We're giving away a pair of tickets to see i google myself at the Hyde Park Theatre on 7/24. Jason Schafer's play was a success last year, with praise such as "the show breathed some life and dimension into queer-ish characters who are too often represented as two dimensional place-holders" (our own Sam Armstrong), and, "It's a taught, sexy play given a taught, sexy production" (the Statesman's Michael Barnes)....

Gay people and good theatre go hand-in-hand, see: ancient Greece and Tennessee Williams. Conversely, good gay-themed theatre can be hard to come by. How many tired ensemble pieces populated with predictable muscle marys, self-important disco queens, wilting PLWA s, stoic bears and bubbly twink ingenues (each grappling with their place in the world) can one art form support?...

ArtSpark 2008 applications are available through 3/31, and this year HBMG is awarding $15,000 in prizes to two winning creative teams. For the uninitiated, ArtSpark throws a "spark"—a piece of visual art or music—to a group of creative teams and tasks them with creating a new play or video game. If you're active in almost any creative field, check it out....

When I graduated from college, there's weren't a lot of gay characters in movies and TV. This was the mid-90's so when there was a gay character, he was usually dying of AIDS. I saw every one of these movies, but I was desperate to see characters more like myself....