Category Archives: Gay

The Gay Beer Club (GBC) is a Boston based organization that produces events and gatherings for members of the gay community who love beer and would like to enjoy new and tasty brews with friends.

GCB meets every Sunday at 7:00pm at the Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square.

With many of New England’s breweries now shipping their Octoberfest brews, this might make for a great time to check out the group.  If you cannot join them later today, “like” their GayBeerClub Facebook page to stay up to date with their planned events and check them out next Sunday.

Trevor Lifeline: (866) 488-7386

In 2010, outraged by so many gay and lesbian youth committing suicide, Dan Savage created the It Gets Better Project.  Now the Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth has now launched the Talk To Me campaign. 

It is Labor Day in the United States, and I’m going to sleep in.  No matter where you live or call home, I hope you have a wonderful day.

To celebrate Ray Ban’s 75th anniversary they launched the “Never Hide” ad campaign.  The campaign has scores of images of people from all over with the catchy slogan to promote their brand.

However, it was this bold image of two gay men walking through a bustling street from a bygone era, that gave me pause.  It made me realize how much I take for granted.  I can never adequately repay the men and women who were brave enough to step out of the closet before me.  The scorn and sacrifice they endured I can only imagine. It was their bravery that made society a safer, better place for me.  Its a debt that I will never be able to pay back but I’ll start by saying, thank you.

Attitude Magazine is a UK-based online magazine I enjoy perusing.  Actually, earlier this year I featured the cover of their Naked Issue.

Later this fall they will be hosting their first-ever Attitude Awards in London.  Leading up to the big event, Attitude is encouraging readers to vote for their Hottest Man of the Year by choosing their favorite cover.

So who will you be voting for? You have to admit if politicians looked like this, getting the youth vote out in the US would be a cinch.

So I’m shallow. You are too if you keep staring.

Last summer I wrote This is him and while visiting Ptown this past weekend a reader I met mentioned how much they enjoyed the story so I thought I’d re-post.

Dan Savage poignant “It Gets Better Campaign” came about because of a grim reality regarding how marginalized gay and lesbian kids feel and the bullying that further isolates them. This past weekend, I was reminded of the happier side of Dan Savage’s campaign – the part that addresses “The Better”…

There is a young man (18 years old to be exact) who lives in my complex. At first glance he looks like a tough city kid. His Boston accent, stocky build which mimics his gigantic father and cigarette permanently hanging from his lips makes him look anything like his friendly, easy-going personality. This kid (let’s call him Adam), comes from a solid blue collar, take no crap kind of family. We’ve been neighbors for a few years now and while I don’t know his whole story, I do know that he’s gay.

As far as I was aware, he was closeted (maybe he still is). However, the other day he told me with quite a bit of pride that his boyfriend was coming to visit him. I was happy for him and told him so, but it wasn’t until I saw him later this weekend that I realized how happy. On Sunday afternoon as my partner and I were driving through the courtyard we looked up and saw Adam with a friend. When Adam recognized us he lit up and started shouting as loud as he could pointing to the other young man. “This is Him!” I think he must have said it 2-3 more times at the top of his lungs. He was so excited and proud. And seeing this young, tough-kid from Boston all excited to be with his boyfriend and be shouting it for all the world to hear made me think you know what Dan Savage is right, it does get better. And if you’re lucky like Adam – you don’t have to wait that long to realize it.