Oct 24th from 6pm – 12:30am at Hawthorne Hotel
Redd’s Wicked Ale Presents: #ScreamOutLoud, A search for Salem’s next official scream queen on Friday, October 24th in Salem.
Join 13 of our most boo-tiful stage personalities as part of a live, interactive experience at the historic Hawthorne Hotel.
My buddy, Gay Jim (KISS108) your host DJ is joined by special guest Sharon Needles (RuPaul’s Drag Race, Salem Scream Queen 2013) and a panel of judges to help find the 2014 Official Scream Queen.
Perhaps a cup of coffee might help wake you up? If not perhaps a photo of a shirtless, handsome young guy might suffice? Just trying to chase away those Monday blues. Have a good one.
This weekend the largest U.S. gay-rights organization, HRC, endorsed efforts to promote the use of Truvada, a once-a-day pill to prevent HIV infection. They are now calling on insurers to provide more generous coverage of the drug.
Truvada’s preventive use has been endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and many HIV/AIDS advocacy groups, but America’s puritanical tendencies alongside valid concerns that the drug might promote risky sexual behavior that won’t protect against other STDs has led to some doctors being reluctant to prescribe Truvada.
I welcome the HRC’s efforts in this area and hope their new policy paper which strongly supports the preventive use of Truvada and encourages health insurers to provide better insurance coverage will help increase awareness of the drug and make it more accessible to all.
You can read more about this here: Is PrEP Right for Me?
The Boston Book Festival takes place next weekend October 23 – 25 in Copley Square and through out much of the Back Bay. I believe this marks the 6th annual book festival which has grown significantly and last year attracted more than 25,000 people.
The weekend event combines a street festival with an array of authors and other literary presenters from here and around the world. Daytime events at the Boston Book Festival are free and there are some lectures and other evening events that are offered for a modest fee. If you’ve never attended this free, public event in Boston, I’d encourage you to check it out. More information about this year’s Boston Book Festival may be found on their website, www.bostonbookfest.org.
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This is exactly how I like to wake up on a Sunday morning ‘cept genetics have played a cruel joke on me so I’m minus the scruff.
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It is laundry day here at chez BosGuy so this seems appropriate.
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.
Have a great Friday evening and enjoy this week’s bonus fur post.
The City of Lights has been given a gigantic butt plug Christmas Tree by contemporary American artist, Paul McCarthy. Erected outside Place Vendôme, it is the centerpiece of the International Contemporary Art Fair.
I suppose Paris should consider themselves fortunate. Check out McCarthy’s installation in Hong Kong here.
This year’s Orthodox Calendar is decidedly more provocative. How do I know this? The calendar that features barely clad men with chiseled bodies arrived at my house while I was away on business.
OC maintains that their unconventional and bold images are used to counteract the negative influences of most of the Orthodox Church leadership and challenge notions of sexuality. You can learn more about this group and purchase the 2015 calendar here.
Much thanks for the 2015 O.C. calendar!
SANTANDER BANK HOSTS “PAINT-BY-GOYA” EVENT IN COPLEY SQUARE
Oct. 18th and Oct 19th from 11am – 3pm in Copley Square
Attention art lovers. James Weinberg, a local artist, has been commissioned to replicate Goya’s painting “The Parasol” on a gigantic 8′ x 12′ canvas and you are invited to help contribute to this signature piece by following a numerical color key and adding corresponding colors to this piece of community art.
The community “Paint-By-Goya” mural is inspired by the 170 paintings, prints, and drawings of Goya’s work that are included in the exhibition “Goya: Order and Disorder” on view at the MFA now through January 19, 2015.
Boston Esplanade, October 2014
One of my favorite poems is by Robert Frost. Each autumn I post his poem, Nothing gold can stay. It is obvious that Frost was inspired by the fall foliage in New England when he wrote this poem back in 1923. I hope you enjoy the poem as much as I do.
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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