History Project bears witness to early days of AIDS with post-show panel on SpeakEasy’s...
Remember what it was like way back in the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic? The fear and loss, but also the community and compassion?
Maybe you were too young. Maybe, like a lot of...
American support for same-sex marriage never higher, Gallup survey shows
Support for same-sex marriage among the U.S. public has never been higher and the approval for legalizing marriage equality appears to only be growing. A recent Gallup survey shows a whopping 60-percent approval rating.
A May...
Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are: National Coming Out Day is Oct. 11
This Saturday, October 11th, is National Coming Out Day. Coming on the heels of a historic week in which marriage equality spread to more than 30 states, some have begun to ask ‘Do we...
10 Years On: Gay Marriage in Massachusetts
On May 17, 2004, history was made. Massachusetts became the first state in the country to honor legal same-sex marriages. And when one considers the ripple effect that had—catalyzing greater acceptance that permeated everything from pop culture to politics—it is no exaggeration to say that for gay men and women, America changed forever.
And it happened because of “Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health,” the landmark court case argued by GLAD’s Mary Bonauto. Together, seven couples shared their lives with the world in the hopes that they might change it. And a decade later, we revisited each of them to reflect on the case, its impact, how it changed their lives.
JFK’s Gay Best Friend
Fifty years ago this month, on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, Lem Billings had just returned from lunch when he heard the news. He was an advertising executive at Lennen and Newell in New York and as he approached his office building at 380 Madison Avenue, Billings saw immediately that something was wrong. Waves of people rolled out of the building onto the street, some looked confused, others wept. According to David Pitts, author of Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship, a face in the crowd approached Billings and said, “I’m so sorry about the president.”
Who in the ‘H*ck’ is Prescott Townsend
He may just be the most influential gay rights pioneer you’ve never heard of
Prescott Townsend may be the most influential Boston gay rights pioneer you have never heard of. If so, hang on; before we’re through, Townsend will cross paths with Andre Gide, 1960s hippies, John Waters and his star, Mink Stole. And that’s not counting the army of young men who lived with him on Beacon Hill and in Provincetown, as long as their waist sizes hovered very close to 30-inches.