Each Wednesday morning I post a photograph and ask readers to offer a funny caption. Hopefully the caption below inspires you to share a few of your own.
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Last month I first wrote about this important new study at Fenway Health. I wanted to share this once again because I think it is important for the LGBT community to participate in studies specific to our health and I hope by sharing this you may consider participating or will share this with friends who might.
You may be eligible if: HIV-uninfected, gay/bi male, 18+, planning to take a vacation in the next few months, and have had unprotected anal sex in the last year. Interested? Participants are compensated $100 over the course of the study and receive PrEP for the duration of their vacation. For more information and to see if you are eligible please call 617.927.6384 or email vacation@fenwayhealth.org.
Come out and attend one of these Boston Pride events tonight. Later this evening Pridelights will take place on the Plaza at the BCA Plaza on Tremont Street and later in the evening dbar will be hosting a very special Pride edition of Show Tunes Tuesday.
If there are other Pride related events (they need not be part of the official Boston Pride programming), please share them in the comments section of this post. Also let the organizers know, I’d like to know more about future programming and I can be reached at bosguymail@gmail.com.
Donovan Livingston, a master’s candidate at Harvard University, was selected to speak at the school’s convocation this past Wednesday. After he performed his poem titled “Lift Off,” Donovan Livingston’s speech went viral. It is one of the most inspiring poems I’ve ever heard and wanted to share with you.
“Our stories are the ladders that make it easier to touch the stars…The sky is not the limit it is only the beginning.”
Start Boston Pride Week off right by changing up your routine and going to a local Pride Party or event. Tonight Club Cafe hosts Pride Bingo with Mizery and Machine is hosting ALL Stars Monday (open theme this week).
If there are other Pride related events (they need not be part of the official Boston Pride programming), please share them in the comments section of this post. Also let the organizers know, I’d like to know more about future programming and I can be reached at bosguymail@gmail.com.
What to do this week – Boston Pride edition: June 6 – 12
Pride Bingo hosted by Mizery at Club Cafe from 7PM – 1AM (no cover) on Monday, June 6 in Boston
All Star Mondays at Machine this week – doors open at 10PM on Monday June 6 in Boston
Pride Lights is back on the Plaza at the BCA on Tremont Street in the South End from 6:30 – 8:30PM on Tuesday, June 7 in Boston
Showtune Tuesday Pride Edition is at dbar starting at 9PM on Tuesday, June 7 in Dorchester
Latino Boston Pride Party is at Venu and starts at 10PM on Wednesday, June 8 in Boston
DJ Barry Harris is at Club Cafe from 10PM – 2AM (no cover) on Wednesday, June 8 in Boston
DON’T MISS: Heels for Hope on June 8 from 7-10PM at Cathedral Station
Heels for Hope starts at 7PM at Cathedral Station and all proceeds raised go to BAGLY on Wednesday, June 8 in Boston
Bob The Drag Queen will be at Machine on Thursday, June 9 in Boston
Bears Bare it All is hosted by the Imperial Court of MA at Paradise on Thursday, June 9 in Cambridge
Secret Place Pride Party at the Icon Nightclub on Friday, June 10 in Boston
7th Annual PRIDE Stop Light Party at dbar starts at 10PM on Friday, June 10 in Dorchester
The Bitch is Back Female impersonator, Joe Posa returns as Joan Rivers at Club Cafe for one show on Friday, June 10 in Boston
Boston Pride Parade starts at 12PM on Saturday, June 11 in Boston
DON’T MISS: Chandler Street Block Party, June 11 from 1:30 – 7:00PM
Chandler Street Block Party runs from 1:30PM – 7PM with all proceeds benefiting AIDS Action Committee on Saturday, June 11 in Boston
Boston Pride Festival and Concert is from 12PM – 7PM at City Hall Plaza on Saturday, June 11 in Boston
Epic Saturday with DJ Renato Cecin at the House of Blues on Saturday, June 11 will be the biggest Pride party (but it will sell out) in Boston
Pride Night Party at The Alley on Saturday, June 11 in Boston
JP Block Party is from 2PM – 8PM on Sunday, June 12 in Jamaica Plain
DON’T MISS: Back Bay Block Party, June 12 from 1:00 – 8:00PM
Back Bay Block Party runs from 1PM – 8PM on St. James Avenue and Berkeley Street on Sunday, June 12 in Boston
Unity Pride Envy Annual Boat Party is from 7:30 – 11:30PM on Sunday, June 12 in Boston
Pride Finale with DJ Escape from 1oPM – 2AM at Royale in Boston
Pardon me while I use this post to brag. Last month Forbes Magazine published a report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, which shared their analysis of 25 cities’ competitiveness to identify which American cities are most ready for the digital revolution they expect will transform every industry, from robotics to healthcare in the coming years.
According to their findings the odds on favorite, San Francisco, has become “too cutthroat to inspire success.” Boston was identified as the U.S. city best placed to capitalize on the shift to a digital economy. A worsening quality of life pushed tech-centered San Francisco Bay Area into second place.
The analysis, “Innovation That Matters 2016,” ranked cities in six categories: talent; capital; industry specialization; culture, such as quality of life and regulation; and ties among entrepreneurs, universities, corporations, governments and others.
Curious to see where your city ranked? You can read the full article in Forbes here or you can read The Chambers report here.
My weekly Vintage Gay post, which I publish each Thursday around 8:15 AM is one of my more popular reoccurring posts. I dedicate those posts to the men and women who lived in a more critical time where being true to themselves and loving who they wanted wasn’t always an option and came at a great price.
Blogger Oscar Raymundo has a new post on his blog Confessions of a Boy Toy that you will enjoy reading if you like my weekly Vintage Gay post, Vintage Home Movies Depict Intimate Gay Moments from Our Past Lives. These home movies from Harold O’Neal depict scenes from the 1940s and 1950s, which you can watch from Raymundo’s blog by clicking on the link shared.
This is bit more contrived than most of my photos for this series, but like Samantha Fox sang in the 1980s, “I need it, want it – got to flaunt it“.
I know that for many of you this video has been showing up on your news feed on Facebook, but I love this cheeky P.S.A. “A Bathroom Break” from Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein with the cast of Kinky Boots.
Here’s to hoping that we can put this foolish discussion behind us. I like to point out there have been more Republican politicians arrested for predatory behavior in bathrooms than the entire transgender community. So to paraphrase one of my favorite lines from Joan Rivers “Oh, Grow Up”.
Present day view of the skyline from Boston Harbor
The amount of development taking place in Boston is impressive but Curbed Boston helped put the crazy development we see in the Seaport in perspective in their post Five Big Post WWII Changes That Shaped Modern Boston
In the late 1950s Boston’s entire West End neighborhood was razed
The most dramatic and possibly unwelcome change was the city’s wholesale demolition of the West End and the displacement of thousands of residents, all in the name of urban renewal. This alone offers insight how and why neighborhood groups became so vocal and powerful in Boston. The image on the left shows a crowded neighborhood made up of multifamily brick buildings and the image to the right shows open space which in the years that followed came to be populated by mostly ugly and uninspiring concrete structures.
Boston’s “High Spine” in the Back Bay
Other developments of note included the High Spine which started in the 1960s with the building of the Prudential in the Back Bay and continues to be developed today. Also noted was the decline of the Combat Zone (Boston’s Red Light District) sandwiched between Boston’s Theater District, Downtown Crossing and Chinatown, which is now home to some of Boston’s largest high end residences, including the posh Ritz Carlton residences. The article closes referencing both the Big Dig and the flurry of development which continues now as the city’s newest neighborhood, The Seaport, takes shape.
You can read the full article here.
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