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OUT Magazine has a nice spread on next week’s Broadway Bares, an annual fundraiser that includes some of Broadway’s most talented and beautiful entertainers to come together and raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The article looks back at some of the great images captured by usty St. Amand, Jenny Anderson, Andrew Eccles, Kevin Thomas Garcia, Ryan Mueller, Paul Reitz, Daniel Roberts, Jonathan Tichier, Rob Sutton, Tom Viola, Tomas Vrzalax, and Peter. You can read the article here.

For more information about this year’s 25th Broadway Bares, to donate and for information about tickets visit their NSFW website, broadwaybares.com.

Thanks to BosGuy reader, Paul G. for sending me OUT Magazine’s article.

Last week Lonely Planet published their Guide to Pride in 20 cities around the world.  You can download a free copy on iBooks: http://itunes.com/prideguide.

Lonely Planet’s global community of travel experts offer their top local picks for each city’s Pride celebration, as well as must-see sights, local experiences and the best gay-friendly places to eat, drink and sleep. This year’s guide covers 20 Pride events around the world, from Amsterdam to NYC to São Paulo.

With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to rule on the future of same-sex marriage in the US in the coming weeks, The Boston Herald published an interesting article from the AP which suggested the justices should consider the MA experience where marriage equality first arrived in the US back in 2004.

Between 2004 and 2013 more than 25,o00 gay couples married in MA, according to a review of state records; accounting for approximately 7% of all marriages in the state. Marriage is more popular with lesbian couples (16,000 weddings) than gay couples (9,900 weddings).   And despite predictions that “gay marriage” would destroy the institution of marriage, Massachusetts has maintained a divorce rate of 2.7%; one of the lowest rates of any state in the country.

You can read the full article from the Associated Press in the Boston Herald here.

SCRUFF recently released the results of an in-app survey that included more than 70,000 of their users.  The informal survey inquired if they planned on attending any gay pride celebrations in their home city this year.  Although Boston is often criticized about its Pride Week festivities, 60% of those who took the survey indicated they would be attending at least one official Pride event here.

You can see how survey respondents answered in the UK, South America and Asia by visiting SCRUFF’s blog post SCRUFFtistics: Gay Pride Worldwide.

Will you be attending any Boston Pride events this week or if Boston isn’t your home, will you be attending any local Pride events wherever you might live? Curious to hear from you and your reasons for participating or skipping local pride events this year.

One week from today is PrideLights.  Last year GBBC took over this program traditionally hosted the Tuesday of Pride Week in Boston – even though the event is not an “official” Boston Pride event.

This year’s program includes more than entertainment in the Plaza.  If you’d like to help support the GBBC you can purchase tickets here.  The outdoor tree lighting will take place at dusk.

The summer is off to a sizzling start and even if the weather has turned cooler today, later this weekend things will get sizzling hot at the Manhunt Mansion this Saturday when they host their first pool party of the season.  Proceeds raised will go to Boston Blizzard.