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What to do this weekend
There is a lot happening in Boston this weekend including Boston Design Week, PAX East and WQ Film Festival, which opened last Thursday has their WQ: Closing party at Serafina on Saturday.
This is also the first Friday of the month, which means it is also SoWa First Fridays, Guerrilla Queer Bar (GQB) and FASCINATION First Friday (just to name a few things happening). Additionally, AIDS Action hosts teh 29th Annual Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast and there is the DotOUT’s Annual Spring Thang (both on Saturday). Finally be sure to check out this week’s very special Sunday Tea Dance Featuring a live performance by Robin S. at Club Cafe.
PAX East Comes to Boston this weekend
SoWa First Fridays runs from 5-9PM at 450 Harrison Avenue in Boston
Queer Inclusive Climbing Klub (QuICK) Pizza night and climbing club at Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville
Anna Christie (Opening Night) is a Pulitzer Prize winning classic play by Eugene O’Neill from the Lyric Stage Co., that runs through May 6 in Boston
Guerrilla Queer Bar (GQB) is this Friday (location to be determined) starting at 9PM in Boston
Casual Fridays is a weekly dance party with no cover featuring DJ Begbick at the Alley Bar in DTX
Beyonce vs. Rihanna (Tribute // Dance Party) is hosted by Controversy and starts at 9PM at the Middle East in Central Square Cambridge
Latin Friday is upstairs at Machine every Friday starting at 10PM in Boston
FASCINATION First Friday is a monthly gear/ fetish/ kink night at Jacques the 1st and 4th Friday of the month in Boston
AccousticaElectronica performs at The Oberon on Friday night
AcousticaElectronica: Immersive Music & Dance Show returns to the Oberon again this month on Friday in Cambridge
29th Annual Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast starts at 9:30 AM at the JFK Presidential Library in Dorchester
DotOUT’s Annual Spring Thang starts at 11:30 – 1PM at the Blarney Stone in Dorchester
Boston Gaymers at Gold Fruit PAX East Meetup is on Saturday and starts at 8PM at Cathedral Station in Boston
Wicked Queer Closing Night Party takes place downtown at Serafina’s following closing night movie: Anchor and Hope in Boston
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.
Grunt is a weekly dance party with no cover for burly men and their admirers, starting at 10PM at the Alley Bar in DTX
EXTRA featuring AJA from RuPaul’s Drag Race 18+ night for this special party at Machine on Saturday
Saga Saturdays Boston’s biggest gay dance party at Paradise in Cambridge
Head to Carrie Nation Cocktail Club on Sunday at 2PM
Drag Me To Brunch starts at 2PM and is hosted by Carrie Nation Cocktail Club on Sunday in Boston
Sunday Tea Dance Featuring a live performance by Robin S. will be playing great music from 70s 80s & 90s, starting at 6PM at Club Cafe in Boston
Sunday Seaport Takeover is hosted by Boston Pride on Sunday from 12-4PM at Scorpion Bar 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 w/ Mayhem Miller from RPDR at Candibar in the Theater District on 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.
Boston Red Sox home opener is today
Photo Credit: Patrick Lentz Photography
It may be a bit chilly for baseball but New Englanders have a perverse notion of what is spring. Later today the Boston Red Sox will take to the field for the team’s 106th season at Fenway Park in Boston – arguably the most beautiful major league baseball park and certainly my favorite.
For those of you who are excited about the 2018 MLB Season, The Welcoming Committee in Boston is hosting a “Take Over” of Fenway Park and have purchased a block of tickets for Monday, April 30th when the Red Sox host the Kansas City Royals. This will sell out so if you’re interested get your tickets now.
Vintage gay
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.
RuPaul Drag Race: Werq The World tickets on sale
RuPaul Drag Race: Werq The World Tour will return to Boston on Thursday, September 6th at the Shubert Theatre in Boston. Hosted by Bob The Drag Queen with performances by the queens from Season 10 along with fan favorites like Kim Chi, Valentina, Shangela and Violet Chachki. Tickets have already gone on sale so if you’re a RPDR fan, you’ll want to pick up tickets to this show before it sells out.
Get Your Tickets to Werq The World Tour at the Shubert – Sept 6th
If you don’t live in Boston check out the official tour site since this show is being performed in 30+ cities throughout North America. The tour in Europe will start in May. More details about the show and purchasing tickets can be found online at RuPaul’s Drag Race: Werq The World Tour.
This week on Instagram: menwithopenlegs
This week’s featured Instagram account is for those who want to add some eye candy to their IG feed. Although the account has a decent following, it may not be on your radar. As you might expect the photos lean towards the provocative.
Sadly, I just learned today that this account has been either deleted or removed.
Do you like this weekly post? Check out previously featured IG accounts here.
Caption this photo
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.
“Darwin Awards Nominee“
The Boston Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Each Tuesday I’m featuring a different LGBTQ club or organization to help connect gay men living in the Boston area. One such group I’ve wanted to feature since I started this weekly post is The Boston Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. This group is one of Boston’s more unique and visible LGBTQ groups. The group freely gives of their time to virtually every LGBTQ organization and event you can imagine throughout New England.
The Boston Sisters are a House of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc, which was originally founded in San Francisco nearly forty years ago and now includes more than 2,000 Sisters worldwide. The Boston chapter was founded a little more recently in 2009 and they have definitely been a welcome addition to our community. I love seeing the Sisters out in public and anyone interested in learning more about the good work they do as well as the more social component of their convent, I’d recommend you reach out to them. They are lovely – every single one of these sisters. For more information about this fabulous group of gals, check them out online at thebostonsisters.org.
I want to feature the LGBTQ groups and organizations that help people connect and enrich Boston’s gay life. If you’d like to have your club / team featured, please email me at bosguymail@gmail.com or via FB messenger.
Boston ranks least friendly city in America for food trucks
According to a recent ranking by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Mayor Walsh and the city of Boston are the worst city for an entrepreneur to open and run a food truck.
The Food Truck Index – an industry that contributes more than $2b nationally – finds that Boston is prohibitively expensive and is overly bureaucratic. The index, reviewed regulations in twenty of America’s largest cities. They focused on the permitting processes and licensing, complying with restrictions and operating a food truck. The findings were based on on fees, trips to government agencies and the number and level of government procedures from nearly 300 food truck operators in the twenty cities.
While I don’t expect (or want) to live in a city where there is no oversight, it seems like Mayor Walsh and the City of Boston are openly hostile to the food trucks. For example, in Denver, food truck operators need to make 8 trips to licensing agencies, follow 10 procedures, and pay an average $811 to get their trucks up and running. In Boston, the average cost in fees is $17,066, and to add insult to injury they must make nearly 3X as many trips (22 trips) to government agencies to ensure they are in compliance with more than 30 procedures.
When you compare the out-of-pocket cost for obtaining permits and licenses for a new food truck in Boston it is so incredibly out-of-step to other cities. Even Seattle which ranked 19 out of 20 cities only costs $6,211 (almost 3x less). If you remove both Boston and Seattle from this list, the average cost in fees for the remaining 18 cities is $1,622; Boston’s fees are roughly 10X that amount.
The astronomical cost associated with permitting and licensing doesn’t stop there either because operating a food truck in Boston is estimated to cost nearly $38,000 in Boston (also ranking us last). Realizing that the cost of operating a food truck in a city like Boston is going to be more expensive than many places in the U.S., the least the city could do is make the licensing and permitting process more affordable and less onerous.
Mayor Walsh – Boston can do better than this.
Temptation Tuesday
I’ve selected this week’s temptation with my friend Paul in mind because today is his birthday. For those of you who know Paul, be sure to wish him a happy bday.
Lyric Stage Company presents Anna Christie
Later this week The Lyric Stage Company in the Back Bay will open their new show, Anna Christie. The Pulitzer Prize winning play by Eugene O’Neill still has tickets available, but the show which opens on Friday, April 6 will close on May 6 so get your tickets while they remain available. Tickets to the show are $55 each.
What to do this week: April 2 – 8
There is a lot happening in Boston this week including Boston Design Week, which starts on Wednesday, PAX East, which starts on Thursday and WQ Film Festival, which opened last Thursday and runs through this week.
However, if none of those multi-day events appeal why don’t you head over to Sports Night at Peggy’s on Wednesday, Throwback 90s Queeraoke on Thursday at the Milky Way Lounge or Atomic 80s Night on Thursday at Zuzu.
Over the weekend there is plenty to do as well including SoWa First Fridays, Beyonce vs. Rihanna (Tribute // Dance Party) on Saturday and this weekend’s very special Sunday Tea Dance featuring a live performance by Robin S. at Club Cafe.
Pizza & Game Night is every Monday from 5-9PM (check out their ping pong and foosball tables) at Dorchester Brewery in Dorchester
QBBG Field Trip to Aeronaut Brewing Company Queer Boston Board Gamers head to Aeronaut Brewing Co at 6PM on Monday in Somerville
Drag Bingo is every Monday starting at 7PM free to play at Club Cafe 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
Boston Design Week starts on Wednesday and runs through April 15 – hosting events throughout the city
Sports Night at Peggy’s is every Wednesday night at Peggy O’Neil’s pub in Dorchester
Atomic Karaoke with DJ Stevie Psyclone & Jonathan Brett is every Wednesday at Club Cafe in Boston
Houseboi featuring DJs Colby Drasher and Kurt Fowl takes place on Wednesday night starting at 9PM at the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge
Resilience Among Sexual and Gender Minority Healthcare Providers join guest speaker, Carl G Streed Jr MD, Fellow, Division of General Internal Medicine & Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Thursday from 12:30 – 1:30 at Harvard Medical School
PAX East opens in Boston on Thursday and runs through Sunday at the Boston Convention and Exhibit Center
ICA Boston every Thursday from 5PM – 9PM admission is free to the public
Queer Boston Board Gamers is meeting Thursday from 6-9PM at the Panera Bread at Porter Square in Cambridge
Movie Night featuring Burlesque starts at 7PM on Thursday at Mainestreet in Ogunquit
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Star 3 Multiple viewing parties will take place at 8PM on Thursday at Jacques in Bay Village, The Alley Bar in DTX, Peggy O’Neil’s in Dorchester and Trophy Room in South End
Bear Trivia Night is at 8PM every Thursday at The Alley Bar in DTX Boston
WQ Film Festival: Men’s Shorts 2018 plays at the MFA Boston on Thursday starting at 8:30PM in Boston
Throwback 90s Queeraoke starts at 9PM at the Milky Way Lounge on Thursday in Jamaica Plain
BRASH | Queer Party is hosted every fourth Thursday at Brass Union from 9PM – 1AM in Union Square, Somerville
Atomic 80s Night is back on Thursday at Zuzu in Central Square
Karaoke Thursdays is every Thursday at Machine with your hosts Rob Botelho and Emphysema Menthol 100s in Boston
Bayard Rustin Breakfast is April 7th at the JFK Library
THE WEEKEND
SoWa First Fridays runs from 5-9PM at 450 Harrison Avenue in Boston
Queer Inclusive Climbing Klub (QuICK) Pizza night and climbing club at Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville
Anna Christie (Opening Night) is a Pulitzer Prize winning classic play by Eugene O’Neill from the Lyric Stage Co., that runs through May 6 in Boston
Guerrilla Queer Bar (GQB) is this Friday (location to be determined) starting at 9PM in Boston
Casual Fridays is a weekly dance party with no cover featuring DJ Begbick at the Alley Bar in DTX
Beyonce vs. Rihanna (Tribute // Dance Party) is hosted by Controversy and starts at 9PM at the Middle East in Central Square Cambridge
Latin Friday is upstairs at Machine every Friday starting at 10PM in Boston
FASCINATION First Friday is a monthly gear/ fetish/ kink night at Jacques the 1st and 4th Friday of the month in Boston
AcousticaElectronica: Immersive Music & Dance Show returns to the Oberon again this month on Friday in Cambridge
29th Annual Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast starts at 9:30 AM at the JFK Presidential Library in Dorchester
DotOUT’s Annual Spring Thang starts at 11:30 – 1PM at the Blarney Stone in Dorchester
Boston Gaymers at Gold Fruit PAX East Meetup is on Saturday and starts at 8PM at Cathedral Station in Boston
Video Night Tracks every Saturday night join VJ Ryan Grow at Cathedral Station starting at 9:30PM
Donkey Show is every Saturday at the Oberon
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.
Grunt is a weekly dance party with no cover for burly men and their admirers, starting at 10PM at the Alley Bar in DTX
EXTRA featuring AJA from RuPaul’s Drag Race 18+ night for this special party at Machine on Saturday
Saga Saturdays Boston’s biggest gay dance party at Paradise in Cambridge
Drag Me To Brunch starts at 2PM and is hosted by Carrie Nation Cocktail Club on Sunday in Boston
Sunday Tea Dance Featuring a live performance by Robin S. will be playing great music from 70s 80s & 90s, starting at 6PM at Club Cafe in Boston
Sunday Seaport Takeover is hosted by Boston Pride on Sunday from 12-4PM at Scorpion Bar 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 w/ Mayhem Miller from RPDR at Candibar in the Theater District on 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.
Happy Easter from Seth and me
Happy Easter from Seth and me.
BosGuy 
