All Entries Tagged With: "the rainbow times"
The Rainbow Times, the Terriers and Philanthropy
By: Nicole Lashomb*/TRT Editor-in-Chief– Over the past several months, The Rainbow Times has begun to focus more on its philanthropic work. Thanks to our advertisers, subscribers, readers, and fans, we’ve been able to do so. Since last month, we are now sponsoring The Terriers, a Beantown Softball League team. We were thrilled that this opportunity [...]
To Cook is to Love: Springtime and Cookouts in New England
By: John Verlinden*/TRT Food Columnist– Yay! It’s finally here! What a long, hard winter. I don’t think I’ve ever been more anxious for spring than this year. Perhaps my favorite thing about the warmer weather is the outdoor living we get to enjoy here in New England. It’s hard to imagine a better place to [...]
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Boston, MA Report outlines how religious arguments undermine women and LGBTs A report entitled Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights details how a network of Christian organizations has successfully fought pro-choice and LGBT civil rights legislation by saying that it infringes on religious liberty. The findings state [...]
St. Patrick’s Parade Rejects LGBTs Again; Orgs. Denounce Actions
BOSTON, Mass. — Organizers of the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade that takes place in South Boston rejected an application by MassEquality to participate in Sunday’s parade. In doing so, organizers noted that the parade was full. MassEquality Executive Director Kara Suffredini issued the following statement in response: “Organizers of the annual St. Patrick’s Day [...]
Manifesto: Being Angry, Not Losing Our Temper & Building a World We Want to See
By: Lorelei Erisis/TRT Columnist– First of all, I Love You. All of you. But I’m angry. Angry that there are those who suffer simply for who they are or who they like. Angry that I even need to remind people that I might be angry. Angry that I need to explain myself, my gender, my [...]
Boston’s East Coast Biker Chicks Celebrate 10 Years on the Road
By: Brook Rosini/Special to The Rainbow Times– Ride safe. Ride your own. Ride often. That’s the motto of the East Coast Biker Chicks, ECBC, a women’s motorcycle club founded ten years ago this month by Lucky Belcamino. Established in 2003 as an antidote to what Belcamino and her friends saw as masculine-identified, rigid, militant women’s [...]
Creep of the Week: The Boy Scouts of America
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT – Look, I’m no Boy Scout and I never have been. Like, literally. I’m not a boy, for one. I’m also an “avowed homosexual,” which means the Boy Scouts don’t like me as a matter of official policy. Now, this has not had a huge impact on me personally. As I [...]
Savage Love: Polarizing Media Pundit on ‘Crazy’ Queer People, It Gets Better & Bullying
By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special for TRT– In his two-decade career as a sex-advice columnist, and more recently as creator of the It Gets Better Project, Dan Savage has entertained readers with his frankness and inspired queer kids with his encouragement – even when some people would rather he just go away. Those same people – critics [...]
Queer Sex and Sexuality: Learning and Understanding the History in Public Spaces
By: Jason Lydon*/TRT Columnist– While adorably, if not gratuitously, smooching my boyfriend outside against a business’ wall in the middle of the day, I paused and asked him, “What happened to public gay sex and sexuality in Boston? Public sex is supposed to be one of the fun parts of being gay.” His response illuminated [...]
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Baltimore, MD Marriage equality approved at ballot box in Maryland Maryland voters approved the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which paves the way for gay and lesbian couples to receive a marriage license. This is the first time that any state has voted on and passed marriage equality on the ballot. [...]
Worrisome Rates of HIV Infection Among Youth: Mass. Leaders React
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– The number of new HIV infections the United States remains relatively stable, standing at about 50,000 people annually. But HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is on the rise among younger Americans under the age of 25. In fact, too many youth in the United States continue to become infected with [...]
Obama Appoints Eight Nominees to Federal Bench
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– President Obama Tuesday (November 27) nominated Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro to a federal district court seat in Philadelphia, bringing to eight the number of openly gay people he has nominated for the federal bench. While Judge Quiñones declined to make any comment to a reporter concerning her nomination, the [...]
Four Historic Wins for Marriage Equality
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– PORTLAND — Maine made history on election night as voters approved a ballot measure granting gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Unofficial results, with 92 percent of the vote tallied, showed Question 1 passing by a 53 percent to 47 percent margin. The measure asked voters, “Do you wish [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood: Happy Lesbian, Kylie Minogue, Matt Bomer, Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry
By: Romeo San Vicente*/Special for TRT– Lesbian happy endings coming soon from Carol In 1952, Patricia Highsmith’s romance novel The Price of Salt did an unexpected thing: a stylistic detour for its author (the lesbian mystery author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, Salt was published under a pseudonym), it also allowed for the [...]
Creep of the Week: Anyone Blaming Hurricane Sandy on Gays
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– Gays should have seen it coming, frankly. It was only a matter of time before it happened. I’m not talking about the hurricane itself, but the inevitable parade of idiots claiming that Hurricane Sandy never would have happened if it weren’t for all of those homos in New York taunting [...]
