Walt Whitman pictured with his younger lover and muse, Peter Doyle circa 1869
Keeping with the theme of prominent gay men from years past (last week I had a photo of Oscar Wilde and his lover), this week is a photo of Walt Whitman – one of America’s most celebrated poets and his muse and younger lover (he had a penchant for younger men), Peter Doyle.
Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims is returning to Provincetown during Bear Week for his 2nd annual “Bears and Beer” bust, on Tuesday, July 12, at the beautiful Sage Inn and Lounge from 2 pm to 4 pm.
This will be a fun and casual opportunity for you to welcome and meet Brian back to Provincetown and to help support his re-election. Previous events have sold out so if you are planning to be in Ptown for Bear Week and you like Brian (and let’s face it – who doesn’t?) then RSVP before the event fills up.
I like to think of my blog as an important, educational site that can help you expand your vocabulary. In honor of the circuit party, that officially starts in Provincetown tomorrow, today’s vocabulary word is twink.
Twink (twingk /adjective)
Definition: A typically younger, thinner, gay man with little or no body hair.
Example: Twinks love Sergio.
Each Wednesday morning I post a photograph and ask readers to offer a funny caption. This week’s photo comes from a past post from my friend’s Tumblr site, Giants, Football, Rugby and Life. Hopefully the caption below inspires you to share a few of your own.
Bottoms Up
The East Coast debut Judy Garland herself (by impersonator Peter Mac) takes you on a musical journey through her life from her days in Vaudeville, to her illustrious film career at MGM, and her legendary concert comebacks in the 50’s and 60’s as well as her CBS television series. GET HAPPY! Is a theatrical experience featuring all of Garland’s standards but your chance to see this show closes later this week with the last performance on Saturday, July 2nd.
If you think dining in Boston is getting more expensive you would be correct based on the findings of a recent survey published by Alignable Main Street Insights that was based on research done by First Data.
According to the findings, Boston ranks as the most expensive city in the United States with the average meal price of $44.02. That price point also made Boston the city with the highest weekly revenue transactions for restaurants, despite only ranking only 5th in the number of average weekly transactions. 
For all of you who want to read more about the survey findings, which ranked and compared the 25 biggest cities in America, click here.
Since the shooting in Orlando many have taken to Twitter with the hashtag #MyFirstGayBar. The tragedy in Orlando underscores a conversation that the gay community has been having with itself for nearly a decade about the relevance or need for “community” and in particular the role of gay bars as one of the foundations of the gay community.
Boston watched their LGBT bookstores close one by one, followed by many popular gay bars in the early 2000s as the traditional enclave – the South End – saw more men leaving and more heterosexual couples moving in. In light of the Orlando shooting, which in my mind was both an act of terrorism and a hate crime, it reminds me how important it is to retain businesses that are here first and foremost to serve the local LGBT community.
#MyFirstGayBar was Neighbours Nightclub in Seattle. What was yours?
Before you head out for the long holiday weekend to celebrate July 4th, I wanted to let you know that Boston’s Gay Men’s Book Club will be meeting in a few weeks on Monday, July 18th at the Trident Booksellers and Cafe to discuss The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle. If you are looking for some funny reading over the holiday, check out this month’s book by Federle.
About the Book: Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before—before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and before the car accident that changed everything.
Enter: Geoff, Quinn’s best friend who drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy— a hot guy—and falls, hard. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending—if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story.
You may purchase the book online but go out and support an independent bookseller, read the book and RSVP to join the group next month.
Best Pecs party at A-House in Provincetown on Friday, July 1 ($100 cash prize)
What to do this week: June 27th – July 3rd
I Love the 90s Tea Dance starts at 4PM at the Boatslip on Monday, June 27 in Ptown
Broadway Gives Back features cast from the OGT Playhouse cast of Anything Goes starts at 8PM at Mainestreet on Monday, June 27 in Ogunquit
Geek Trivia is guaranteed fun and has lots of prizes (trivia starts at 8pm) hosted every Tuesday at Club Cafe in Boston
Karaoke Night starts at 10PM every Tuesday at Jacques in Boston
November Project: Stair workout at Harvard takes place at the Harvard Stadium from 6:30-7:30 AM every Wednesday in Boston
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off showing at Fenway Park at dusk is on Wednesday June 29 in Boston
TransCEND’s Movie Night starts at 7PM at AIDS Action’s office in JP on Thursday, June 30 in Boston
Black-Out Underwear Party kicks off the Independence Week parties at the Crown & Anchor on Thursday, June 30 in Ptown
Burst with DJ Gustavo Scorpio starts the weekend at the Crown & Anchor on Friday, July 1 in Ptown
Best Pecs Party at the A-House will see the winner walking away with $100 on Friday, July 1 in Ptown
Therapy GLOW party 18+ from 11:55PM to 5:00 AM starting on Friday, July 1 in Providence
H2O Pool Party will cool things off for you during Independence Week at the Crown & Anchor on Saturday, July 2 in Ptown
Illuminata with DJ Thiago Oliveira starts at 9:30 PM at The Crown & Anchor on Saturday, July 2 in Ptown
South End Open Market and SOWA Open Market return separately in the South End every Sunday from 10am – 4pm in Boston
Back 2 Basics Tea Dance never has a cover and always has great music from 70s 80s & 90s, starting at 5PM no cover every Sunday at Club Cafe in Boston
Independence Day Warm Up Concert is a great way to enjoy 4th of July celebrations a day earlier at the Hatch Shell 8:30 – 10:00 PM on Sunday, July 3 in Boston
Ritual is The Crown & Anchor’s leather fetish party during Independence Week on Sunday, July 3 in Ptown
Send me information about your upcoming programs and events in my blog’s comment section or message me the details on Facebook.
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A reader shared that Rep. Bachmann never said the quote attributed to her above which on the one hand makes me feel much better and on the other makes me think – she strikes me as such an idiot that the quote seemed believable.
I try to keep my political ramblings to a minimum on this blog but this quote, if true, really bothers me. I may not like the Republican Party but there are a lot of intelligent people who I can have intelligent discourse with over policy and social issues who are Republicans, but they seem to be fewer and fewer each year.
Starting in the 2000 Republican Primary Presidential campaign, it seems like there was a move by some candidates to depict themselves as your average Joe. Since then, it seems like the Republican Party has increasingly embrace candidates who sound stupid. Why is there such an aversion to education and sounding intelligent? I can appreciate nobody likes a snob but the village idiot isn’t exactly a role model and that seems to be far more common these days.
dbar tea dance today 4-8 pm
Set your phasers to stunning, because dbar’s first tea dance of 2016 will be Out of This World! Think sexy astronauts, naughty aliens, and disco planets—all species are welcome to teleport in for beverages and beats by DJ Stevie Psyclone.
The party is hosted by DotOut, Dorchester’s LGBTQ neighborhood association with all proceeds will benefit local charities. Beam me up, hottie!
More information about today’s tea dance at dbar, here.
Did you happen to see the Free Friday Flicks showing of Minions yesterday? It looks like one of these guys is now taking up permanent residence on the second floor of this South End apartment / office on Tremont Street.
“I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.” – Napolean Bonaparte
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