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OPEN WIDE for The
Taste of Provincetown on July 20 at the Town Hall. You’ll find food and wine from 20 restaurants, like Bayside Betsy’s and Waterford Inn, plus a ‘Quickfire Challenge’ cook-off judged by out Top Chef alum Tiffani Faison and last year’s winner, Sage Inn’s Lucio Garnica. Open your wallet, too: it’s a fundraiser for MassEquality. (Tickets: massequality.org)
donation to the nonprofit: camplightbulb.org. (Adults, we have your outdoorsy gay getaways covered too. See page 52.)
BRIGHTEN THE SUMMER
BUY SOME ARM CANDY at
for an LGBT youth in your life. Provincetown’s Camp Lightbulb runs weeklong overnights from July 28 through August 24, all providing a uniquely supportive summer camp environment: think whale watches, bonfires, gallery trips, even LGBT history sessions. Know no queer kids’ Sponsor a needy camper with a
designer Danquell Bradford
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WhatsYourPrice.com, where you can bid on first dates with eligible singles. Apparently pool boy jobs don’t pay what they used to, because the site experienced a 26-percent surge in gay college memberships once the school year ended. Two Massachusetts cities rank in the site’s Top 10 Newlyweds Michael Oliveri and Adam Beddie photo Samantha Robshaw
list of most gay dates: Boston, where the average accepted date offer is $119.44, and Rockport, where it’s $303.14.
SEND A CONGRATS CARD
to newlyweds and boys-abouttown Adam Beddie, manager of upscale boutique Gretta Luxe, and Michael Oliveri, an associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers and organizer behind Pride in Our Workplace, a series of LGBT professional networking events. The couple married in June in Provincetown, where the ceremony included a Cape-inspired color scheme (green and purple) and a very special ring bearer: their beloved pooch, Bradley.
PAGE THROUGH the memoir Lies About My Family, the latest by Boston author Amy Hoffman, editor in chief of Women’s Review of Books. In the touching and funny Lies, Hoffman digs through Ellis Island archives to learn more about her immigrant grandparents. She shares how her discoveries intersect with her lesbian identity, and help heal her once-distant relationships with her parents and her Jewish community.
TAKE A DRIVE
by the sleek showroom of modern furniture brand BoConcept in Cambridge, run by out partners
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Anthony Goodh and Luis Rojas. BoConcept just announced a clever collaboration with auto company Smart: it is designing unique, modern car interiors for the company, plus some auto-inspired furnishings (like odometer-esque clocks) for customers looking to rev up their home décor.
SIZE UP the shirts from Dani
and Dan’quell (dddesignonline. com), the Boston-based brand from lesbian designer Danquell Bradford. The line held its launch party last month, rolling out casual apparel celebrating unity among races and sexual orientations. Its philanthropic collection, United Senergy, donates a portion of proceeds to community nonprofits.
KEEP AN EYE on Smith Col-
lege, which recently announced that a committee would be formed to review its admissions policies for transgender applicants. In May a student group delivered a 4,000-signature petition after Calliope Wong, a transgender woman, was rejected. Smith currently accepts transgender students if they legally identify as female at the time of application, but Wong was identified as male on her financial aid forms. [x]