit in.
Happy Pride
This weekend is jam packed with a lot of Boston Pride events worth checking out. I’ve included several that have caught my eye and I think are worth sharing. Feel free to add events in the comments section of this post.
Some of the highlights for the weekend worth checking out include Bear Pride’s Bear Bare It All, dbar’s annual Stoplight Party, but for sure the biggest events this weekend will be Saturday’s parade, the block parties on Saturday and Sunday as well as the Saturday night House of Blues party with DJ Abel.
THURSDAY
Pride Absolut Lime Tasting is taking place at Cathedral Station from 5-7PM
Watchout! Designs Summer Trunk Show is at Sister Sorel starting at 6:45PM so come and see the summah fashions that have something to say
Pride Kick Off Cocktail Party is at Peggy O’Neil’s starting at 7PM in Dorchester
Boston Bear Pride: Bears Bare It All starts at 8PM at Paradise in Cambridge
FRIDAY
Out At Fenway watch the Red Sox play host to the Detroit Tigers but before that enjoy a pre Pride cocktail party on the Right Field roof deck
ABC Underwear Party starts at 9PM at the Dark Lady in PVD
Dueling Divas are back for the summer at Mainestreet every Friday night in Ogunquit
Friday Pride Party with Adore Delano starts at 10PM at Machine
Annual Stoplight Party with DJ Gay Jim starts at 10PM at dbar
The Coolidge After Midnite: Twin Peaks: Evil Dead II shows at The Coolidge Theater starting at 11:59PM on Friday, May 12 in Brookline
SATURDAY
SoWa Open Market now open every Saturday through the end of October in Boston
Boston Pride Parade starts at 11AM in Copley Square and runs through the South End before ending at City Hall Plaza
Oops We Did It Again: Britney Pride Brunch starts at 11AM at 647 Tremont — this will fill to capacity so plan ahead.
Chandler Street Block Party this outdoor block party goes to benefit the AIDS Action Committee and runs from 1:30 – 7:00PM
Tea Dance at the ‘Slip with DJ MaryAlice from 4-7PM at the Boatslip in Provincetown
The House of Blues with DJ Abel is the night’s biggest party and will sell out so get your tickets – doors open at 9PM
Underwear Party is every Saturday night starting at 9:30 at Club Purgatory in Provincetown
Dueling Divas are back for the summer at Mainestreet every Saturday night in Ogunquit
The Coolidge After Midnite: Twin Peaks: Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors shows at The Coolidge Theater starting at 11:59PM on Friday, May 12 in Brookline
SUNDAY
SoWa Open Market now open every Sunday through the end of October in Boston
Stronger Together Rally to protest the Trump Administrations disregard for Human Rights is part of a larger national rally happening in Washington DC and around the country on this day so come to the Boston Common at 11AM
Sunday Tea is every week at Mainestreet starting at 4PM in Ogunquit
Tea Dance at the ‘Slip with DJ MaryAlice from 4-7PM at the Boatslip in Provincetown
Goodbye to Pride Party with Katya and DJ Escape starts at 9PM at Candibar
Send me information about your upcoming programs and events in my blog’s comment section or message me the details on Facebook.
I’ve been watching the French Open since the tournament started but I’ll likely miss the biggest matches of the tournament since Sergio and I will be traveling. This year’s tournament has had some amazing matches and some even more dazzling players. Like this Hungarian player, Márton Fucsovics who is currently ranked 148th in the world. Hopefully he can improve his game because I’d love to see more of him on the courts.
How do you say, “More, Please” in Hungarian?
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.
Boston’s bike sharing service, The Hubway, continues to thrive as Boston and surrounding communities work to be more bike-friendly. Last week Hubway announced they would be adding more than 70 new bike-rental stations over the next two years (currently there are 127 bike-rental stations) in the city of Boston.
They will focus on opening new stations in unserved and under served Boston neighborhoods like Roslindale, Dorchester and Mattapan. Hubway noted that they would also add additional stations in existing service areas to better handle demand as well as add new stations in Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline.
If you’d like to learn more about Hubway visit their website thehubway.com.
After spending the past few weeks featuring Instagram accounts of professional photographers and the male models that serve as their muse, I thought I’d go back to featuring accounts of friends. This week I’m featuring the Instagram account of a couple who now live here in Boston. Keegan (shown on the right above) is from Atlanta and Fabio (shown on the left above) is from Sardinia. They are a fun and easy-going couple who I always enjoy seeing.
The short video below of them visiting Sardinia this past summer nicely captures their playful side while giving you a glimpse of the beautiful waters of Sardinia – damn I have to get there some day.
Follow him on Instagram here, instagram.com/kee_fab.
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