Log Cabin and Stonewall spar over election at Harvard debate
The closest any of the presidential debates have come to discussing LGBT issues has been a brief discussion of same-sex marriage during the vice presidential debate, and even then Joe Biden and Sarah Palin both seemed eager to change the subject as quickly as possible. But gay issues were front and center at Harvard University the evening of Oct. 14, when Stonewall Democrats Executive Director Jon Hoadley and Log Cabin Republicans President Patrick Sammon visited the campus to debate each other and make the case for why Obama or McCain respectively is the best choice for LGBT voters.
Sara Orozco runs a spirited, uphill race against anti-gay incumbent
Last January openly gay Needham resident Sara Orozco, a psychologist with no political experience, decided to challenge state Sen. Scott Brown (R-Wrentham), an incumbent who bested a Democratic challenger in two prior elections.
MassEquality urges governor to spare LGBT programs from budget axe
As Gov. Deval Patrick prepares to make emergency budget cuts later this week due to falling state revenues, MassEquality last week urged him to spare funds for programs that serve the LGBT community.
Come out, come out where ever - and whatever - you are
October 11 was National Coming Out Day. In honor of the big "Yep, I'm gay," holiday, Bay Windows reached out to some folks in the LGBT community for their thoughts and advice on doing the deed.
Milwaukee's Best
Don't worry, Boston theatergoers. While it's never polite to chatter in the audience, there's at least one faux pas that playwright/director Wesley Savick is sure to overlook: the famous Boston accent.
Master of the House
With the summer season but a fond, distant memory, many of New England's favorite gay getaways are shuttering up for the off-season. But the curtain is still up at The Ogunquit Playhouse, where <slug>Les Mis?rables</slug> plays through Oct. 12.
Army report on Durkin's death reveals suicide motives
A copy of the Army investigation report on the death of Army National Guard Corporal Ciara Durkin reveals a host of evidence substantiating the Army's conclusion earlier this year that Durkin, a Quincy resident and an active member of Boston's LGBT community, committed suicide at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan last September.
MASALA Mela gets political
Originally this year's Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association (MASALA) Mela, an annual party celebrating the local South Asian LGBT community, was conceived as purely a night of dancing, socializing, performances and tasty food, as it has been in the previous four years that the event has been held at Machine nightclub. But Amit Dixit, a MASALA steering committee member, said in the past few weeks the committee decided that this year's event would be more overtly political.
MassResistance petitioners spotted at Burlington Mall
MassResistance, the anti-gay group based out of Waltham, has until Oct. 15 to collect 33,297 signatures to try to overturn the legislature's repeal of the 1913 law, but in the months since they have begun collecting signatures <i>Bay Windows</i> had received no reports of sightings of petition gatherers out collecting signatures until this week, when a tip was received from a Quincy man who said he encountered three people gathering signatures for the 1913 law petition at the Burlington Mall in Burlington the afternoon of Oct. 4.
Startling images
Ten years ago Matthew Shepard's murder caught the attention of the mainstream media and the public in a way that no anti-LGBT hate crime had done before or since, but it also accomplished another feat: it touched a chord in pop culture and the arts and led to a wave of plays, films, songs, poems, and other creative works, many aimed at mainstream audiences, that depicted his death and grappled with what it meant for American society.
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