Beth Greenfield

Billy Eichner is the guy who rails, loudly and freely, against all the things you always wanted to shout about—be it vapid Fashion Week, political hypocrites or the passing of Proposition 8. But when Eichner rants, it's with such deliciously wicked humor that you might actually forget what you were so pissed off about to begin with. First thrust into the comic spotlight with his Creation Nation—a weekly live talk show in which Eichner (with costar Robin Taylor) was the character Billy Willing and interviewed celebs from Cynthia Nixon to Joan Rivers with a no-holds-barred wit—he's since cohosted Bravo's A-List Awards Red Carpet Show and written for Logo's upcoming season of the Big Gay Sketch Show. And this week Eichner, 30, returns to the stage with his first solo show, Billy Eichner: Gay, White and Terrified. We spoke to the Queens native by phone to get a sneak preview. What inspired the new show?Two things: me watching a lot of Chris Rock and the whole Prop 8 thing. I looked around and I said, Okay, we have this great President who was more than anything a symbol of the progression of civil rights in our country. And even this great civil rights symbol could not actually come out and give us the word marriage. Even now that we've started to get marriage rights in all these different states, still it's been mum's the word from Obama. As long as he remains silent about it, it's frustrating for people in the gay community who support him. How does Chris Rock figure in?I just

Yeah, yeah, "Breast is best." Tell us something we don't know. Like, where can a motivated mom turn for help with sore nipples, a lazy latcher and other common troubles? What do you do when you're out in public and your infant is screaming for a milk fix? (At least he gets the "on demand" part.) Then there's the less acute but still nagging problem of finding a non-dowdy top, equipped with nursing flaps, to wear for a nice dinner out with your baby—and your infant. Turns out, when it comes to nursing support, NYC is stacked. The health department recently expanded its efforts to encourage the practice, publishing an info-packed PDF pamphlet, The New York City Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding, and inviting moms to call 311 for instant access to the National Breastfeeding Helpline. Now that's what we call looking out for our girls! Below, an essential and nonjudgmental guide to nursing in the city. Support "If it's so natural, how come it's so freakin' hard?" The challenges some women face with nursing can be one of the biggest shocks of new motherhood. Bring your tempest in a D-cup here: La Leche League InternationalMost likely the only help available when your mom was nursing, the 50-year-old La Leche League remains the country's best-known breastfeeding advocacy group. The nonprofit was founded to encourage breastfeeding at a time when it was practiced in the U.S. by only 20 percent of mothers (blame the original Mad Men). Today the league has chapters around the world—and on

Every once in a while, popping open a tiny jar of brightly colored baby mush can be...unsettling. You don't get your sustenance from processed blobs, after all. Why should your tot? Don't worry, this isn't where we admonish you for taking the easy way out and then implore you to start pureeing your own plums and carrots. But serving fresh meals to your munchkin is easier than you might think, thanks to a number of organic baby-food brands available locally. This writer decided to put them to the test, by both tasting them myself and using my one-year-old daughter, Lula, as a guinea pig. She's usually up for anything when it comes to eating, and for this experiment she did not disappoint. We started with some of the offerings from the Brooklyn-based frozen, organic baby food pioneer, Happy Baby (happybabyfood.com). Tempting flavors include Baby Dahl (red lentils blended with veggies), Mama Grain (quinoa whipped with black beans and banana) and Grrreat Greens (spinach, mango and pear), as well as straight-up mashed pears or carrots. The packaging is genius, with two flavors in each box, divided into 12 individual 1oz cubes. The box with Baby Dahl and Mama Grain was our favorite: The consistency was nice and thick, like pt, and the flavors fresh and unique. Although I could've eaten the whole package, Lula inexplicably turned up her nose at the lentils; however, she devoured the black-bean blend with excited gurgles. And I had to hide the brand's Baby Puffs snacks—little o's mad