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Every summer, Provincetown bursts at the seams with live theater and top notch performers—and it can be a little overwhelming to sift through all the options. If time is tight and ticket money at...

Boston Spirit's 'Ricardo Recommends' columnist Ricardo Rodriguez along with Bryan Rafanelli and Ken Oringer demonstrate the art of entertaining in style  Entertaining at home has to be one of the most stressful things for me....

When Michelle Figueiredo revealed her laundry list of New Year’s resolutions to her group of friends in early 2010, they were flabbergasted. And no, it had little to do with the fact that she...

What a difference a day makes. On June 26, 2015 the members of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus were in Istanbul, in the midst of the first-ever tour of the Middle East by a gay...

(Editor’s note: This article appears in the current May/June 2016 print edition of Boston Spirit magazine. Subscribe for free today.) Some call it the High Holy Days for the gays. Others in the LGBT community might...

For the all-volunteer staff of the Boston LGBT Film Festival, watching movies—lots of movies—is a necessity. Voraciously logging in hours in front of films from around the world is how the programmers assure audiences...

Boston Police Department LGBT Liaison Javier Pagan details his experience as a first responder at the Boston Marathon blasts Javier Pagan was just feet from the finish line when he heard the boom. But when...

Local gay and lesbian Islamic faithful are challenging traditional views of homosexuality both here and abroad In the fall of 1997, 19-year-old Faisal Alam entered a Connecticut hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown. He stayed...

Accused of ‘comical’ methodology, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group is taking heat from cities for its new Municipal Equality Index’s (MEI) narrow focus on laws and policy and ‘one size fits all scoring’ If...

Michelle Kosilek is an unlikely advocate for LGBT equality. Convicted for murder and spending time in a designated all-male prison, Kosilek is suing for her right to receive gender reassignment surgery, to allow her physical body to match who she has discovered herself to be: a woman. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts refuses to pay for the medical procedure. Most recently, on January 17, 2014, the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals declared in favor of Kosilek’s surgery, stating, “DOC has violated Kosilek’s Eighth Amendment rights.” The state is appealing the verdict.