AIDS Activism
Bars and Clubs
Bisexuality
Coming Out
Harvard Counseling Groups
Harvard Student Organizations
Health
Hotlines
Mailing Lists
National Organizations
Newspapers
Non-Harvard Student Organizations
Online Greeting Cards
Online Shopping
Other Harvard Resources
Queer Culture 101
Resource Center
Transgender Resources
Websites
AIDS Activism
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Bars and Clubs
Aria
Dance club with 19+ gay night on Wednesdays.
246 Tremont St., Boston (map)
$8 cover.
| Avalon
Huge dance club with 21+ gay night on Sundays. $10 cover.
15 Lansdowne St., Boston (map) Take Green Line (any train but E) to Kenmore. Directions.
| Axis
Dance club with an 18+ gay night with a weekly drag show on Mondays!
13 Lansdowne Street, Boston
Take Green Line (any train but E) to Kenmore(map)
$7 cover (but watch out for the $3 coat check!)
| BUZZBoston
Saturday night dance party.
67 Stuart St., Boston (map)
| Club Cafe
Nice, classy restaurant and a fun video bar.
Always gay, but especially popular on Thursdays through Saturdays!
209 Columbus Ave, Boston (map)
| Diesel
257 Elm Street, Somerville.
A dyke-owned, very queer-friendly independent coffee spot in Davis Square, just 2 stops from Harvard on the Red Line. Diesel also has a sizeable trans clientele. They have pool tables, wireless internet, and some of the best coffee in town. Open Sun-Thurs until midnight Fri-Sat until 1am.
| Embasy
It’s on Landsdowne and it’s 10 bucks and 19+ on Thursday nights.
| Jacque's
This bar features rock 'n rollers Friday through Monday, drag queens Tuesday through Saturday.
79 Broadway, Boston (map)
| Machine
1256 Boylston St Boston.
Friday nights are really popular there.
| Manray
19+ gay night on Thursdays called Campus.
21 Brookline St., Cambridge (map), off of Mass. Ave. near Central T stop. If coming from T, take right at the Middle East.
$12 cover if 19+, $8 if 21+.
| Satellite
Satellite is a Sunday night party by the girls and for the girls at the Milky Way in Jamaica Plain.
403-405 Center St., Jamaica Plain (directions & map)
| Venu
Wednesday is Latin Night and is pretty popular. There’s also a drag show. 100 Warrenton St.
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Bisexuality
Bisexual Resource Guide
This is the website for the guide, although, of course, the guide itself is available in the BGLTSA Resource Center in Holworthy Basement.
| Boston Bisexual Women's Network
The Boston Bisexual Women's Network is a feminist, not-for-profit collective organization whose purpose is to bring women together for support and validation. It is meant to be a safe environment in which women of all sexual self-identities, class backgrounds, racial, ethnic, and religious groups, ages, abilities and disabilities are welcome.
| Robyn Ochs
Robyn Ochs is a bisexual activist and a Harvard administrator!
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Coming Out
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Harvard Counseling Groups
Bureau of Study Council
Contact: bsc@fas.harvard.edu
"A psychological and academic counseling center designed to help Harvard students fully develop their talents, ideals, and aspirations."
M-F 8:30AM-5:30PM
5 Linden Street
617-495-2581
| Contact
A confidential, UHS-supervised peer counseling group on issues of sex, sexuality, sexual orientation and gender. Feel free to drop by and talk about anything about yourself or a friend.
Th, Fri, & Sun, 8PM-1AM
Thayer Basement (enter on Old Yard side)
617-495-8111
| Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO)
ECHO is a peer counseling group that addresses concerns surrounding eating, body image, and self-esteem. Feel free to call about yourself or a friend.
| PCC
Sexual Health and Relationship Counsellors. Located in UHS 5th floor. Check thier website for hours details as hours tend to change accross the semester.
| Room 13
A confidential, peer-counseling group.
Every night, 7PM-7AM
Grays West Basement (enter from side of building closest to Mass Ave)
617-495-4969
| University Health Services -- Mental Health
UHS offers professional mental health services to members of the Harvard Community.
For urgent care nights, weekends, and holidays, call 617-495-5711.
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Harvard Student Organizations
BAGELS
A group for Jewish gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students.
| BOND
Contact: bond@hcs.harvard.edu
A social group for students who do not necessarily identify as exclusively heterosexual and their friends.
| Cornerstone
A discussion and support group for BGLT Catholics at Harvard and MIT and their friends and loved ones.
| Gay and Lesbian Student Association of Harvard Business School
| Girlspot
A group for women to discuss issues of sexual orientation.
| Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus
An association of BGLT Harvard and Radcliffe alumni/ae, faculty, and staff. Looking to get connected with an alum who can help you in a career search or with career questions in your field? If you register, you can search their database for alums who share your interests.
| Harvard Law School Lambda
HLS Lambda is a social and political student organization dedicated to serving the BGLT community at HLS.
| JFK School of Government LGBT Caucus
A coalition of LGBT and straight students, faculty, and alumni of the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
| LBGGS
Contact: lbggs@hcs.harvard.edu
A group for BGLT students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
| LGBT Alliance at the School of Public Health
| Women on Campus
Contact: Elizabeth (Elizabeth_Scharpf@ksg06.harvard.edu)
Women on Campus is a campus-wide group of Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Supportive grad students at all of Harvard's Grad schools.
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Health
Anti-Violence Project
The Anti-Violence Project is the nation's largest service agency for victims of bias crimes against the lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and HIV-affected communities. AVP provides free and confidential assistance to crime victims through a 24-hour bilingual hotline
(212-714-1141).
Their annual report of hate crimes and their statistics are extremely accurate and thorough.
The AVP works locally with Fenway's Violence Recovery Program (see below) which is a fantastic resource, especially if you are looking for something more local.
| Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
This is the place in the area where rape kits can be collected as evidence of rape or sexual assault. UHS will confidentially pay for a cab for you to go there. You can bring a friend with you or someone from the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. Contact, Response and Room 13 are also happy to provide someone safe to travel with you and stay with you as long as you want.
| Fenway Community Health Center
Medical / Counseling / Domestic violence / STIs
1-888-242-0900
7 Haviland St. (map & directions)
| Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
Located in Cambridge.
| Grand Opening Sexuality Boutique
A queer-friendly and feminist sex shop for all! They are located in a little shopping complex at 308A Harvard Street in Brookline (get there on the #66 bus from Harvard Square that picks up in front of the Kennedy
School of Government on JFK Street and get off the bus at Coolidge Corner). There is also an online store.
| Justice Resource Institute Health Programs
Programs addressing the needs of persons at risk of or living with HIV/AIDS and homeless, troubled, and GLBT youth.
| Office of Sexual Assault, Prevention and Response
OSAPR is the go-to place for all sexual assault information on campus. They also have a hotline that is answered 24-hours. Call 617-495-9100 for 24-hour information and help. They are super-LGBT friendly and, in fact, have hosted programming specifically on transgender issues as well as LGBT issues in general.
| The Network/La Red
A bilingual support organization in Boston for domestic and sexual violence survivors in the lesbian and bisexual women's and transgender communities.
| UHS
The UHS website has information specifically on sexuality (http://huhs.harvard.edu/HealthInformation/CWHCWellnessInformationSexuality.htm) and STIs (http://huhs.harvard.edu/HealthInformation/CWHCWellnessInformationSTIs.htm).
| Violence Recovery Program
Contact: VRP@fenwayhealth.org
(617) 927-6250
Run by Fenway Community Health, the VRP deals with violence as a result of hate/bias crimes and also with partner violence. They're a great resource for you and are also an important group to contact in order to report a crime that has occurred as they keep very close statistics on hate violence.
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Hotlines
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Helpline
1-888-340-GLBT (1-888-340-4528) or
617-267-9001
Mon-Fri 6pm - 11pm, Sat-Sun 5pm-10pm
GLBT staffed
| Peer Listening Line
1-800-399-PEER (1-800-399-7337) or
617-267-2535
M-F 5PM-10PM
Staffed by GLBT youth under 25
| San Francisco Sex Information Line
While this is no longer a phone line, it is still a great site for FAQs about sex of all kinds. Visit just for fun or with a specific question in mind!
| Trevor Helpline
1-866-4U-TREVOR (1-866-488-7386)
The only national 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hot line aimed at gay and questioning youth.
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Mailing Lists
Khush
'khush' is a mailing list for gay, lesbian, bisexual South Asians and their friends. They define South Asian as people from or descending from countries such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka. The purpose of this list is to discuss South
Asian gay culture/experiences/issues, as well as form a social and support network. Currently the list is not moderated and anybody can join or leave the list at any time.
| Queer Agenda
A free weekly email calendar of events and bi-weekly classifieds for queer women and their allies in the Boston region.
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National Organizations
LLEGÓ, the National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization
LLEGÓ, the National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization represents Latina/o lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities and addressing their growing needs regarding an array of social issues ranging from civil rights and social justice to health and human services.
LLEGÓ develops solutions to social, health and political disparities that exist due to discrimination based on ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity and which affect the lives and well-being of Latina/o LGBT people and their families.
| National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
NGLTF is the national progressive organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, with the vision and commitment to building a powerful political movement.
| National Transgender Advocacy Group
The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition works proactively to reform societal attitudes and the law to achieve equal rights for the transgendered and other gender diverse individuals.
Believing in the worth and dignity of all human beings, we also participate in the struggles of other wrongly oppressed minorities on the issues we share.
| The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
GLSEN works to ensure safe and effective schools for all students.
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Newspapers
Bay Windows
New England's largest BGLT newspaper.
| innewsweekly
New England's largest BGLT news & entertainment weekly.
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Non-Harvard Student Organizations
Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth
The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth provides weekly and monthly social activities and special events for youth 22 and under. These activities provide an opportunity for youth to socialize and have fun and develop a sense of personal and community identity.
| Boston College
GLBT @ BC
This page links to the other GLBT groups and resources at BC. It may be especially interesting because their groups are primarily directed with a catholic focus.
| BU
| GaMIT
An organization devoted to insuring the existence of a queer-positive environment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and beyond.
| LGBT@MIT
| Wellesley Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgendereds and Friends
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Online Greeting Cards
She Cards
Free sweet, sexy, fun online greeting cards by and for lesbians.
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Online Shopping
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Other Harvard Resources
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Queer Culture 101
A Brief Dictionary of Queer Slang and Culture
| Ambiguously Gay Duo Video Clips
Watch Quicktime movies of Ace & Gary, stars of their own animated, re-ocurring Saturday Night Live feature, as they save the world in an un-ambiguously gay way.
| Barbara Streisand
Gay men are inexplicably attracted to (or at least have been historically associated with) this songstress.
| Butch McCloud
A comic-turned-show about the "war" between butches and femmes.
| Cher
See Barbara Streisand.
| Hedwig in a Box
Great fan site for Hedwig--everyone's favorite tranny rock-n-roller! (The fictional subject of a musical and a movie, both called Hedwig and the Angry Inch.)
| Judy Garland
See Barbara Streisand.
| Madonna
See Barbara Streisand.
| Margaret Cho
Fantastically raunchy and politically aware Korean-American comedienne with a large queer following.
| Queer As Folk
Official site for this groundbreaking show about gay life.
| Queer Duck
Hilarious online, animated series about the misadventures of a very queer duck and his friends.
| Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Five fabulous gay men make over clueless straight guys on TV every Tuesday @ 10pm on Bravo.
| Rob's Will & Grace Web Page
An outstanding fan-site for Will & Grace. Lots of great features, including sound and video clips and a transcript for almost every episode.
| Rupaul
Visit the world's most famous drag queen.
| Savage Love
Dan Savage gives bitchy, campy but oh-so-insightful advice in his weekly sex column.
| The L Word
The L word is one of the hottest new shows on TV. Very few shows cast characters with queer women playing such different roles.
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Resource Center
BGLTSA Resource Center
Contact: Eve Drucker, Stephanie Skier, and Scott Smukalla (edrucker@fas.harvard.edu; skier@fas.harvard.edu; smukalla@fas.harvard.edu)
The BGLTSA Resource Center is located in the basement of Holworthy Hall in Harvard Yard. The BGLTSA has a lending library of books, comics, videos and DVDs, and a non-circulating collection of magazines. It is open Monday through Friday, 11am-5pm, and is staffed by undergraduate members of the BGLTSA. Stop by and check it out!
The Resource Center Movie List is now online!
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Transgender Resources
Androgyny RAQ (Rarely Asked Questions)
| ButchDykeBoy
A website to help you keep up with what's going on in the Boston genderqueer scene. Maintained by Gunner who you may have seen at one of his many appearances at Harvard.
| Compass
Compass is a New England area female-to-male (FTM) trans support, information, and social group for people assigned female at birth who feel that is not an accurate or complete description of their gender.
| GenderTalk
An entertaining and funny weekly radio show put on by two trans women "that talks about transgenderism in the first person" that can be heard online or on the air (taped at MIT). There are archives available and some of the guests on the show are both famous and super.
| Harvard Trans Resources 101
Just click on http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~queer/transinfo.html for BGLTSA's updated information. Please email any officers of BGLTSA for more information.
| Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
Contact: info@masstpc.org
The MTPC is a group that educates the public, lobbies state and local government, encourages political activism, and empowers community members through collective action with the goal of ending discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression.
| Remembering Our Dead: The Victims of Transphobia
An online memorial to victims of transphobic violence.
| Trannys Talk Back
Trannys Talk Back was published in fall 2006 by a group of transgender, genderqueer and questioning Harvard community members.
A lower-resolution (smaller file-size) copy is available at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~ttb_small.pdf .
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Trans Accessibility Project: Transphobia and Discrimination
Introduction to some issues surrounding transphobia and discrimination.
| transinfo@hcs.harvard.edu
Feel free to use this e-mail if you need information about transgender resources and accomodations on campus. It will be answered by Thomas who a former Harvard student and is familiar with Harvard resources. transinfo@hcs is completely confidential.
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Websites
ButchDykeBoy.com
"An on-line resource for the Boston Queer - Transgender - Gender Queer and free thinkers of all kinds, everywhere!" Includes columns, news, events, and a message board.
| Gay.com
Anything and everything gay, including chat rooms. (Please keep these online safety tips in mind while using gay.com.)
| PlanetOut
A Big Gay Site with an extensive collection of personal ads and lots of other content, including the wonderful comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For.
| Queery.com
The best part of this gay portal is its TVGayGuide, which lists all of the "gay shows" on TV today. (Expect to see everything from Felicity to Queer as Folk to South Park.)
| Quench Zine
Contact: Rachel Culley (rculley@fas.harvard.edu)
Hot Harvard-run e-zine for all things queer women.
| strap-on.org
"A progressive, queer-centered, sex-positive, girl-friendly online community" with a large message board.
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