Poly Boston

• Looking for upcoming events? Check our events calendar!
• Want to subscribe to the Poly Boston announcements list? You can sign up on the web at http://polyboston.org/lists/listinfo/announce.
• Want reading material (or advice)? Alan Wexelblat has put a collection of his poly columns online. You can also check out some articles we’ve encountered (or been in). (updated)
• Wanna buy Poly Boston stuff? We have the two T-shirt designs Jim did in 2001 for Pride available on shirts, mugs, sweatshirts, and meesepads at cafepress.com. Go to http://www.cafepress.com/polyboston/ for the “Sharing is a Family Value” designs, and http://www.cafepress.com/polyboston2/ for the “Expand Your Family” designs. (These are sold at-cost; we don’t make any money on them. They are not identical to the T-shirts we wore at pride, which were silkscreened rather than digitally transfered, but they still look good.)
• Have you been sucked into the LiveJournal vortex? Cos has set up a polyboston community on LiveJournal.
• Need a poly-clueful doctor, lawyer, therapist, or doula? Check out the Poly-Friendly Professionals list at http://polychromatic.com/pfp/. (new)
  

Poly Boston is a group for polyamorous (poly), poly-curious, or poly-friendly people in the greater Boston area. Currently, you pretty much need email access to participate, because the group organizes events via the <announce@polyboston.org> mailing list. Events include discussion groups, support groups, potlucks, parties, and other social events.

While these events provide an opportunity to meet a diverse collection of interesting, friendly people, this is not a dating service or a cruising area. If you come looking for that, you won’t have any fun, and we won’t either. But if you come looking for interesting discussion, new ideas, and a sense of community, you will probably find it, and if you treat the people you meet with respect and integrity, we will probably enjoy your company.

Information about Poly Boston

• Here’s a flyer about Poly Boston, most recently updated March 25, 2000 It described the kinds of events we had at that time. (That’s quite a bit out of date; see our event calendar for current events. We’ve edited a new version of the flyer, and I’ll get it up here as soon as I get a copy.)
• Here’s the same flyer in PostScript format for printing.
• The <announce@polyboston.org> mailing list is how we announce events.

Information about Poly Boston events

• Our events calendar is online (updated frequently)

Other groups in the Boston area

• Family Tree is a poly organization in the general Boston area that’s been around a lot longer than Poly Boston. (There’s considerable overlap — some people come to both Family Tree events and Poly Boston events.) They are less geographically concentrated than we are. Their web site is at http://ftree.contra.org/, and they also have a paper newsletter.
• A sizable fraction of the people in Poly Boston are bisexual. If you are too, you may be interested in Biversity Boston (http://www.biresource.org/biversity/) and/or the Bisexual Resource Center (http://www.biresource.org/).
• Well, it’s not quite the Boston area, but polynne (Polyamorous in Northern New England) serves poly people in Maine (and New Hampshire and Vermont, and some of us in Boston are on it, too, even if we don’t keep up with the postings very well). It has chat and discussion as well as announcements. (That link goes to their new URL, http://polynne.rulesthe.net/.)
• Jen F. announces, “We’ve recently started a ProgressivePolyProvidence group on yahoo! and will be starting to organize poly-friendly events in RI and Southern New England in the coming weeks.”

Information about polyamory in general

• http://www.polyamory.org/ is the home page of the alt.polyamory newsgroup, and probably the best single web site about polyamory.
• The alt.polyamory FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions list) is a good general introduction to polyamory.
• The Culture Supplement to the FAQ lists poly-related books (fiction and non-fiction), movies, songs, and comic books. The non-fiction book section is a good place to look for more information (much of it contradictory! :-) about what polyamory is.

Articles, essays, and columns

• The one-page Boston Magazine article “Multiply Your Love” that appeared about us in June of 2003 is now on line (along with a bunch of other short articles on the same page).
• Bobbi Keppel and Alan Hamilton have generously made available a column Bobbi wrote for Interweave World about Bobbi’s multi-adult family (with many people in it who were not necessarily lovers), and her children’s experiences in it.
• I’ve adeed another (less specifically Poly Boston-oriented) articles page. There are three articles there; two of which involve Poly Boston (or Love Without Bounds, which used to involve a lot of the same people).

Discussion-group results and handouts

• At the discussion group on June 28, 2000, we brainstormed a long list of terms for different kinds or levels of relationships.