To Cook is To Love: A Foodies Journal
By: John Verlinden Summertime – Gentlepeople, start your grills! Memorial Day has come and gone; it’s officially summer and there’s no time to lose. She…
2011
To Cook is To Love: A Foodies Journal
Summertime and the Eating is Easy … Or, not! Ripe tomatoes just off the vine, yummy cold soups, tasty salads, delicious grilled beasts! Best of…
Creep of the Week: Stacey Campfield
Stacey Campfield sponsors bill to ban sex-ed teachers from discussing homosexuality in elementary and middle school Ah, yes. The joys of sex education. I think…
Ewan McGregor: ‘I Learned a Lot’
By: Chris Azzopardi Ewan McGregor didn’t mean to offend you. As the debonair actor sits down in Los Angeles to talk up his latest film Beginners,…
Hear Me Out Music Reviews: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew Morrison, Kylie Minogue & Sade
By: Chris Azzopardi Jennifer Lopez, Love? On her first album in four years, J.Lo isn’t waiting for tonight – it’s already here. There’s debaucherous drinking and…
Queeries: Bridal Gowns, Pronouns, Sperm donor dads?
Must two brides dress like twins? Q: My fiancée and I are planning our wedding, which is going to be very “traditional” in many ways….
Queer Insurgency hopes to fill in the blanks at Noho Pride
By: Tynan Power/TRT Reporter- On May 7th, more than 70 contingents are expected to march into history as part of Northampton’s 30th Annual Pride Parade and…
Three Decades of Pride in Northampton
By: Tynan Power/TRT Reporter More than 18,000 people in over a hundred contingents marched down Northampton’s Main St. to mark the city’s 30th annual LGBT…
Queer Questions Straight Talk, an inside look
By: Abby Dees There is nothing I like better than a 1000-page academic treatise that explains our LGBT-ness in the most multisyllabic and unfunny way…
Tornadoes kill at least four, injure dozens, leave path of destruction in Springfield, Mass., Gov. Patrick, Sen. Kerry travel to Springfield to get dame reports
By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter SPRINGFIELD, MA—Four people are dead, dozens suffered injuries and the structural damage to downtown Springfield is under way, according to police…
The OutField: GLSEN Sports Project changing the game for good
By: Dan Woog* Over the past two decades, LGBT educational issues surged into the headlines. Library books, curricula, protection for gay students – all…
We R Who We R: … and Proud of it!
By: Skip Shefield/TRT Special 2011 was a pride-filled year. Most notably, it was the year that closed the book on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Also,…
Deep Inside Hollywood: The Real L Word gets real young
Glee’s Colfer adds Disney Channel to friends list Chris Colfer is no dummy. Clearly, he already knows – just from observing the gay actors that…
5th Annual Western Mass Youth Pride Prom
By: Rafael Giza/Special for TRT– HOLYOKE, MA – The 5th Annual Celebration of any event or organization is an important milestone. This year the 5th…
Matthew Morrison: As Gay As He Gets
By: Chris Azzopardi/TRT Special Glee actor talks queer career, Elton duet and sex in public Matthew Morrison doesn’t mind being the gayest straight man you know….
Sex and the Seedy: Kim Cattrall on her very un-Samantha role & her love of gay men
By: Chris Azzopdardi There’s not much city in Meet Monica Velour, but there’s sex – and a trailer park and a very haggard-looking Kim Cattrall. The Sex…
Stevie Nicks: A Fairy Tale
By: Chris Azzopardi- Rock legend on gays getting her, Glee controversy and first solo album in a decade Ten years have passed since Stevie Nicks released her…
To Cook is To Love: A Foodies Journal
By: John Verlinden Spring Cleaning: Getting your food house in order In with the new, out with the old: we wade into overstuffed closets, review…
The pros and cons of plastic surgery
By: Lorelei Erisis*/TRT Columnist- Lorelei, Can I ask you about plastic surgery? I’m thinking about getting some work done and I have issues with surgically…
Creep of the Week: Let’s look at Teonna Monae Brown & the McDonald’s incident
By: D’Anne Witkowski There are plenty of reasons why Chrissy Lee Polis, a 22-year-old transgender woman should have thought twice about going to McDonald’s on…
Queeries: Sexting is the official ‘unsafe sex’ of the century
By: Steven Petrow* “My boyfriend wants me to sext him” Q: Many of my friends are sending naked pictures of themselves to their boyfriends, and…
The OutField: Kobe Bryant and the f-word
By: Dan Woog* I’m pretty sure Bennie Adams is straight. So what’s the big deal with Kobe Bryant calling him a “f$#@&%g fa&&ot” during a…
Forward March: ‘A Marine Story’ dissects the damage caused by DADT
Director Ned Farr and actress Dreya Weber discuss their new film now on DVD You wouldn’t know it by her powerful portrayal of a closeted…