University of Maine’s annual Gay Thanksgiving offers safe space for all
The holidays can be an especially hard time for LGBTQ youth.
At the University of Maine, two student groups—UMaine LGBTQ Services and Wilde Stein: Queer Straight Alliance—get out front of this issue each year hosting...
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus reboots ‘Born This Way’ for spring concert, March 11–12
Tickets are now on sale for “Born This Way,” to be performed March 11 and 12 by the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. Featuring music from...
Stage legend Everett Quinton returns to Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Sept. 26–29
Through new interpretations of his plays and by pairing him with notable literary masters spanning continents and time periods, the annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, running September 26–29, keeps the great American playwright in...
Melissa Etheridge: A new tour, book & album of previously unreleased songs
Even the biggest legends in the music business can still hide a few surprises up their sleeves.
Just look at Melissa Etheridge, a bona...
Queer comedian Margaret Cho comes to Boston’s Wilbur Theatre
Queer comedian Margaret Cho is back on the road—and she’s angry as hell. Luckily, she’s funny as hell too. See for yourself when she brings “The PsyCHO Tour” to Boston’s Wilbur Theatre on October...
Stuart Brown streams the ‘Sounds of Broadway’ for show-starved fans
With Broadway still dark due to COVID-19, many musical theater aficionados are desperate for a hearty helping of belters and ballads, Merman and Martin (Mary or Short). One of the easiest and...
King Richard’s Faire is LGBTQ-welcoming, inside and out
“Disneyworld might be the happiest place on Earth,” says Richard Weber, “but Renaissance fairs are the most welcoming.”
Weber knows whereof he speaks. He...
North Shore youth center exhibits powerful work by LGBT refugee artists
A ground-breaking exhibit of art by eight young LGBTQ artists currently relocated in Vienna, Austria, opens this week at The North Shore Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth (nAGLY)'s gallery in Salem.
The...
Did Doris Duke murder her gay friend at her Newport mansion in 1966?
If investigative journalist and true crime author Peter Lance has his way, the name of Eduardo Tirella will soon be as famous as that of Doris Duke, once...
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...
