Boston Spirit MagazineBoston Spirit Magazinehttp://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/home/2013-03-27T23:01:30ZSquarespaceLGBT Executive Networking Night Postponed to March 20, 2013http://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/home/2013/3/6/lgbt-executive-networking-night-postponed-to-march-20-2013.htmleditor2013-03-06T18:13:22Z2013-03-06T18:13:22Z 

Due to the impending storm scheduled to hit Boston tomorrow, the 2013 Boston Spirit LGBT Executive Networking Night has been postponed until March 20th. The new date promises to be a beautiful spring day (and a much better hair day!!) If you have already RSVP'd there is no need to do so again, and now there is more time to invite your friends to attend!

The event will remain at the Boston Marriott Copley Place and doors will open at 6:00 p.m. as scheduled. If you know of others who planned to attend tomorrow night please pass on the postponement information.

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you all on the 20th.

 

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Join Boston Spirit magazine for our 6th Annual LGBT Executive Networking Night. Taking place on March 20th at the Boston Marriott Copley Place from 6-9pm, last year's event was attended by more than 1,300 local LGBT corporate professionals, making it the largest LGBT business event in New England … don’t be left out in 2013.

This year's keynote speaker is Maura Healey, Chief of the Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. She is lead counsel in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the state’s challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and amicus counsel for Massachusetts in the U.S. Supreme Court cases U.S. v. Windsor, challenging DOMA, and Hollingsworth v. Perry, challenging California’s Proposition 8.

Many of our exhibitors are hiring, if you are in the market for a new career be sure to bring resumes!

Where: Boston Marriott Copley Place

When: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

There is a $10 admission fee to attend this event.

You must RSVP to attend this event. Click here to RSVP.

 

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Louislist-Soho Beach House from Louislist on Vimeo.

]]>New England’s Gay ‘Espys’: PrideSports Awards Gala — Jan. 26, 2013http://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/home/2012/11/15/new-englands-gay-espys-pridesports-awards-gala-jan-26-2013.htmleditor2012-11-15T19:40:35Z2012-11-15T19:40:35Zstory by Erik Borg

Boston’s LGBT athletic leagues set to host first awards banquet for the area’s over 2,000 out athletes; Boston Herald columnist Steve Buckley to host on January 26

[Tickets for this event are available here]

There are more than 2,000 athletes across Boston’s 18 LGBT sports organizations, and it’s pretty safe to say they’ve never all convened for the same event.

That could change next year, as plans for the first-annual LGBT New England Sports Award Banquet finally come together almost four years after it was first dreamed up.

The event, modeled to be a gay cousin of ESPN’s Espy sports award show, is scheduled for Saturday, January 26 at the Westin Waterfront hotel.

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BewitchedNew England’s gay ghosts come out of the closet
For the record, Casper was more than just a “friendly” ghost. Yep, when the playful spirit opened his mouth, a spooktacular, rainbow-colored purse fell out. And, as for his witchy gal pal Wendy? She was a hag … and we’re not talking the kind with a pointy hat and broomstick.
Gay ghosts? Historically, the spirit realm has transcended sexual orientation. Now that the tightly-guarded doors of the paranormal closet have creaked open, spirits from New England’s not-so-Puritanical past are coming out.
With the gay-friendly holiday known as Halloween lurking in the horizon, we’ve assembled a motley crew of atypical regional haunts, ranging from Boston’s oldest continuously operated hotel which allegedly boasts a gender-bending spirit to a former funeral parlor turned bed & breakfast in Provincetown.
]]>New England's Hot Summer Entertainmenthttp://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/home/2012/7/16/new-englands-hot-summer-entertainment.htmleditor2012-07-16T16:39:36Z2012-07-16T16:39:36ZThe July|August issue of Boston Spirit magazine highlights the sizzling talent jetting over to New England's most popular summer venues. Here, we profile the Afterglow performance arts festival and the divas descending on Provinetown's Art House Theater this season as well as Jacob's Pillow in Western Massachusett's Berkshire mountains.]]>2012 Boston Spirit Sunset Cruise to Benefit Fenway Healthhttp://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/home/2012/4/11/2012-boston-spirit-sunset-cruise-to-benefit-fenway-health.htmleditor2012-04-11T18:26:14Z2012-04-11T18:26:14ZGet your summer started right with Boston Spirit's annual Boston Harbor Sunset Cruise the evening of Wednesday, June 20!  We'll be cruising on Bay State Cruise Company’s Provincetown II departing at the World Trade Center dock in Boston's Seaport District at 6:30 p.m. and will cruise around Boston Harbor enjoying the delicious and sweet sounds of DJ Mocha plus scrumptuous food by Jasper White's Summer Shack. There's a Cash Bar and a silent auction & raffles through the evening!]]>Becoming Michelle: Marathon is Metaphor for Trans Woman’s Journeyhttp://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/home/2012/4/8/becoming-michelle-marathon-is-metaphor-for-trans-womans-jour.htmleditor2012-04-08T12:00:00Z2012-04-08T12:00:00ZMichelle Figueiredoby Sam Baltrusis photo by Ryan Miner

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 planned to go through with the last stage of her transformation from male to female. 

“I made three New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of the year,” she recalls, marveling at how far she’s come in so little time. “I vowed to lose weight and get healthy, to do my best and train for and run a marathon, and to book my surgery and have it by the time I turn 40.”

]]>Chaz Bono: Keynote Speaker — 2012 LGBT Executive Network Nighthttp://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/home/2012/1/6/chaz-bono-keynote-speaker-2012-lgbt-executive-network-night.htmleditor2012-01-06T21:40:48Z2012-01-06T21:40:48ZChaz Bono (photo by Kristian Dowling)Join Boston Spirit magazine for our 5th Annual LGBT Executive Networking Night. Taking place on March 28th at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, the event will feature our 2012 Keynote Speaker Chaz Bono! In February, 2011 more than 1,000 local lgbt corporate professionals attended this event making it the largest LGBT business event in New England … don’t be left out in 2012.]]>Top 10 Gay Reasons to Vote GOP in 2012http://www.bostonspiritmagazine.com/home/2012/1/3/top-10-gay-reasons-to-vote-gop-in-2012.html2012-01-03T21:04:44Z2012-01-03T21:04:44ZGay Pride flier from Mitt Romney during his term as governor of Massachusetts, 2003-2007. (special thanks to Alex Oneto for the image)

by James A. Lopata

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told a gay Iowan recently that if LGBT issues were most important for him, then he should vote for Obama.

The GOP record on gay rights is pretty dismal compared to Democrats, but even so, in the 2010 elections, 31 percent of gay voters said they voted Republican. Surely these must not be single-issue gay voters.

But what if there were actual gay reasons for voting Republican? I stretched my powers of imagination and came up with a list of The Top Ten Gay Reasons to Vote GOP in the 2012 presidential elections.

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