Poly Boston

• To get involved, join the Poly Boston announcements list. That’s where everything we do gets announced. You can sign up on the web at http://polyboston.org/lists/listinfo/announce.
• If you like, once you're on the announcements list, you can then join the chat list, say hi, and introduce yourself
• Looking for upcoming events? Check our events calendar! (For large events outside the Boston area, you should also check Alan M’s list of poly events (new).)
• 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)
• 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/
  

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 (That’s quite a bit out of date; see our event calendar for current events.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/).
• A bit west of us there’s a Western Mass poly group which has Yahoo! groups for events and for discussion. (new)
• And south of us there’s a Polyamory Connecticut group. (new)

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.

Blogs

• Opening Up is Tristan Taormino’s blog associated with her book of the same name.

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.