This Friday, Saturday and Sunday The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus will perform “There’s No Place Like Home: A Wicked Good Cabaret” at Club Café. The weekend shows are 100% fun and a tad risqué so if you haven’t made plans yet, hop online and pick up tickets to check out one of their shows.
Shows are Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 5 and 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets start at $30 (before fees) and are available at bgmc.org.
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.
FROM HIDDEN BOSTON BLOG: According to a Twitter post from restaurant critic and food/drinks writer MC Slim JB, Morse Fish Company in Boston’s South End is up for lease, with a note on Facebook telling us that a “For Lease” sign is indeed in the window of the Washington Street business.
It is not yet known how much longer the market will remain open. Morse Fish Company first opened in 1903, offering fresh seafood.
Local theater companies have some excellent plays and musicals opening over the next few weeks, starting with Lyric Stage Company’s latest production, VIRGINIA WOOLF’S ORLANDO, which opens this Friday.
For those looking for a modern day gay-themed show, be sure to check out the Zeitgeist Stage Company’s new show, STEVE, which is about two longtime partners raising their son with a surrogate.
Boston’s local theater scene continues to enjoy a Renaissance of sorts so take advantage of the talent (and much more affordable prices at these local theater companies). Make a date night with that significant other or encourage a group of friends to start the night by catching a show before heading out for drinks.
Running February 23 – March 25th: Lyric Stage Company’s latest production, VIRGINIA WOOLF’S ORLANDO, is a joyful romance of gender roles. Orlando the man wakes up, after a particularly wild night in 17th-century Constantinople, to find himself a woman! She abandons herself to three centuries of navigating love, desire, and the world from an entirely different perspective.
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE.
Running March 1 – April 1st: The Central Square Theater next production, GUARDS AT THE TAJ is set in India in 1648. For two Imperial guards who are protecting the palace, close friends since childhood, dawn’s first light will set in motion a ghoulishly unthinkable task that will challenge their faith, friendship, and duty. The dark comedy examines two average men who get swept up in the beauty, carnage, and zealotry surrounding one of the wonders of the world.
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE.
Running March 2 – 24th: Zeitgeist Stage Company’s new show, STEVE, is about two longtime partners raising their son with a surrogate. The couple are doing their best not to feel confined by their newfound domesticity, but a casual case of sexting sets off a series of questions and recriminations. The play holds up a clear but compassionate mirror to anyone who’s been part of a post-passion long-term relationship and started to question what now?
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Running March 2 – 31st: SpeakEasy Stage Company’s latest production, EVERY BRILLIANT THING, is a one-woman show, that starts with a young girl’s focus on things that make life worth living to try and ease her mother’s depression. As she ages the list grows and she learns the deep significance the list has on her own life, as she goes to college, falls in love, and builds a home.
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Running March 17 – April 8th: NewRep Theatre in Watertown latest production THE BAKELITE MASTERPIECE opens a the end of WWII with artist Han van Meegeren sitting in a prison cell accused of selling a long-lost Vermeer to the Nazis. A crime tantamount to treason, van Meegeren contends that the painting was a forgery, which he skillfully produced and aged with a special treatment of the plastic known as Bakelite. Now he must create another masterpiece in front of his jailer, art historian Geert Piller, to save his life. The Bakelite Masterpiece is a dynamic and compelling Boston-area premiere from playwright Kate Cayley.
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“Sup Bro“
Many people in our community are familiar with Toys for Joys, a charitable organization that hosts a fun party each December to collect gifts that are in turn shared with local charities so children in the area will receive thoughtful gifts during the holiday season.
T4J CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS – MONDAY, MARCH 12
What many (yours truly included) may not have realized is that this year marks the organizations 10th year and the organization is looking to expand their efforts to also help homeless LGBT youth. The group wants to use the platform they’ve created to support this new initiative and they are looking for volunteers willing to lend their time and talent to help.
All are welcome to come and learn more on Monday, March 12 at 6PM at the Revere Hotel in Bay Village. Please help this worthy organization by spreading word about this upcoming meeting and put the date in your calendar. You can learn more about T4J here: facebook.com/T4JBOSTON
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.
Few things are more important than taking care of your health and for that reason I touch upon the topic occasionally. A few years back I wrote the post, Many LGBT patients feel alienated by their health providers. A few years after my post I shared the US News & World Report article, How to Come Out to Your Doctor as an LGBT Patient, which explained why this is important: the type of preventative care you should receive – esp if you are sexually active; questions you may want to ask your doctor; and most importantly for those who are not out to their health care providers – how to start the conversation.
So when I was recently contacted by Lighthouse, a network of LGBTQ affirming health and wellness providers, I knew I’d want to share this. According to the release I received, Lighthouse is a group of NYC-based providers who have devoted our careers to caring for LGBTQ+ patients. They are currently up and running in New York City and are expanding rapidly to serve the LGBTQ+ community nationwide.
For more information you can check out their blog at blog.lighthouse.lgbt or visit their website at www.lighthouse.lgbt.
Well said Lieutenant Sulu.
Wearing a harness + kilt is really good look if you can pull it off. Something for the guys here in Boston to consider if they plan on going to Fascination on Friday or to Snowbound in Provincetown later this weekend.
It may be the middle of winter in Boston but there is a lot happening including Snowbound Leather Weekend XI which takes place in Provincetown this weekend. However, if you plan on staying in town this week be sure to check out some of the following programs this week.
Opus Affair Monthly Cocktail Mixer is always fun and today they will meet after work in Davis Square. On Tuesday join Amplifying Voices: A conversation with leaders of color from 6-8PM the South End, on Wednesday Bi+/Curious Guyz Social Night takes place at Club Cafe on Thursday RuPaul’s Drag Race All Star 3 viewing parties take place at 8PM on at Jacques Cabaret, The Alley Bar and Trophy Room.
Over the weekend be sure to check out Boston’s Gay Men’s Chorus who will perform There’s No Place Like Home: A Wicked Good Cabaret on Friday and Saturday at Club Cafe. On Saturday there are several fun parties including So hot saturdaes: girl groups theme and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Star Wars vs. Star Trek. Close out your weekend by heading over to CC for their Sunday Bear Tea Dance.
Pizza & Game Night is every Monday from 5-9PM (check out their ping pong and foosball tables) at Dorchester Brewery in Dorchester
Feminist & Queer Happy Hour is on Monday at A4cade by Area Four in Central Square from 5:30-8:30PM in Cambridge
Opus Affair Monthly Cocktail Mixer takes place after work on Monday from 6-9PM at Saloon on Elm Street in Davis Square in Somerville
Drag Bingo is every Monday starting at 7PM free to play at Club Cafe in Boston
Amplifying Voices: A conversation with leaders of color is on Tuesday evening from 6-8PM at the BCA in the South End, 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
Bi+/Curious Guyz Social Night is a monthly meet up for bisexual men to meet and socialize on Wednesday from 6-8PM 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 Thursday from 6-9PM at the Panera Bread at Porter Square in Cambridge
Bear Trivia Night is at 8PM every Thursday at The Alley Bar in DTX Boston
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 and Trophy Room in South End
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
#Yaasss Thursdays presents: Sissy That Walk weekly drag competition the last Thursday of each month Showtime: 12:30AM at Club Cafe in Boston
Provincetown’s Winterboud: Mates Leather Weekend
THE WEEKEND
Snowbound Leather Weekend XI kicks off on Friday and runs through the weekend in Provincetown
Queer Inclusive Climbing Klub (QuICK) Pizza night and climbing club at Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville
There’s No Place Like Home: A Wicked Good Cabaret Boston Gay Men’s Chorus will perform their cabaret show on Friday and Saturday at Club Cafe
Versus: It’s Britney B**** takes place at Thunder Road Music Club & Rock n’ Roll Bistro on Friday starting at 9PM in Somerville
Casual Fridays is a weekly dance party with no cover featuring DJ Begbick at the Alley Bar in DTX
Latin Friday is upstairs at Machine every Friday starting at 10PM in Boston
FASCINATION Friday is a monthly gear/ fetish/ kink night at Jacques the 1st and 4th Friday of the month in Boston
Winter SpeakOUT speaker training session runs all day on Saturday from 8:30AM-6PM at Suffolk University
DotOUT goes bowling on Saturday from 4-7PM at Boston Bowl in Dorchester
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Star Wars vs. Star Trek Outfits / costumes welcomed to this fun monthly party at Great Scott in Allston
So hot saturdaes: girl groups theme is at Peggy’s this Saturday starting at 10PM in Dorchester
Grunt is a weekly dance party with no cover for burly men and their admirers, starting at 10PM at the Alley Bar in DTX
18+ 4th Satur-Haze with Laganja from RuPaul’s Drag Race is on Saturday night at Machine in Boston
Sunday Bear 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.
Snowbound Leather Weekend in Provincetown Feb 23-25, 2017
Snowbound Mates Leather Weekend XI in Provincetown is next weekend (February 23-25). The annual winter weekend party is produced by Mates Leather Weekend and Full Kit Gear and this year the weekend includes events at The Watership Inn, The Atlantic House, Bayside Betsy’s, The Crown & Anchor and Gifford House Inn.
All the fun starts on Friday, February 23rd with a Beer Blast at the Watership Inn from 6-8 pm followed by the slightly more frisky if not risqué White Out & C*ck Party at Paramount, starting at 9:30. Parties and events run through out the weekend and you can see the full list of activities by visiting the official website, matesleatherweekend.com/snowbound.
I think I may have previously posted this photo because it looks so familiar but I don’t really care. I love the blase look of the guy taking the selfie while his boyfriend moves in to kiss him on the cheek.
This guy looks like he is in serious need of a second cup of coffee.
BosGuy 
