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August 9th, 2016
Yesterday, Uganda’s Minister of Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo appeared before journalists and read a statement following last week’s police raid on a Mr/Ms/Mx Pageant that was being held as part of Uganda Pride celebrations. The U.S. Ambassador to Uganda has condemned last week’s raid, as did a coalition of Ugandan LGBT and human rights organizations. […]
August 9th, 2016
In yesterday’s episode, Rep. John Dowdy (D-TX) had introduced legislation that singled out the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. to strip it of its financial solicitation permit that had been granted by city officials the year before under the Charitable Solicitations Act. Mattachine had qualified for the permit as an educational organization advocate for the […]
August 9th, 2016
The director and comedian is best known for her role as the highly annoying Marcy D’Arcy on Married… with Children, which ran on Fox between 1987 and 1997. She also appeared in a few films, including 1985’s Fright Night and 1995’s Here Come the Munsters. But it was during her time on Married… With Children […]
August 8th, 2016
In 1974, the Portland, Oregon-based Northwest Gay Review profiled an openly gay managing editor for the University of Oregon’s daily newspaper, The Oregon Daily Emerald. That editor was Randy Shilts: “Right now, my identity is more wrapped up in being a journalist than being Gay,” said Shilts, 23-year old former chairer (sic) of Eugene Gay People’s Alliance […]
August 8th, 2016
“If these people are a charitable organization promoting homosexuality, I’ve grown up in a wrong age,” Rep. John Dowdy (D-TX) said as he opened a meeting of the House Subcommittee for the District of Columbia. The meeting was called to consider his bill to strip the Mattachine Society of Washington of its fundraising permit. The permit had […]
August 8th, 2016
The University of Illinois art gallery hosted a retrospective of David Wojnarowicz’s collages called Sex Series, in which, interspersed among larger scenes depicting social control and violence, were smaller images of sexual activity. While the series was called, Sex Series, the sexual content was hardly the point. “The images I use are just naked bodies, […]
August 8th, 2016
(d. 1986) Born in Vienna as the only child of a well-to-do Jewish family, he was already drawn to fashion when, on a 1924 family trip to Italy, “I trailed around after a lady who was obviously of ill repute. … Her attire was outrageous, and I was terribly attracted to her.” Back home, he […]
August 8th, 2016
65 YEARS AGO: (d. 1994) The pioneering gay journalist came out relatively early, while still in college at the age of 20, when he ran for student government at Portland Community College with the slogan “Come Out for Shilts.” That was in 1971, when coming out was still something of a novelty. In 1972, he transferred […]
August 7th, 2016
Philadelphia’s New Gay Life ran this profile of the Leff Bank: Twenty-three years ago, Miki and Niki, the women owners, were living together in Philadelphia. Miki had a chance to go to Paris to work for three months, but she stayed twenty-two years. She became partners in the famous Paris club, Carroll’s, where entertainers like […]
August 6th, 2016
(d. 1987) He didn’t invent pop art, but it is more his brand than anyone else’s. Andrej Varhola was born to working class Lemko/Ukrainian immigrants in Pittsburgh, where he attended an Eastern Rite Byzantine Catholic Church. Maybe it was the religious icons that filled the church which inspired him to make icons of ordinary things and […]
August 5th, 2016
Uganda government official Minister of ethics & integrity Lokodo has threaten to call for mob violence towards any @Prideuganda2016 events — Dr. Frank Mugisha (@frankmugisha) August 5, 2016 Minister Lokodo threatened to mobilize mob & large police attacks 4anyone who turns up for Pride Parade.This events suspended 4safety of all — Nicholas Opiyo (@nickopiyo) August […]
August 5th, 2016
Kasha Jaqueline’s Kuchu Times has published more details about yesterday’s police raid on a Uganda Pride event at a rooftop pub in downtown Kampala: Soon, they started confiscating people’s cameras and phones claiming they did not want people to spread the news on Facebook! The Officer in Charge, a rather arrogant man in demeanor, addressed […]
August 5th, 2016
These are tweets Pride Uganda, Kasha Jaqueline’s Kuchu Times, Frank Mugisha, and other Ugandan LGBT activists describing a raid on a Uganda Pride event as it happened Thursday night: @deryk_beatsby_deryk is the makeup artists for the Miss Pride 2016 Contestants @maronharewood @miz_cracker pic.twitter.com/cYnxsfFLnn — Pride Uganda (@Prideuganda2016) August 4, 2016 Creative wear dedicated to #orlando49 […]
August 5th, 2016
You’ll have to click on the image to read the details. It was a short cruise, running from 9:00 p.m. to midnight with music, dancing, and a cash bar. The Quad Cities actually consists of five cities straddling the banks of the Mississippi. Davenport, Iowa, with Rock Island and Moline in Illinois, were the original “Tri […]
August 4th, 2016
Sr. Jeannine Gramick co-founded New Ways Ministry in 1977 with Fr. Robert Nugent. New Ways is “a gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Catholics, and reconciliation within the larger Christian and civil communities.” Both Gramick and Nugent ran into opposition from the Vatican during the church’s rightward turn […]
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Part 1: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
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Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
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