Spooky Bear returns to haunt Provincetown, Oct. 31–Nov. 3
Hairy but not-so-scary times await at this annual Provincetown gathering spearheaded by the Northeast Ursamen, an organization for the region’s bear community. Spooky Bear 2024 takes place Thursday through Sunday, October 31–November...
New mural in Providence, RI honors historic drag queen, LGBTQ+ culture
A large-scale work of public art — featuring a historic drag queen, a legendary gay costume designer and a pair of cross-dressing dancers from ancient Chinese opera — has been added to...
Provincetown Swim for Life photo archive reaches 1M views, inspires celebration before Sept. 7...
The 37th Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, set for September 7, is pleased to announce its photo archive has reached one million views. To mark this occasion, Frederick Studio Provincetown...
Jess Meyer strikes a balance between fighting and intimacy in ‘Winter’s Tale’ on Boston...
Not every theater artist favors Shakespeare’s “problem plays”—those works generally defined by an ambiguous tone that shifts between comic and tragic. But for Jess Meyer, the fight and intimacy director for Commonwealth...
Provincetown Film Festival (June 12–16) to honor filmmaker Andrew Haigh
For many cinephiles, Andrew Haigh’s latest film “All of Us Strangers” was unjustly overlooked by this year’s Oscars.
Haigh adapted Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel...
New England premiere of ‘Strange Loop’ opens in Boston this weekend
“A Strange Loop,” a musical about a theater usher named Usher—a Black, queer man who is writing a musical about a Black, queer man, ad infini-tum—took Broadway...
Boston’s 40th annual Wicked Queer LGBTQ+ film fest screens April 5-14
Life may begin at 40, but Wicked Queer Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival, has been living large for a long time. Adventurous, eclectic, edgy programming that looks back...
Dear Diary: Intimate journals of Ross Terrill bring queer past to vivid present
Right now, the queer past is soaking up the spotlight. From buzzy Showtime series “Fellow Travelers”—the romantic political pulse-pounder set during the Lavender Scare of the 1950s—to...
Salem Arts Association hosts ‘This Is Trans’ photo exhibit plus events
A groundbreaking exhibition of photographs by the talented transgender, gender-fluid photographer and activist Mx. Vincent-Natasha (NV) Gay is currently on display at the Salem Arts Association, 159 Derby Street, through April 6....
Renovation Husbands reach new heights with HGTV ‘Battle on the Mountain,’ streaming now
In January 2021, Boston Spirit shared the story of two Massachusetts natives and Boston residents—husbands Stephen and David St. Russell—two men who developed a massive social media...
