I want to thank my friend and fellow blogger Brenton from Aussielicious for sharing a Buzzfeed post from February, 19 Guys in Kilts Who Just Want You To Know They Are Here If You Need Anything. I’ve included one of my favorite photos from the article in this week’s post.
Fenway Health Men’s Event is Saturday, March 11, 2017
What to do this week: March 6th – 12th
Men’s Mary Monday Mandarin Meetup is a social group for gay men who will get together at 6:30PM at Mary Chung Restaurant in Cambridge
Boston Gay Men’s Book Club meets to discuss Sphinx – Garréta on Monday, March 6 starting at 7PM at the Trident Bookseller’s Cafe in Boston
Drag Bingo is every Monday starting at 7PM free to play at Club Cafe in Boston
Beantown Soft-Tip Dart league spring season is Monday, March 6 at Cathedral Station in Boston
Awesome cheap eats option if you can get a seat. Every Tuesday starting at 5PM
Taco Tuesday is a fun way to socialize and eat on the cheap in the South End; first come, first serve – hosted every Tuesday at Tremont 647 in Boston
Karaoke Night starts at 10PM every Tuesday at Jacques in Boston
Showtune Tuesday hosted by VJ Ryan Grow starts at 9PM every Tuesday at dbar in Dorchester
Geek Trivia is guaranteed fun and has lots of prizes (trivia starts at 8PM) hosted every Tuesday at Club Cafe in Boston
November Project: Stair workout at Harvard takes place at the Harvard Stadium from 6:30-7:30AM every Wednesday in Boston
Sting comes to Boston for one show only this week on March 8th
Sting is performing at The House of Blues on Wednesday, March 8 in Boston
BAGLY Development Social is a free social that will take place at the Milky Way Lounge starting at 7PM on Thursday, March 9 in Jamaica Plain
Karaoke Thursdays is every Thursday at Machine with 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
Turnt! Thursday is hosted every Thursday starting at 10PM at Peggy O’Neil’s in Dorchester
Friday, March 10 is opening night for Topdog / Underdog directed by Billy Porter
Topdog/Underdog directed by Billy Porter has its opening night at the Huntington Theater on Friday, March 10 in Boston
Queer Inclusive Climbing Klub (QuICK) Pizza night and climbing club at Brooklyn Boulders every Friday starting at 6PM in Somerville
Billiards Tournament is hosted each Friday starting at 7PM at Mainestreet in Ogunquit
Controversy is a LGBT Hip-Hop & Reggae party starting at 10PM upstairs at Machine with DJs Begbick in Boston
FUZZ is a monthly gay dance party with DJ Brent Covington and DJ Taffy at Pi Alley in DTX on Friday, March 10 in Boston
Come to 6B Lounge dressed as your favorite Clueless hero (you may win a prize)
A Very Clueless 90s plays your favorite 90s music: come dressed as your favorite Clueless hero (you may win a prize) Friday, March 10 at 6B Lounge in Boston
Twerk Fridays at is an 18+ night at Ego in Providence
The Coolidge After Midnight: Shogun Assassin shows at The Coolidge Theater starting at 11:59PM on Friday, March 10 in Brookline
Jocktion 2017 is party hosted by Mr New England Leather to benefit AIDS Care Ocean State at the Providence Eagle Saturday, March 11 in Providence
Fenway Health Men’s Event will gather 1,300+ gay men and their allies for one of Boston’s largest LGBTQ fundraisers on Saturday, March 11 in Boston
The biggest gay dance party in Boston is across the river in Cambridge at Paradise
Saga Saturdays Boston’s biggest gay dance party on Saturday, March 11 is at Paradise in Cambridge
So Hot Saturdaes is Boston’s no-attitude gay dance party hosted every Saturday at Peggy O’Neil’s in Dorchester
UNITE Saturdays is the weekly dance party at Club Cafe with DJ Susan Esthera in Boston
The Coolidge After Midnight: Lady Snowblood 2 shows at The Coolidge starting at 11:59PM on Saturday, February 11 in Brookline
Boston Touch, Tantra, Massage & Intimacy for Men workshop requires registering to attend the Sunday, March 12 session in Watertown
Great music starts at 5PM for Boston’s weekly Tea Dance
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
Shambhala LGBT Meditation Group is every Sunday from 7-9PM in Brookline
Pajama Party is a weekly dance party hosted every Sunday starting at 10PM at Machine in Boston
Drag Race’s Charlie Hides comes to Candi Bar on Sunday, March 12 in Boston
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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This past week the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) approved two more real estate projects in the South End’s SoWa district that combined will result in bringing more than 970 new residential units to Harrison Ave.
The first and larger development is The Harrison Albany Block, (shown above from Albany Street), it will include 650 residential units and span from Harrison Avenue to Albany Street between East Canton and East Dedham streets.
Aerial view of The Harrison Albany block
The large development will include three levels of below grade parking garage, 29,000 square feet of publicly accessible open space and 65 affordable units (with some designated specifically for working artists). In addition, the developers will pay into a BPDA fund to purchase or subsidize another 65 units someplace else. Originally proposed as a 710 unit development back in the fall of 2015 modest reductions were made in response to neighborhood concerns.
370-380 Harrison Avenue
The second residential complex approved by the BPDA this past week is for the 370-380 Harrison project, which will include 92 condos and 232 apartments that will be built on the site of the former Quinzani Bakery and Ho Kong Bean Sprout Co. next to the Ink Block. The developer has committed to ensuring at least 20% of the units will be marketed as affordable.
Similar to the Harrison Albany Block, the 370-380 Harrison Ave. project has scaled back slightly from the original proposal shared last March, which initially proposed 280 residential units. It is unclear if their original proposal of including 180 parking spaces and commercial space were changed.
I was talking to my brother last week and we both agreed that one good thing that has resulted from a Trump presidency is a political activism that neither of us have seen or felt before. A great example of this is Grab Your Wallet, which got a nice shout out from last week’s Sunday New York Times.
Grab Your Wallet has organized like-minded individuals to reach out to specific contacts at key retailers where the Trump brand is sold. Last month Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus removed Ivanka Trump’s name from their websites and employees at T.J. Maxx and Marshalls were instructed not to display her products and remove signage with her name on it. Grab Your Wallet was not cited by these retailers by name when they indicated sales had dropped, but it is hard to imagine all those letters and calls didn’t rattle retailers.
Grab Your Wallet website now includes a list of places to consider boycotting as well as a short script if you want to voice your concerns. With as many as 32,000 people visiting the website an hour, Grab Your Wallet is one of many grassroots organizations affecting change and it has the attention of the White House as Kellyanne Conway proved when she tried to prop up Ivanka’s brand by illegally hawking Ivanka Trump’s products after it was dropped by Nordstrom.
If you’d like to see what organizations are recommended to boycott and get personal email addresses or phone numbers of key contacts at those organizations to let your voice be heard, visit: grabyourwallet.org
If you’d like to read the full article, which inspired me to write this post visit, The Anti-Trump Activist Taking on Trump.
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UPDATE: I would encourage everyone to reach out to retailers, because they are taking note (see my correspondence with LL Bean below). I’m convinced that Donald Trump cares more about his brand than anything else. Boycotting those who do business with the Trump family sends a very direct and personal message to the president.
I think that blue is my new favorite color.
Here is a dash of sexy to add with your morning cup of coffee.
Click on the comic strip to enlarge
ADAM & ANDY is set in the fictional New England town of Woodfield, CT. You can learn more about this strip by visiting, adamandandy.com. To see previous Adam and Andy cartoons link here.
Enjoy the weekend and thanks for stopping by to check out my blog.
It is human nature to be drawn to those we find attractive. Typically attraction will wax or wane as you learn more about an individual.
Since his election to office, I’ve found my interest and attraction in Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has continued to grow. He seems to share many of the values I admired in President Obama and miss in our current president.
For those of you who may also be developing a crush on this Prime Minister to the north, I wanted to share a recent post on Unicorn Booty of some new photos of Trudeau when he was younger – enjoy.
Fasten your seatbelts! Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies and 20th Century Fox will be showing the 1950 classic, All About Eve, around the country for two days only, Sunday, March 5th and Wednesday, March 8th.
WHEN: Sunday, March 5, 2017; 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017; 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Tickets for All About Eve can be purchased online at FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. The following movie theaters in and around Boston will be showing this classic film.
Fenway Stadium 13
Assembly Row 12
Revere Showcase Cinemas
Braintree 10
Legacy Place
Randolph Showcase Cinemas
Burlington 10
For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website.
All About Eve which stars Bette Davis and Anne Baxter also includes a young, aspiring actress who was then-unknown named Marilyn Monroe. If you’ve never seen this film, I encourage you to check it out. I promise you’ll love it. This could make for an excellent date night if you are looking for something different to do.
Recently I wrote about the survey findings from Boston Consulting Group, that showed Massachusetts taking the top spot in their “well being” study. They cited a healthy population that has near universal healthcare insurance, education and an incredibly robust and balanced economy as reasons for the top ranking.
Just two weeks later U.S. News and World Report awarded Massachusetts its top honor, citing the state’s continuing academic achievement, innovative health care system, and strong economy in its ‘Best States’ ranking – sound familiar?
The US News & World report evaluates all fifty states across seven categories: health care, education, opportunity, economy, infrastructure, crime and corrections, and government. Massachusetts ranked No. 1 in education and No. 2 in healthcare, and placed within the top ten for economy and crime and corrections. There are many surveys that evaluate quality of life and economic opportunity. When you start seeing different surveys finding the same thing over and over again it becomes a trend.
Where did your state rank? Check out the listing of all fifty states here.
1955 portrait of Donald Windham (left) with life-partner Sandy Campbell by celebrity gay photographer and writer Carl Van Vechten.
Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell were a well-known couple in New York’s gay literary circles. It was at a chance meeting at Paul Cadmus’ studio that Donald met Sandy, who was modeling for one of Cadmus’ paintings. Windham and Campbell began a 45 year relationship that led to a collaboration as avid book collectors, voracious readers, and friends with many of the most important literary figures of their time. The couple lived together from 1943 until Campbell’s death in 1988. Windham passed away 22 years later in 2010.
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.
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