Bay Windows

Bay Windows is a weekly newspaper focused on LGBT issues, based in Boston, Massachusetts, and catering to the New England area. Founded in 1983 by Sasha Alyson, the publication was acquired in 1985 by James Hoover, who was also the publisher of the South End News. In 2003, it changed hands again, this time being sold to Jeff Coakley and Sue O'Connell.

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Billy Masters 04.17.25

1 week ago | baywindows.com | Billy Masters

"What in the faggotry are you talking about?"—Gayle King quotes a Matteo Lane joke to his face. While many people have their panties in a bunch over Gayle's use of the word "faggotry", Matteo gets the last word. "I love you Gayle King". Détente. That was the word Patti LuPone used when she reunited with Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber at the 2018 Grammys. Maybe it's something about New York City, because another notable détente just took place there—this one between Sir Elton John and Madonna.
When they come for you

1 week ago | baywindows.com | Richard Rosendall

What's your deportable offense? You might think I would be worried. After all, my 2015 year-in-review was titled "Year of the Arsonist," the arsonist being Mr. Trump. It was illustrated by a photo of the 1933 Reichstag fire. I have been no kinder since. Thus you might wonder when I will be dragged off to a torture prison in El Salvador. Why would our bold, world-straddling ruler be concerned with an obscure scribbler? He recently slighted the country of Lesotho, which he said no one ever heard of.
Trump administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ health questions

3 weeks ago | baywindows.com | Carla K. Johnson

A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science. Last week the U.S. government terminated at least 68 grants to 46 institutions totaling nearly $40 million when awarded, according to a government website.
In honor of black trans women

1 month ago | baywindows.com | Irene Monroe

Transgender rights have been on the chopping block since the Trump 2.0 administration took office. Pushback, however, has been equally fierce across the country in Trump's attempt to erase our trans and non-binary communities from the social fabric of American life. Our trans and non-binary communities have clapped back in political and artistic ways. For 2025 Women's History Month, I honor two black transwomen- Rita Hester and Giselle Kristina Byrd.
New Family Equality CEO Wants to "Double Down" on Impact for LGBTQ+ Families

1 month ago | baywindows.com | Dana Rudolph

For Darra Gordon, her new role as CEO of Family Equality, the national organization for LGBTQ+ families, is "more of a calling than a choice." She and her wife Nicole are raising three children, one of whom identifies as nonbinary. The work of Family Equality is therefore "incredibly, deeply personal to me," she said in an interview. "I love being a parent," she shared. "It was always a lifelong dream. I did not envision a world ever where I was not.
Billy Masters 03.20.25

1 month ago | baywindows.com | Billy Masters

"Thank you, Madame Chair." Representative Sarah McBride's response when the Chair for the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, Keith Self, referred to her as "Representative from Delaware Mr. McBride." Sarah may have been willing to move on, but Rep. Bill Keating from Massachusetts interjected: "Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?" He added, "You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way." With that, the hearing came to an end.
Billy Masters 03.06.25

1 month ago | baywindows.com | Billy Masters

"I am thrilled to accept the Razzie award in so many important categories for @megalopolisfilm, and for the distinctive honor of being nominated as the worst director, worst screenplay, and worst picture at a time when so few have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking!"- Francis Ford Coppola begins his Razzie acceptance speech via Instagram. Of course, one can rebound from a Razzie. Pamela Anderson was named Razzie Redeemer for "The Last Showgirl".
We don't need Trump's permission to celebrate us

1 month ago | baywindows.com | Irene Monroe

Frederick Douglas is dead. In 2017, President Donald J. Trump didn't appear to know this fact. However, in 2025, he may still not know. In kicking off Black History Month in 2017, Trump hosted a "listening session" at the White House, leaving attendants scratching their heads wondering if he knew Douglass—a self-liberated former enslaved male turned abolitionist—died in 1895.
Battling the broligarchs

1 month ago | baywindows.com | Richard Rosendall

Our weapons are truth and the courage to speak itThe calculated ambush of Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Donald Trump and JD Vance in the Oval Office on February 28 was the starkest demonstration yet of the threat Trump poses to America and the free world. While the Ukrainian president remained composed, Vance accused him of disrespect, and Trump accused him of "gambling with World War III."Hardly. Zelenskyy has stood at the vanguard of freedom for three years against Russian aggressor Vladimir Putin.
Representation and Resistance

1 month ago | baywindows.com | Dana Rudolph

LGBTQ+-inclusive content for kids, including performances, books, curricula, and more, has come under ever-increasing attack, bolstered in recent months by the federal government—but people are speaking out and fighting back. After President Trump fired the board of the Kennedy Center and named himself chair of its board, the organization cancelled a scheduled performance of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. and the National Symphony Orchestra.