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‘The love that dares not speak its name’ no more

April 27, 2024 by Elena Neves

Things have certainly changed for gay Bay State politicians since Barney Frank and Gerry Studds were almost run out of Congress, Barney for his sordid affair with a rent boy named Hot Bottom, and Studds for plying a teenaged male Congressional page with vodka and then sodomizing him. Now Julian Cyr is the flamboyantly gay … Read more

Blunts, tattered flags and Howie debate challenge

March 3, 2024 by Elena Neves

Pols & Politics, the Herald’s weekly political notebook, is back with regular insight from the reporters covering power players in the State House, City Hall, and our Congressional delegation. A failed deal on immigration reform that lost steam in the U.S. Senate earlier this month was still fresh on Beacon Hill’s mind this week — … Read more