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.
There is plenty happening in Boston tonight if sipping an adult beverage and handing out candy and on your front stoop is not part of your plans. Below, I’ve shared a few options.
The Enchanted Forest – BAGLY Halloween Party on Wednesday, will have food, fun, games, and music (intended for LGBTQ+ youth 22 and under)
Dragathon Spooktacular Halloween Night is on Wednesday starting at 7PM at Royale (all ages welcome)
MOVIE: Psycho with the Boston Pops join Keith Lockhart and the Pops on Halloween night as they perform the original movie score in sync with the film on the big screen, starting at 8PM at Symphony Hall.
MOVIE DOUBLE FEATURE: Halloween & Halloween 4 is on Halloween night and runs from 7-11PM at the Coolidge in Brookline
Cirque of the Dead starts at 7:00 and 10:00 PM at the Oberon in Cambridge
Halloween with Honey Davenport is no trick and all treat at Club Cafe with $500 in cash and prizes for their costume contest
MOVIE: The Rocky Horror Picture Show w/ Live Shadowcast is on Halloween night at the Somerville Theater
The Black Pearl Haunted Cruise sets sail (so to speak) on Halloween night in Boston Harbor from 8PM – 12AM
WePartyGroup on Instagram is an international gay party organizer that originated in Madrid about eight years ago and is now hosting huge parties all over the world. Their theme parties make for an excellent Instagram account to suggest during Halloween since their photos with perfectly made up models look like something us mere mortals could only hope to create when stepping out this week to our local bars or house parties.
Follow this account on Instagram here, instagram.com/wepartygroup.
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Hopefully the caption I’ve shared below inspires you to offer up a caption or two of your own. Leave a witty or funny caption as a comment for this post, and I’ll approve it for readers to enjoy.
“Trick = Treat… Happy Halloween”
Often the LGBTQ community looks to pop culture icons as our allies. Over the past decade as being gay has become more accepted, we’ve started to also see allies step forward in sports and the business community.
“Being gay is God’s greatest gift to me.”
– Tim Cook, Apple CEO
Four years ago Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, became the first Fortune 500 CEO to publicly acknowledge he is gay. Last week Cook went a step further, saying “Being gay is God’s greatest gift to me.” He said he felt the need to share his comments to respond to stories he was hearing about increased bullying, families making life difficult for kids grappling with their sexuality and rising suicide rates among gay teens.
Tim Cook is not just a CEO. He is the CEO of one of the most admired companies in the world with a brand and name recognition that any company would envy. Earlier this summer Apple became the first American public company to cross $1 trillion in value. While its success is in large part attributed to the founder, Steve Jobs, Cook has done an admirable job making sure that Apple continues to grow. and succeed in a very competitive industry. I would like to see more executives speak out and up. Role models are around us everywhere and we can draw inspiration from them, but sometimes we need to be reminded so thanks for speaking up Tim. I’m sure that your sentiments have helped many and perhaps challenged misconceptions some people may have about what it means to be gay.
Here is yet another photo of the very handsome NH-native Nick Sandell.
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Earlier this week I read on NewNowNext that a remake of the mid-90s film Clueless is being explored. My initial reaction was, “As if!?!“. While I loved the original and am still prone to use lingo from the movie (Full on Monet, Betty and Fashion Victim just to name a few) – you can read through an extensive library of terminology the film used and helped make popular, here.
To say I’m buggin’ would be an understatement because what made the movie so great (for me) was how much it captured and poked fun at the stereotypes of the day – especially teenage Southern Californians. A remake of this film will need to tap into similar cultural touchstones of the day, but as a 40-something I doubt I’m tapped into the zeitgeist of today’s teens so much of the humor and references will likely go above my head. Having said that, I’ll probably go see it because I do love the original and will be curious to see how the movie was updated to make it relevant.
What about you? Did you see Clueless and did you love it? Would you go see a remake or would you likely skip it all together? Do tell, I’m genuinely curious.
Enjoy this Halloween themed Men in Kilts post; handsome highlanders.
Halloween parties and nights dominate what’s happening this week. Movie fans check out Psycho with the Boston Pops on Monday and Halloween night. On Tuesday check out Alien at the Museum of Science. On Halloween night check out The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Live Shadowcast is at the Somerville theater and The Coolidge has a Halloween & Halloween 4 double feature. This weekend the Coolidge’s “Movies after Midnite” will show The Amityville Murders starting at 11:59PM on Friday and Saturday nights.
There are some non-Halloween activities also taking place which you may want to check out including the final Stonewall Sports Billiards League and Open Play on Monday, both the Violent Femmes and Jake Shears are in town and performing, and finally ILLUMINUS 2018 takes place on Friday and Saturday night in Downtown Crossing.
Movie performances are on Monday and Wednesday at Symphony Hall
Pizza & Game Night is every Monday from 5-9PM (check out their ping pong and foosball tables) at Dorchester Brewery in Dorchester
Drag Bingo is every Monday starting at 7PM free to play at Club Cafe in Boston
Stonewall Sports Billiards League and Open Play is each Monday through November 5th from 7:30 – 10PM at Scholars in Boston
MOVIE: Psycho with the Boston Pops join Keith Lockhart and the Pops as they perform the original movie score in sync with the film on the big screen, starting at 8PM at Symphony Hall.
Cards Against Sobriety hosted every Monday night at the Alley join your friends for a fun game of Cards Against Humanity starting at 8PM in Boston
No Filter You can catch #NoFilter every first Monday of the month upstairs with a kooky theme, and every third Friday of the month downstairs at Jacques with no theme, where anything goes 10PM-12AM in Boston
All Star Mondays is a weekly drag show with performances at 11:30PM and 12:30AM at Machine in Boston
Trivia Tuesday is every Tuesday at the Dorchester Brewing Company and starts at 7:30PM in Dorchester
Dirty Water Saloon Line Dancing for Queers & friends has country-western two-step, west coast swing and line dancing each Tuesday from 7-10PM (all are welcome) at the Milky Way Lounge in JP
Violent Femmes come to Royale Boston for one show on Tuesday night
Have a kiki with Jake Shears who performs on Tuesday night at the Brighton Music Hall
MOVIE: Alien starring Sigourney Weaver under the dome at the Museum of Science on Tuesday night in Boston
SPOOKY 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
The Enchanted Forest – BAGLY Halloween Party on Wednesday, will have food, fun, games, and music (intended for LGBTQ+ youth 22 and under)
Dragathon Spooktacular Halloween Night is on Wednesday starting at 7PM at Royale (all ages welcome)
MOVIE: Psycho with the Boston Pops join Keith Lockhart and the Pops on Halloween night as they perform the original movie score in sync with the film on the big screen, starting at 8PM at Symphony Hall.
MOVIE DOUBLE FEATURE: Halloween & Halloween 4 is on Halloween night and runs from 7-11PM at the Coolidge in Brookline
Cirque of the Dead starts at 7:00 and 10:00 PM at the Oberon in Cambridge
MOVIE: The Rocky Horror Picture Show w/ Live Shadowcast is on Halloween night at the Somerville Theater
MOVIE: Hocus Pocus is showing at 8PM at Mainestreet in Ogunquit
The Black Pearl Haunted Cruise is on Halloween night from 8PM – 12AM
Siren Trivia is every Wednesday at 9PM at the Trophy Room bar in Boston
Atomic Karaoke with DJ Stevie Psyclone & Jonathan Brett is every Wednesday at Club Cafe in Boston
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
#Yaasss Thursdays presents: Sissy That Walk weekly drag competition the last Thursday of each month Showtime: 12:30AM at Club Cafe in Boston
Illuminus Boston returns to Downtown Crossing Friday & Saturday evenings
THE WEEKEND
SoWa First Friday come over to SoWa and walk through the many art galleries and artist studios from 5-9PM in Boston’s South End
Queer Inclusive Climbing Klub (QuICK) Pizza night and climbing club at Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville
Dinner & a Movie: Bohemian Rhapsody is being organized by Guy Social Boston and there are a limited number of tickets so make plans ASAP if you’d like to join in the fun and see this movie with a friendly group of men on Friday
ILLUMINUS 2018 is a contemporary arts festival that features original installations, video projections and performances by artists who work in the medium of light and sound on Friday and Saturday starting at 6PM in DTX
La Boum Queer Dance Party is hosted the first Friday of each month starting at 10PM at the Milky Way in JP
Guerrilla Queer Bar (GQB) will take over another “straight” bar this Friday starting at 9PM – Location to be announced on Thursday
Casual Fridays is a weekly dance party with no cover featuring DJ Begbick at the Alley Bar in DTX
FASCINATION Friday is a monthly gear/ fetish/ kink night at Jacques the 1st and 4th Friday of the month in Boston
MOVIE: The Amityville Murders is part of the Coolidge’s Movies after Midnite series and will play both Friday and Saturday night starting at 11:59PM
H E R O E S Saturday (New Venue) Retro dance party hosted the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month from 10PM-2AM at Sonia (formerly TT The Bear’s Place) in Central Square
Video Night Tracks every Saturday night join VJ Ryan Grow at Cathedral Station starting at 9:30PM
The Donkey Show is the ultimate disco experience is a story inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream each Saturday at Club Oberon in Cambridge.
Underbear is Saturday, at The Alley
Underbear has no cover and free clothing check so come down and check out this monthly party, starting at 10PM at the Alley Bar in DTX
Blend with DJ AGA starts at 10PM in Dorchester
EXTRA Featuring Amanda Lepore is Saturday night at Machine starting at 10PM in Boston
UNITE Saturdays is a weekly dance party at Club Cafe with DJ Susan Esthera (no cover before 11PM) in Boston
Back to the 90s Brunch is at Trophy Room on Sunday starting at 11AM
Drag Me To Brunch Drag yourself to Carrie Nation Cocktail Club and check-out what all the buzz is about starting at 11AM; the drag show runs from 2pm-4pm(ish) 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.
My parents spent most of their lives either working or taking care of their four children. Since retirement that has all changed. In some ways their lives more closely mirror the life Sergio and I lead – meeting up and going out or planning fun trips with friends regularly.
Seth Meyers and his younger (and every bit as funny) brother Josh Meyers grew up in our small town. Together they logged more than a few hours in the backseat of my Mom’s station wagon being brought back from school or team practices so when my parents planned a quick trip to NYC last week with two other couples, they stopped in to check out Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Two things strike me about this photo – first, my mother who is 5’7″ looks tiny and second, my parents are way cooler.
I like everything about this week’s Scruffy Sunday post – including their onesies.
Adding a bit of skin to this week’s coffee post to see which gets you going faster, the caffeine or sex appeal. Feel free to let me know which works best for you.
ADAM & ANDY is set in the fictional New England town of Woodfield, CT. You can learn more about this strip by visiting, adamandandy.com.
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