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Nobody Better Mess With Vol. 18 • June 17, 2010 - June 30, 2010 www.therainbowtimesnews.com FREE! The RYour LGBTQainbow News in MA, RI, North Central Times CT & Southern VT The PHOTO: ERIC HAYNES RYour LGBTQainbow News in MA, RI, North Central Times CT & Southern VT The KATHERINE PATRICK Massachusetts Governor’s Secret Campaign Weapon p3 HARDY ID Your LGBTQ News in MA, RI, North Central CT & Southern VT V Rainbow Times DA PHOTO: PHOTO: WIL FERNANDEZ DERRICK BARRY Coming Face To Face With The Princess Of Pop p19 Nobody Better Mess With PHOTO: BILL BERGGREN Killian Wells p18 2010 PRIDE PHOTos InsIDE: RI PRIDE TRIPLE CRown WInnERS BosTon PRIDE 40TH AnnIVERSARY! Pride Day June 19th pB22 ConnECTICUT PRIDE! • June 17, 010 - June 30, 010 • The Rainbow Times • www.therainbowtimesnews.com Boston & Hartford Pride and the The Controversial Couch next Pride events on the horizon Lie back and listen. Then get up and do something! By: Gricel M. Ocasio/TRT Publisher If you were not able to attend Boston Pride this By: Suzan Ambrose*/TRT Columnist voyeurism. t was a pleasure to be a part of the year, you can get a taste of the festivities in this omo kisses are all the rage. So is it vogue to be gay-lite now? Boston Pride week and to be in- edition with our featured pictures. As well, you First up: Miley Cyrus is So it seems. The country hasn’t vited to commentate for the largest will find a photo spread for our coverage of Hkissing girls. Again. Or not fallen apart, and God hasn’t sent out I at all, depending upon what you the locusts, although there are more Pride Parade and Festival in New Eng- Hartford Pride, which was a really great Pride land. It was an honor and a privilege event too. think you saw when she performed on “Britain’s gnats in my back yard. Straight people are seem- Desk to work with the Boston Pride Board, Now, we will move towards the next Pride Got Talent.” Cyrus, 17 and a child star who has ingly more and more into gay-like posturing. Committee, Executive Director and events (Providence, RI, VT Pride, New Bed- worked on the Disney Channel for many years Nowhere else is this more noticeable than in volunteers. Most importantly, it was a ford, MA, Worcester, MA, etc.). Let’s continue as Hannah Montana, is in the spotlight for kiss- the Czech Republic, where straight men having pleasure to be around our loyal read- to join and support them all in Pride, for Pride ing a fellow dancer while performing live on the gay sex is the hottest thing ... for cash. According ers and advertisers in the Boston area and all of us. show. to GlobalPost.com, straight men are perceived and beyond. We can never thank you Best in Pride, Her latest song, titled “Can’t Be Tamed,” as being more masculine, which is what sells in enough for picking up a copy of The is apropos for little Miss Disney ears and her the porn industry, and in Prague, thin, cute guys Rainbow Times and for recognizing Gricel M. Ocasio new look, which includes fishnet stockings and help the “Twinkville” image of what is appeal- our stories, product and placing your Publisher don’t-cha-wanna-do-me spiked boots. I’m sure ing to American consumers of gay porn. trust in us. Thank you for your warm this is going over swell with her fan base, the 11- Of course they insist they’re straight. I mean, *Gricel M. Ocasio is the co-founder, co-own- it worked for Senator Larry Craig and Reverend welcome and for giving TRT a special er and Publisher of The Rainbow Times. She is 16 year olds who are already putting her latest place in your lives! fashion on their Back to School list for Mommy Ted Haggart. Getting a boner for another guy is a graduate of Temple University and has been … all in a day’s work, right? The men say they We look forward to Boston Pride in the journalism and publishing field for almost to purchase, as this new generation continues to look more like Red Light District professionals need the money and the economy’s suffering. Publisher’s next year and congratulate everyone 20 years. You can reach her at: publisher@ The gay porn industry is thriving, especially who had anything to do with it and its success. therainbowtimesnews.com. than fans of the Mickey Mouse Club. But hey! She denies the kiss and said she when they pay these gents a sixth of what they’d was just “rocking out with another female band make in the States. The guys like having the Hetero-normative concepts of desire: Queer sex member.” Wow. What’s considered rocking out cash to impress or take care of their girlfriends these days would have been grounds for burning so they continue to show up for filming. I mean, breaks all of these concepts and it’s political too! at the stake not long ago. Note to Joan of Arc. do they say:” Hey honey, I’m just gonna go get Then there was the Dustin Hoffman and Jason something to eat and a lube job and I’ll be home By: Jason Lydon/TRT Opinion Writer that is pretty Bateman kiss on the Jumbotron at the Lakers soon?” ew things are more fun during incredible. The game in L.A. Apparently the “Kiss Cam” fo- What’s interesting about what’s happening in Pride week than seeking out a reality of sexual cused in on them and, with their wives sitting Prague is that the country has very relaxed at- Fhot trick, FB, or lover. Some- assault is too of- right next to them, they locked lips for the whole titudes about homosexuality. It isn’t an issue for times we even fall in love (I did last ten overlooked arena to enjoy. Who knows? Maybe the wives See Homo Kisses on page 23 year with a guy visiting from Chicago in our commu- were onboard for some healthy homo-husband ... oh swoon). Everywhere you turn nities and when there are sexy half naked people seek- we do not talk ing out some of the best parts of being about the es- queer—hot sex. Some of this sex hap- sential aspect of Letters to the Editor The Rainbow Times pens on the dance floors as hands slow- consent we cre- Jason Lydon 351 Pleasant St., #322 ate an environ- Dear Editor, ly glide under belts and slip behind Loved your Boston Pride coverage. It was Northampton, MA 01060 Opinion underwear elastic bands. This sex also ment where sexual violence can go unchecked www.therainbowtimesmass.com happens in bathroom stalls, on kitchen and ignored. Queer sex is wonderful and exciting, comprehensive and had everything needed floors, romantically in the bedroom, slippery in but the lonely feeling one can get and the suffer- to get ready and navigate around Boston. [email protected] the shower, or in the backroom of an often fre- ing one can experience after a sexual assault has Great coverage! [email protected] quented bar. It can be kinky, it can be vanilla, the capacity to ruin the beauty of queer sex. —Brittany M., Boston, MA [email protected] it can be silly, it can be sexy, yet best of all it is Queer sex is political! Even with the overturn Phone: 413.282.8881, greatest when it is queer! of sodomy laws our sex is still criminalized Dear Editor, 617.444.9618 or 617.438.4364 Queer sex can happen anywhere and in so throughout much of the United States and other I think that Susan Ryan-Vollmar was right Fax: 206.203.0436 many different ways with lots of different body places around the world. That we have been to write on her story that a single woman is able to defy a lifetime of hetero-socialization immediately seen as a lesbian. It is a me- Publisher Columnists parts and silicone toys or leather straps. This sex Gricel M. Ocasio Suzan Ambrose must always have one essential aspect to it, con- and connect sexually with other people in queer dia spectacle and we shouldn’t tolerate such comments whether they are true or not. I like Editor-In-Chief Lorelei Erisis sent! Have you ever noticed that the word con- See Queer Sex on page 16 Tetty Gorfine sensual has the word sensual right in it? I think Ryan-Vollmar’s comparison to that of firsts Nicole Lashomb Sales Manager Deja N. Greenlaw and how it all matters. It’s always harder on Paul P. Jesep Bill Berggren the person pioneering the efforts. Kudos for Jason Lydon publishing the story! Distribution Manager J.M. Sorrell Just Ask! Advice Column —Larry C., Cambridge, MA SJ Seymour Reporters By: Tetty Gorfine*/TRT Columnist Hi Todd: Sales Associates Joe Siegel Hello Tetty: Yes, new love can be To Jason Lydon, Chris Gilmore Tynan Power I don’t know how to say this. I really hard on a close friend- Thank you for writing about the Puerto Liz Johnson Susan Ryan-Vollmar screwed up! My very close friend has ship. You have come to Rican trans woman that was murdered be- Webmaster Lead Designer been involved with this guy for the last depend on your buddy cause the struggle, I agree, is not even close Jarred Johnson Jim Curran several months. Before this we hung for support, companion- to being over. I like your words and they ship and social activity.
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