Style from the Streets: ATKM and DITC reinvent lesbian fashion

By Lya Carrera
Curve Magazine Contributor
Published Magazine: Curve
Published Date: September 2008, Volume 18#7

Lesbian style has come a long way over the years. Women have gone from looking masculine to androgynous to punk to feminine to […]

August 15, 2008 - 3:58 pm

Dani Campbell fanning the flames

By Lya Carrera
Bay Windows Contributor
Published Newspaper: Bay Windows
Online Version Published Date: March 6, 2008
Online Verison Printed Date: March 6, 2008

Tila Tequila may not have chosen Dani Campbell […]

March 6, 2008 - 1:17 pm

Artist Alejandra Vernon - A woman of faith

By Lya Carrera
Andover Townsman Contributor
Published Newspaper: Andover Townsman
Online Version Published Date: March 1, 2007
Online Version Printed Date: March 13, 2007

Artist Alejandra Vernon survived a fatal fire in […]

March 1, 2007 - 12:00 pm

Discover Wellesley Online It’s a Mouse Click Away!

by Lya Carrera ‘92
Published Newsletter: The Wellesley Connection:
Wellesley College Alumnae of Boston Newsletter
Published Date: Winter/Spring 2007, Volume 15, Issue 2

When I graduated from Wellesley College […]

January 17, 2007 - 12:00 pm

Connecting with ALANA

by Wu Zhou ‘97
Published Newsletter: The Wellesley Connection:
Wellesley College Alumnae of Boston Newsletter
Published Date: Winter/Spring 2007, Volume 15, Issue 2

Lya Carrera ‘92 contributed to this article and is also an ALANA committee member

While the 2003 motion picture Mona Lisa Smile portrayed Wellesley College students in 1953 as predominantly privileged Anglo-Saxon women, the reality of today’s […]

January 16, 2007 - 12:00 pm

Ethnically Diverse and Inexpensive Eateries in Waltham

By Lya Carrera
EDGE Entertainment Contributor
Published Web site: EDGE
Online Version Published Date: May 23, 2006
Online Version Printed Date: June 19, 2006

Thinking of trying out a new ethnic restaurant? […]

May 23, 2006 - 12:00 pm

Star on the Rise for Local Queer Singer :: Joya

By Lya Carrera
EDGE Entertainment Contributor
Published Web site: EDGE
Online Version Date: May 15, 2006
Online Version Printed Date: June 10, 2006

There is an old expression that says - don’t judge a book by its cover. And this would certainly apply to Joanna Y. Abbott.

Standing a little over 5 feet 5 inches tall, Abbott is slender with a […]

May 15, 2006 - 12:00 pm

Massachusetts Filmmaker Makes a Difference with her ‘Gay Marriage’ Documentary

By Lya Carrera
EDGE Entertainment Contributor
Published Web site: EDGE
Online Version Date: May 10, 2006
Online Version Printed Date: June 10, 2006

Although the gay marriage debate continues in Massachusetts, history […]

May 10, 2006 - 12:00 pm

Tristan and Isolde (Widescreen Edition)

By Lya Carrera
EDGE Entertainment Contributor
Published Web site: EDGE
Online Version Published Date: May 7, 2006
Online Version Printed Date: June 19, 2006
Rated: PG-13
Grade: A
The challenges of love or forbidden […]

May 7, 2006 - 12:00 pm

The 22nd Annual Boston Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival

By Lya Carrera
EDGE Entertainment Contributor
Published Web site: EDGE
Online Version Published Date: May 3, 2006
Online Version Printed Date: June 26, 2006

Listen up movie fans. It’s that time of […]

May 3, 2006 - 12:00 pm

‘The Notebook Girls’ by Julia Baskin, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs

By Lya Carrera
EDGE Entertainment Contributor
Published Web site: EDGE
Online Version Published Date: April 13, 2006
Online Version Printed Date: May 1, 2006

There has been a lot written about the […]

April 13, 2006 - 12:00 pm

Television Features ‘All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise’

By Lya Carrera
EDGE Entertainment Contributor
Published Web site: EDGE
Online Version Published Date: April 6, 2006
Online Version Printed Date: April 6, 2006

As the debate of gay marriage, gay parenting, […]

April 6, 2006 - 12:00 pm

Daniela Sea of ‘The L Word’ Rides the Wave of Acting

By Lya Carrera
EDGE Entertainment Contributor
Published Web site: EDGE
Online Version Published Date: March 28, 2006
Online Version Printed Date: April 4, 2006

Ageless, Daniela Sea of Showtime’s The L Word […]

March 28, 2006 - 12:00 pm

New England focuses on gay marriage

By Lya Carrera
In Newsweekly Contributor
Published Newspaper: In Newsweekly
Published Date: January 25, 2006, Issue 15 23

MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE POLITICS POSE THE GREATEST TESTS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY, BUT RACES ACROSS THE REGION ALSO PROMINENTLY […]

January 25, 2006 - 12:00 pm

Queer Soup takes it ‘Home’

By Lya Carrera
In Newsweekly Contributor
Published Newspaper: In Newsweekly
Published Date: January 18, 2006, Issue 15 22

NEW GLBT THEATRICAL TROUPE TAKES ON GENDER IDENTITY, FAMILY AND GENERATIONAL ISSUES IN LATEST FARE, OPENING AT THE BCA […]

January 18, 2006 - 12:00 pm

Mass. anti-gay marriage petition marches forward

By Lya Carrera
In Newsweekly Contributor
Published Newspaper: In Newsweekly
Published Date: December 28, 2005, Issue 15 19

SIGNATURES EXPECTED TO BE APPROVED BY END OF YEAR; GLAD’S COURT CHALLENGE EXPECTED IN JAN., WITH EARLIEST LEGISLATIVE CONSIDERATION […]

December 28, 2005 - 12:00 pm

A transgender person’s call to minister

By Lya Carrera
In Newsweekly Contributor
Published Newspaper: In Newsweekly
Published Date: December 21, 2005, Issue 15 18

WITH PRESBYTERIAN RULES UNCLEAR AND CHURCH DIVIDED, SARA J. HERWIG FACES SIGNIFICANT OBSTACLES TO ORDINATION

There is nothing typical about […]

December 21, 2005 - 12:00 pm

NH gay marriage report decrided as ‘homophobic’

By Lya Carrera
In Newsweekly Contributor
Published Newspaper: In Newsweekly
Published Date: December 14, 2005, Issue 15 17

LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION REPORT PLACES EMPHASIS ON TESTIMONY FROM EX-GAYS AND ON DOCTOR WHO CALLS HOMOSEXUALITY ‘UNHEALTHY’; GAY SUPPORTERS OUTRAGED

Amid […]

December 14, 2005 - 12:00 pm