A digital discussion on what it’s like to travel as a trans or non-binary person
After the success of last year’s Pride webinar series, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be shining the spotlight on trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming travel this year. We’ll be chatting with some exceptional people from the LGBTQ+ community about what it’s like to explore the world as a trans or non-binary traveler, as well as what allies and the travel industry can do to support them on their journeys. Join our Pride panel conversation and see our line-up here!
Boomers and Beyond: Brookline Senior Center announcements
COURTESY OF BROOKLINE COUNCIL OF AGING AT BROOKLINE SENIOR CENTER
Ongoing events
Springwell grab-and-go hot lunches
The center is now offering hot “grab and go” lunches Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays in collaboration with Springwell. To reserve a hot lunch, residents must call the Senior Center at 617-730-2747 two business days in advance. There will be no admission to the Senior Center for any reason at the time of pickup. Those who are not feeling well and/or have a temperature of 100 degrees or higher should stay home and contact their physician. Face coverings (i.e., scarf, mask, bandana) are required when picking up the meal. Residents will be required to follow the directions provided by staff and volunteers at the time of arrival. Employees will ask residents for information on the phone so that they do not need to fill out forms at the time of pick up. For more information on the menu selections, call 617-730-2
Storm the NIH ACT UP Action, May 1990 / Image: NIH History Office
Sarah Schulman’s new history of AIDS activism group ACT UP NY is a definitive and instructive history of how outsiders forced the government to accept that they mattered.
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993
Sarah Schulman
Let the Record Show, Sarah Schulman’s monumental new history of ACT UP New York, is a war chronicle in which the teller is both scribe and veteran. Schulman joined the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) a few months after it was founded in 1987. At that point, six years into the crisis, there were an estimated 500,000 people living with HIV in the United States alone, there were still no effective medical treatments, and the U.S. government’s anemic response to the pandemic was a toxic cocktail of homophobia and hysteria.