Category Archives: Art & Film

June 2023 summer performances in Provincetown

If you’re planning a visit to Provincetown this June, be sure to catch a show. There are so many talented artists who will be coming to Ptown. The listings shared below will continue to be updated throughout the summer and are listed chronologically.

July’s event listings will be published in the last week of June. Alternatively, bookmark this post and check back frequently.

Miss Conception
@Pilgrim House, Ticket Info Here

Anita Cocktail Variety Hour
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Good Night Ptown with Bob Keary
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Illusions Drag Review
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Drag Me to the 80s with Paige Turner
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Miss Richfield 1981: Bad Avice (Starting Jun)
@Pilgrim House, Ticket Info Here

Edie Queen of the Desert (starting Jun)
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Dina Martina (Every Wed-Sun, starting Jun 2)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Ptown Pride Queer Comedy Showcase – Jun 3
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Show Girls (Every Monday, starting Jun 5)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Cabaretfest (Jun 6-11)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

4-Star Solo Show Festival (Jun 7 – 30)
@Provincetown Theater, Ticket Info Here

Schartt$ Creek 2.Ew! (Jun 11 – Jul 16)
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Thirsty Burlington (Every Tuesday, starting Jun 13)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Freedom: The George Michael Experience
With Todd Alsup (Every Wednesday, starting Jun 14)

@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Varla Jean Merman: Stand by Your Drag (starting Jun 16)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Qya’s Intergalactic Disco (Every Friday starting Jun 16)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Let Me Be Your Star (Every Tuesday starting Jun 20)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Broadway on the Beach (Every Wednesday starting Jun 21)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Mack’nifique (Every Thursday starting Jun 22)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Randy Roberts: Aging Disgracefully (Starting Jun 22)
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Elton Undressed (Every Friday, starting Jun 23)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Unauthorized Musical Parody of
Jaws At The White Lotus (Jun 24 – Sep 23)

@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Judy Gold (starting Jun 25)
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Golden Girls in “Ghouls Gold” (Every Sunday starting Jun 25)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Max von Essen: Broadway Series – Jun 30
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

You can also visit the main venues that book talent in Ptown at Art HouseCrown & AnchorPilgrim House, and Post Office Cafe & Cabaret.

There are several options for good live music. Lea Delaria’s space, The Club is one of my favorites. If you prefer a piano and witty cabaret singer, check out Tin Pan Alley and the Dive Bar at The Crown & Anchor.

Men in kilts

Thought I’d mix things up today and share some “kilt art”. The artwork shown above is by David Gilson. You can see more of his content on his website, shop.davidgilson.com or follow him on his Facebook page The Art of David Gilson.

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2023 Provincetown summer performances

If you’re planning a visit to Provincetown this summer, be sure to catch a show. The listings shared below will continue to be updated throughout the summer and are listed chronologically.

Performing All Summer

Miss Conception
@Pilgrim House, Ticket Info Here

Anita Cocktail Variety Hour
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Good Night Ptown with Bob Keary
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Illusions Drag Review
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Drag Me to the 80s with Paige Turner
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Miss Richfield 1981: Bad Avice (Starting Jun)
@Pilgrim House, Ticket Info Here

Edie Queen of the Desert (starting Jun)
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Dina Martina (Every Wed-Sun, starting Jun 2)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Show Girls (Every Monday, starting Jun 5)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Thirsty Burlington (Every Tuesday, starting Jun 13)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Freedom: The George Michael Experience
With Todd Alsup (Every Wednesday, starting Jun 14)

@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Varla Jean Merman: Stand by Your Drag (starting Jun 16)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Qya’s Intergalactic Disco (Every Friday starting Jun 16)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Let Me Be Your Star (Every Tuesday starting Jun 20)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Broadway on the Beach (Every Wednesday starting Jun 21)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Mack’nifique (Every Thursday starting Jun 22)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Randy Roberts: Aging Disgracefully (Starting Jun 22)
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Elton Undressed (Every Friday, starting Jun 23)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Unauthorized Musical Parody of
Jaws At The White Lotus (Jun 24 – Sep 23)

@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

Judy Gold (starting Jun 25)
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Ginger Minge (starting Jul)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Miz Cracker (starting Jul)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

May & June Performances
Including shows listed above

Kristen Becker in “Man in Pants” Comedy Show – May 26 – 28
@Crown and Anchor, Ticket Info Here

Melissa Ferrick – May 27
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Jessie Mueller – May 28
@TownHall, Ticket Info Here

Ptown Pride Queer Comedy Showcase – Jun 3
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Cabaretfest (Jun 6-11)
@The Crown, Ticket Info Here

4-Star Solo Show Festival (Jun 7 – 30)
@Provincetown Theater, Ticket Info Here

Schartt$ Creek 2.Ew! (Jun 11 – Jul 16)
@Post Office Cafe, Ticket Info Here

Max von Essen: Broadway Series (Jun 30 – Jul 1)
@ArtHouse, Ticket Info Here

July Performances
Including shows listed above

Max von Essen: Broadway Series – Jul 1
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Monét X Change – Jul 2
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Cindy Firing: Broadway Series – Jul 7
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Anne Steele – Jul 8
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Audra McDonald – July 9
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

The Fantastics (Jul 10 – Aug 31)
@Provincetown Theater, Ticket Info Here

Eureka O’Hara (Ptown Debut) – Jul 13
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Claybourne Elder: Broadway Series (Jul 14 – 15)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Todd Buonopane: Single and Loving It?? (Jul 14 – 15)
@PostOffice, Ticket Info Here

Wellness Check w John Hill – Jul 18
@Post Office, Ticket Info Here

Jujubee (Jul 19 – 29)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Betty – Jul 20
@Post Office, Ticket Info Here

Nicholas King & Seth Sikes Broadway Series (Jul 21 – 22)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Mandy Gonzalez: Broadway Series (Jul 28 – 29)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

August & September Performances
Including shows listed above

The Fantastics – (Aug 1-31)
@Provincetown Theater, Ticket Info Here

Liz Callaway & Ann Hampton Callaway (Aug 2 – 5)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

An Evening w Richard Skipper – Aug 5
The Magic of Believing
@Post Office, Ticket Info Here

Jeremy Jordan – Aug 6
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Unitard – Aug 9
@ArtHouse, Ticket Info Here

Beth Malone – (Aug 10-11)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Branden & James: You Had Me at Cello (Aug 11 – 12)
@Post Office, Ticket Info Here

Alaska Thunderfuck – Aug 13
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Alyssa Edwards – Aug 17
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

LaChanze – Aug 20
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Marilyn Maye (Aug 23 – Sep 2)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

Nina West – Aug 27
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Samara Joy – Aug 31
@Town Hall, Ticket Info Here

Matt Doyle: Broadway Series (Sep 8 – 9)
@Art House, Ticket Info Here

You can also visit the main venues that book talent in Ptown at Art HouseCrown & AnchorPilgrim House, and Post Office Cafe & Cabaret.

There are several options for good live music. Lea Delaria’s space, The Club is one of my favorites. If you prefer a piano and witty cabaret singer, check out Tin Pan Alley and the Dive Bar at The Crown & Anchor.

Provincetown Film Festival fundraiser

Will you be in Provincetown Saturday, May 20th? Check out the Provincetown Film Festival Society’s first annual Pickleball Tournament to benefit the 25th Anniversary of the popular film festival. You can learn more about this year’s film festival and the Pickleball Tournament (including how to register to participate) by visiting provincetownfilm.org/pickleball-tournament.

Vintage gay

Much thanks to longtime reader, Angel, from Asturias Spain for sharing this great photo and suggesting it for a forthcoming vintage gay post. I love the picture of these two men posing on the beach in the early 1930s.

Previous Vintage Gay Photos

Vintage gay

Previous Vintage Gay Photos

Today is the perfect date, just ask Miss Rhode Island

It’s not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket. Miss Rhode Island and I hope you are enjoying the perfect date.

Vintage gay

Jerry Sullivan, Joe Napoli, Artist & The Bum, 1966

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Wicked Queer invites you to their preview party

Wicked Queer Preview Party is Thursday, March 23, 2023 at Worden Hall 6-9PM (RSVP Here)

Wicked Queer is Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival. The annual celebration will begin at the end of this month but later this week they will be hosting a kick off party that is free to attend.

If you’re an independent movie / queer film enthusiast you should really check out this preview party. In years past, Sergio and I have attended and it’s always a friendly crowd. There is typically information about the festival and some of the films being featured.

Wicked Queer Preview Party
Thursday, March 23, 2023 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
At Worden Hall – Across from Broadway T stop
RSVP for free Here

2023 Wicked Queer Film Festival

Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival runs March 31 – April 9, 2023
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 24th
WQ23 Information & Tickets

Wicked Queer Film Festival (WQ23) will kick off on Friday, March 31st at the ICA-Boston and run through Sunday, April 9th with films also showing at the Brattle Theater, Boston University, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Paramount – 40 films are currently featured on the film festival website.

About Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival (formerly the Boston LGBT Film Festival): Founded in 1984 by film programmer George Mansour. Wicked Queer is the 4th longest running LGBTQ+ Film Festival in North America and is an all volunteer organization. Their mission is to build community and to celebrate Queer storytelling and filmmaking through the uplifting of voices and stories not yet heard and to present and preserve the vibrancy of our histories.

If you would like to learn how to help or to become a volunteer email hello@wickedqueer.org.

Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art

Will you be traveling to New York City in the coming weeks? An exicting new exhibition entitled, Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art, opens in New York City in two locations. The works from “Queer Love” explore the power and significance of intimate queer familial, romantic, and sexual relationships.

The Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx and La MaMa Galleria in the Bowery will both host Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art.

The combined exhibition will bring together work from nearly 50 artists, and run from February 14 – April 23 at Lehman College Gallery and February 18 – April 6 at La MaMa Galleria.

The exhibition is free and open to the public at both galleries.

Playland, one Boston’s most notorious queer bars, is now a movie – but when will it show in Boston

Boston’s Playland Café first opened in The Great Depression (in 1937). The space became one of Boston’s most notorious queer bars, known for attracting a diverse clientele from all over the city. It would close 60+ years later in 1998 after it lost its entertainment license. The debut film by Georden West, an Emerson University graduate, is creating a lot of buzz and will premiere tomorrow at the Rotterdam’s International Film Festival.

Hopefully this film will make its way back across the Atlantic and have a screening here in Boston. I’ll be certain to share more when I learn of a confirmed date.

The film, Playland, is set up as a series of dreamlike interactions capturing moments over the bars 60+ years from the bar’s cooks, waiters, bartenders and drag performers, starting in the the late 1930s and running through the mid-’90s, building narrative with each additional story. West’s use of archival footage of the bar and its surrounding neighborhood, Boston’s Red Light district called the Combat Zone, adds nostalgia, recalling a time when Boston was far less affluent and a much more gritty city.

The Embrace on Boston Common

MLK, boston

A few days before the country will pause to remember and celebrate the legacy of Nobel Laureate, Martin Luther King Jr., Boston will unveil a new 20′ memorial sculpture of both Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, who first met here in Boston in the 1950s when they were both studying. For those unfamiliar with their love story and courting, check out the video, Legacy of Love on YouTube.

This beautiful new sculpture on the Boston Common (near the start of the Freedom Trail and visitor center), is meant to capture the power of love and the love that these two shared for each other. It is a beautiful sentiment and tribute to both of these civil rights leaders. I particularly like that this is a tribute to the couple, recognizing them as equals who practiced their beliefs of non-violence to help change America (and the world for the better).

The sculpture is currently open to the public, but a ceremony to commemorate this new sculpture will take place on Friday morning. The massive piece was designed by sculptor, Hank William Thomas and was inspired by the photo of the couple embracing in 1964, during a news conference, following the announcement that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Photo Credit: Bettmann via Getty Images

For more information about the sculpture, The Embrace, and the work the organization, Embrace Boston is doing to help continue the teachings and work of these two civil rights legends, visit, embraceboston.org.

The 2023 Bob-Spread Calendar

Last year’s innaugural Bob-Spread Calendar was realeased ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The eye-catching pg-13 rated photos were definitely popular, and I made the case that the proceeds from sales which supported the men on the US bobsled team was just icing on the cake for making this purchase. The photos are being included in a new 2023 calendar that is for sale.

The models (and members of the 2022 US Men’s Bob Sled Team) include team: drivers – Hunter Church and Codie Bascue, and push athletes – Hakeem Abdul-Saboor, Kris Horn, Blaine McConnell, Jimmy Reed, Nic Taylor, Carlo Valdes, Charlie Volker and Josh Williamson.

Orders placed by Wednesday, December 21st will arrive in time for Christmas and make for a great gift or Yankee Swap at $25.00.

2023 Bob-Spread Calendar

Margaret Cho comes to The Wilbur this April

Last week Margaret Cho announced her new tour, Live and LIVID. The 20+ city tour starts in early March but doesn’t arrive in Boston until Thursday, April 13th at The Wilbur Theater in Boston’s Theater District.

Tickets went on sale December 9th so don’t delay in making plans, because she will sell out! Hopefully she will add a second show for that evening. This would make for a fantastic night out with friends or a fun Christmas gift for that hard to buy for guy gay.

Margaret Cho is Live and LIVID at The Wilbur