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Hey everyone!  Welcome to another edition of BGHV Weekend.  In case you missed it this week, President Obama issued a memorandum to his health secretary ordering him to issue new rules aimed at making it easier for gays and lesbians to make medical decisions for their partners.  The President's order - affecting all health care [...]

So you may have noticed that BGHV Weekend looks a bit different this week.  In the interest of giving you guys a better look at what's going on - not just this week, but several weeks down the road - we here at BGHV have decided to make better use of our calendar.  Sure we've [...]

By Jay Blotcher, BGHV Theater Critic & Culture Vulture If you consider Shakespeare the theatrical equivalent of eating spinach, time to think again. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck has mounted a production of the tragedy Macbeth that is a feast for the eyes and mind. Sure, there's lofty speeches and the pageantry. But [...]

With the Spring weather here in full force - and the rosebuds popping out all over - we here at Big Gay Hudson Valley wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that now is a great time of year to show your Pride! Yes, we know that June is Pride Month, but with porch [...]

From the Sunday April 4th Edition of The Poughkeepsie Journal comes a profile of the Hudson Valley's newest hit gay sports icons...the Chilly Willies dodgeball team.  Way to go, guys!  If you're interested in joining the fun, drop the guys a line. It's not free climbing, auto racing — not anything remotely involving life and [...]

Well can we call a spade a spade or what!?  In shocking-to-some news, the always yummy Ricky Martin announced via his website this week that he's gay.  Yeah, duh.  We're proud of our boy, his babies and his tasty boyfriend.  We're just shocked this came as news... Fresh off our visit to the NYC GLBT [...]

Fresh off our visit to the NYC GLBT Expo, we had the amazing chance recently to showcase the Hudson Valley's offerings to over 15,000 visitors to the annual show.  Our visit and efforts to the event were supported by several local gay-owned and -friendly businesses, so we'd like to invite all of you to visit [...]

We've had  a busy gay week here at BGHV!  Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say "hi" at our booth at last weekend's GLBT Expo in NYC.  Along with the support of 40 gay-owned and -friendly businesses in the area, we reached over 15,000 people who are looking to visit or move to our [...]