The Dragon Boat Festival is on the Charles this Saturday and Sunday
Flash
Forward Festival | Featuring up-and-coming photographers from the
US, the UK, and Canada,
with installations, exhibits, events, and more at the Fairmont
Battery Wharf
(The Phoenix is
co-sponsoring!) | Thursday, June 7 -Sunday, June 10 from 10 am-6 pm | flashforwardfestival.com
Michael
Bronski | Discussion and signing of A Queer History of the United States at the Harvard Coop | Thursday,
June 7 @ 7 pm | 617.499.2000
"99% Stone" | The Theater Offensive presents a panel discussion and
performance in conjunction with the History Project's "Pride: 40 Years of
Protest and Celebration" exhibit at the Boston Center
for Adult Education | Thursday, June 7 @ 6:30 pm | thetheateroffensive.org
2012 Boston
Pride Parade | The theme of this year's parade is "Celebrating 30
Years of Worldwide Pride Movement"...big-ass pride festival right after the
parade, at City Hall. The parade kicks off in Copley Square | Saturday, June 9 @ noon | bostonpride.org/parade
Dragon Boat Festival | Two-day festival has dragon boat races and traditional dancing,music, art demo, and more, along the Charles River (near Harvard) | Saturday, June 9 from 8 am-1 pm and Sunday, June 10 from 9 am-5 pm | bostondragonboat.org
Dance
For World Community Festival | All-day, indoor-outdoor
celebration showcasing dance as a positive force for social change in Harvard Square | Saturday, June 9 from noon- 10 pm | harvardsquare.com
"Pride
and Poetry" | Celebration of poetry by gay men hosted by Boston poet
laureate Sam Cornish at the Boston Public Library | Saturday,
June 9 @ 10:30 am | sites.google.com/site/prideandpoetry2012
The
Daily Show's creator Lizz Winstead | Winstead talks about her new book
Lizz Free or Die at the Brookline Booksmith | Sunday, June 10 @ 7 pm | brooklinebooksmith.com
The
Big Quiz Thing | Live trivia with $200 cash prize at Oberon | Monday, June
11 @ 8 pm | cluboberon.com
Akashic
Record | Funk and jazz at Church | Tuesday, June 12 @ 9 pm |
churchofboston.com
Jill
Lepore | The New Yorker contributor and Harvard prof talks about
her new book Mansion Of Happiness: A History Of Life And Death at Porter Square
Books | Tuesday, June 12 @ 7 pm | portersquarebooks.com
The
Cringe + Gabriela Martina + Steve Branson Trio | Jazz at the Middle East corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge
| Thursday, June 14 @ 9 pm | mideastclub.com
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