Ganymede Arts’ “Naked Boys Singing” What you see is what you get in Naked Boys Singing, a show with a title that’s cheekily literal being staged by Ganymede Arts (making a welcome return to full-scale productions) at 1409 Playbill Cafe. But it’s also a show that eschews Chippendales-style titillation, casting attractive but not unrealistic looking men as its five singers, who belt out tunes that wink and play around with penis puns, for sure,…

>> DAM! Fest kicks of with its first night of shows featuring a dozen different bands at three venues, including New York’s A Place to Bury Strangers (don’t miss our interview with the band) and Dirty on Purpose at the Rock and Roll Hotel, Vandaveer and Julie Ocean at the Red and The Black, and Foreign Islands at DC9, among many others. Check out our guide to the DAM! highlights. >> Two film festivals open…

Today is National Coming Out Day, a day when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to be open about who they are. The annual observance began on October 11, 1988, exactly one year after the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. (The first one was held October 14, 1979.) While there aren’t usually major events to commemorate the day, there are a couple of local events that coincide with…