Category Archives: Gay

This weekend the highlight has to be Boston’s No Pants Subway Ride, but there are also plenty of parties including FASCINATION Friday, La Boum: Queer Dance Party and HEROES Saturdays to name just a few.  

If you’re all partied out you can always check out Wicked Queer Cinema Club movie on Friday or head over to Trophy Room’s Boi Butter Brunch.

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

Wicked Queer Cinema Club presents Summer (Zomer) at the Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount at 7PM in Boston

FASCINATION Friday is a monthly gear/ fetish/ kink night at Jacques the 1st and 4th Friday of the month in Boston

La Boum: Queer Dance Party is hosting their first party of the year on Friday at The Milky Way in Jamaica Plain

Boston’s No Pants Subway Ride is Sunday

Grunt is a weekly dance party with no cover for burly men and their admirers, starting at 10PM at the Alley Bar in DTX

HEROES Saturdays plays 80s new wave at Machine with DJ Chris Ewan, starting at 10PM in Boston

Saga Saturdays Boston’s biggest gay dance party at Paradise in Cambridge

Boi Butter Brunch is the first Sunday has DJ Colby Drasher plays music, movie clips and more from 1-4PM at Trophy Room on Sunday

Boston’s No Pants Subway Ride is taking place on Sunday from 2-5PM on the MBTA in Boston

Sunday 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

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

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Do you have a holiday hangover? Fortunately there are plenty of ways to distract you including the usual suspects: Drag Bingo on Monday at CC, Trivia Tuesday (a new addition) at Dorchester Brewery Co., Atomic Karaoke  at CC on Wednesday, Bear Trivia Night at The Alley and Karaoke Thursdays at Machine (both on Thursday) plus a bunch more fun midweek events.

This weekend the highlight has to be Boston’s No Pants Subway Ride, but there are also plenty of parties including FASCINATION Friday, La Boum: Queer Dance Party and HEROES Saturdays to name just a few.  

Provincetown’s Annual Polar Bear Plunge is Monday, Jan. 1.

MONDAY – THURSDAY

2018 Polar Bear Plunge will take place on Monday, despite ridiculously cold temperatures from 12-3PM at The Harbor Lounge in Provincetown

Drag Bingo on Monday starts at 7PM free to play at Club Cafe in Boston

New Year’s Day Mixer is being hosted by Stonewall Sports from 8:30-10:30PM at Scholars Lounge near DTX in Boston

Trivia Tuesday is every Tuesday at the Dorchester Brewing Company and starts at 7:30PM in Dorchester

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

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

Queer Boston Board Gamers is meeting on Wednesday from 6-9PM at the Panera Bread at Porter Square in Cambridge

Angelica Maria Features at the Boston Poetry Slam is on Wednesday and starts at 7PM at the Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge

Atomic Karaoke with DJ Stevie Psyclone & Jonathan Brett is every Wednesday at Club Cafe in Boston

Houseboi 2yr Anniversary! w/ James Cerne and Meatball doors open at 9PM at the Middlesex located between MIT and Central Square in Cambridge

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

Bear 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

Boston’s No Pants Subway Ride is this Sunday

THE WEEKEND

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

SoWa First Fridays runs from 5-9PM at 450 Harrison Avenue in Boston

Wicked Queer Cinema Club presents Summer (Zomer) at the Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount at 7PM in Boston

FASCINATION Friday is a monthly gear/ fetish/ kink night at Jacques the 1st and 4th Friday of the month in Boston

La Boum: Queer Dance Party is hosting their first party of the year on Friday at The Milky Way in Jamaica Plain

Grunt is a weekly dance party with no cover for burly men and their admirers, starting at 10PM at the Alley Bar in DTX

HEROES Saturdays plays 80s new wave at Machine with DJ Chris Ewan, starting at 10PM in Boston

Saga Saturdays Boston’s biggest gay dance party at Paradise in Cambridge

Boi Butter Brunch is the first Sunday has DJ Colby Drasher plays music, movie clips and more from 1-4PM at Trophy Room on Sunday

Boston’s No Pants Subway Ride is taking place on Sunday from 2-5PM on the MBTA in Boston

Sunday 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

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.

This past year many in the LGBTQ community have felt under attack. GLAAD details many direct and indirect things that President Trump has done and said over the past year here; a few highlights include:

• Minutes after being sworn into office, any mention of the LGBTQ community were erased from White House, Department of State, and Department of Labor websites.
• This past summer President Trump bans transgender service members from serving in “any capacity” in the U.S. military, threatening to fire 15,000 currently serving troops over Twitter.
• This fall Trump becomes the first sitting president to speak at the Family Reseach Council’s Values Voter Summit, a convening of fringe groups united around discrimination against LGBTQ people.

Couple these with the 50+ actions and comments highlighted on the GLAAD page with the fact that hate groups like Neo Nazis and the KKK have been provided a platform, that they regularly use to thank President Trump and it isn’t a surprise that many in our community are upset.

Clinton’s abysmal loss came as a shock to our community and after coming to terms with the election results it appears that many of you are once again opening your wallets to resist. An annual analysis of LGBTQ movement by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) finds revenue and individual contributions for LGBTQ organizations are on the rise again. You can read MAPs key findings press release here and download their report here.

There is never a good time to bring up a difficult topic but while I revel in the holidays – a lot of LGBQ youth find this time especially difficult. So even though it may seem inopportune to broach the subject, I wanted to share a report that has found a “startling rise in U.S. suicide rates” and more disturbing is the news that LGBQ teens are at far greater risk.

Researchers from San Diego State University recently conducted an experiment, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, to analyze suicide attempts among America’s youth.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning teens were found to be more than four times as likely to attempt suicide. 

The risk for gay, bisexual and questioning males was even higher, with nearly 39% of bisexual boys indicating they had considered suicide. Researchers lacked data on gender identity or trans youth, who may have an even higher risk.

I don’t think that my friends and family who are not LGBTQ can quite fathom the impact the messages coming from the Trump administration have. I was traumatized by the AIDS crisis and Reagan’s heartless response in the 1980s and it breaks my heart to think that in many of today’s youth may feel the same way.  While it truly does get better, when you feel isolated, telling someone to hang in there isn’t exactly a hopeful message. We need to do more for these kids. If you’d like to read the article that inspired this post, click here. If you’d like to help, you can volunteer or make a donation to The Samaratins and or The Trevor Project.

Photo Credit: Izzy Berdan

This week will pass quickly but I hope you can get out and enjoy some of the parties and special events that will take place in and around Boston. 

The critically acclaimed Call Me By Your Name is now playing at The Coolidge and on Thursday The Brattle will be showing All About Eve. If you’d rather do something a bit more social head out to one of the several karaoke nights in town on Tuesday at Jacque’s, on Wednesday at Club Cafe and Thursday at Machine, or head out to one of the trivia nights like Stump Trivia on Tuesday or Bear Trivia on Thursday.

Finally for the weekend leading up to NYE there are so many parties it is hard to capture everything but if you’re up in Ogunquit be sure to check out Mainestreet’s NYE party Fire & Ice, in Provincetown A-House will be packed for New Year’s Eve celebration, in Providence check out EGOs NYE Block Party and in Boston while there are a lot of choices the largest party will be Chris Harris Presents New Year’s Eve Party at Paradise open til 4AM.

MONDAY – THURSDAY

Call Me By Your Name is playing on Christmas Day at 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 and 9:45PM at The Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline

Christmas Dinner with Ed is on Monday (Christmas) from 5PM – 10PM (bar is open until 2AM) at the Alley Bar in Boston

All Star Mondays: Christmas in Toyland celebrate the holidays – early show at 11:30 / late show at 12:30 at Machine in Boston

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

POP2K Tuesday’s Pajama Party is at the Dark Lady on Tuesday in Providence

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

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

Atomic Karaoke with DJ Stevie Psyclone & Jonathan Brett is every Wednesday at Club Cafe in Boston

Queer Boston Board Gamers is meeting on Thursday from 6-9PM at the Panera Bread at Porter Square in Cambridge

All About Eve (possibly my favorite movie of all-time) is playing at 3:15 and 8PM on Thursday at the Brattle in Cambridge

Bear 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

Boston’s largest NYE Party will be at Paradise

THE WEEKEND

First Light celebrations start Friday morning and conclude with free fireworks on the beach on Monday, January 1  in Provincetown

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

Illusions Holiday Show is at The Crown & Anchor on Friday in Provincetown

Casual Fridays is a weekly dance party with no cover featuring DJ Begbick at the Alley Bar in DTX

New Year’s weeknd in Provincetown has a bunch of parties to check out

NYE Weekend at Shipwreck Lounge invites you to join them Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Provincetown

Well Strung: Home for the Holidays perform on Saturday at Town Hall in Provincetown

Miss Richfield: Fall on your knees is Saturday at 7PM at the Sage Inn in Provincetown

New Year’s Eve Eve is a party hosted at the Oberon on Saturday starting at 9PM in Cambridge

Dont Ask Dont Tell: Luminous ft. Leah V & Dirty Charity is at Great Scott this Saturday in Allston

Grunt is a weekly dance party with no cover for burly men and their admirers, starting at 10PM at the Alley Bar in DTX

Saga Saturdays Boston’s biggest gay dance party at Paradise in Cambridge

The Donkey Show: NYE Ed. join the cast for the final performance of 2017 and ring in 2018 to your favorite Studio 54 music at the Oberon in Cambridge

The biggest party in Providence is at Club EGO with special guest AJA

EGOs NYE Block Party starts at 9PM and will take over Richmond Street (w/ heated tents) and a special performance by RPDR, AJA in Providence

NYE: Farwell to 2017 is at dbar on Sunday starting at 11PM in Dorchester

The Alley’s NYE Bash will have DJ Steve Marsden playing all your favorite music on Sunday in Boston

New Year’s Eve celebration at the A-House in Provincetown

Fire & Ice is Mainestreet’s New Year’s Eve bash in Ogunquit

Chris Harris Presents New Years Eve is Boston’s largest LGBTQ dance party at Paradise (open til 4AM) in Cambridge

Send me information about your upcoming programs and events in my blog’s comment section or message me the details on Facebook.