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"Like every so-called sin, whoever decided Pride deadly never had a moment to be proud of in their so-called life...however the prison they left behind to keep the heroes from being heralded is something surely of every man's Envy" ~ Author Unknown

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Exploring Elsewhere : The Fortune Teller, 50 Years of Faggotry in 5 Minutes by Leo Herrera

Exploring Elsewhere : The Fortune Teller, 50 Years of Faggotry in 5 Minutes by Leo Herrera

A five minute splattering of iconic moments, performances and personalities in the more recent history of homosexual culture from stark to colourful, celebratory to sodomighty,  and  featuring enemies and allies, viral video stars to pop stars, shade, transexuals and the AIDS crisis.  There is a lot covered in this short film featuring new footage of...
Exploring Elsewhere : Gender Pioneer Artemis Smith LIVE @ Jefferson Market Library June 5th!

Exploring Elsewhere : Gender Pioneer Artemis Smith LIVE @ Jefferson Market Library June 5th!

She Called “Come Out of the Closet” Come Hear Gender Pioneer Artemis Smith Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 6 – 8 p.m. Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Avenue, New York, NY Come meet and hear the 1950’s homophile activist and best-selling lesbian pulp fiction author Artemis Smith give a futurist talk entitled “Somewhere Way Over The...
Exploring Elsewhere : An Introduction to The Devotion Project from Filmmaker Tony Osso

Exploring Elsewhere : An Introduction to The Devotion Project from Filmmaker Tony Osso

We recently came across this fantastic short film series from The Devotion Project through the amazing app that is Flipboard and are so enamoured with it, we had to share it with the world.  Longtime friend Tony Osso is the filmmaker and mastermind behind the documentary project and we are honoured to know him!  Kudos...
Gay Activists Attacked in Tbilisi - Is Your Love Strong Enough? #LGBT #sodomighty

Gay Activists Attacked in Tbilisi – Is Your Love Strong Enough? #LGBT #sodomighty

If contained and redirected, the amount of energy in the sheer force of hatred dispersed by those opposed to homosexuality with violent protests and vindictive manipulations of power could provide electricity to every home, hut and third world village in the entire world for a thousand years… Conservatives Attack Gay Activists At Rally In Tbilisi...
Exploring Elsewhere : The Last Words of Harvey Milk #HarveyMilkDay May 22nd

Exploring Elsewhere : The Last Words of Harvey Milk #HarveyMilkDay May 22nd

Today is Harvey Milk Day and if the gay rights hero and icon were still alive today he would have turned 83.  Supervisor Harvey Milk recorded a message to be played should he ever be assasinated…and he was.  Below is a video with the recorded message dubbed over images of San Francisco during the time...
DO SOMETHING : March in Response To Hate Crimes Against The LGBT Community Monday, May 20th

DO SOMETHING : March in Response To Hate Crimes Against The LGBT Community Monday, May 20th

  A lot of attention and energy is surely focused on same sex marriage and marriage equality but just because members of the LGBT Community are able to profess their love legally, it certainly does not mean we are invincible.  Early this morning, the third tragic hate crime against a member of the LGBT Community...
On H.O.D. TV : The Language of Love, A Séance of Young, Taboo Desire by The Voices Project

On H.O.D. TV : The Language of Love, A Séance of Young, Taboo Desire by The Voices Project

  There is not much that can be said about the powerful short (almost) one man show short film that is “The Language of Love” without the burden of a million cliches and sentimental sugary words.  All that aside, The Voices Project, based in Australia has captured the magical static that reverberates in every teenager’s...
Exploring Elsewhere : Living With Pride : Ruth Ellis @ 100 by Yvonne Welbon

Exploring Elsewhere : Living With Pride : Ruth Ellis @ 100 by Yvonne Welbon

As the civil rights movement for the LGBTQ Community keeps on moving forward,  we use our column Exploring Elsewhere to shed some light on iconic members of the past and present along with events, ideas and concepts often times ignored by major media.   This is a snippet of a documentary featuring one of the...
Sodomighty Soldier : Flashback 10.09.10 Queer Rising TAKE BACK THE NIGHT MARCH : Caleb Sings At Stonewall

Sodomighty Soldier : Flashback 10.09.10 Queer Rising TAKE BACK THE NIGHT MARCH : Caleb Sings At Stonewall

As a conclusion to the TAKE BACK THE NIGHT MARCH organized by Queer Rising on Saturday, October 9, 2010 in reaction and response to the staggering rise in gay bashings, gay bullying and gay suicides, young Caleb (a son of two lesbians) sang a song as he strummed his guitar in which he wrote immediately...
Pucker Up For The World's Largest Queer Kiss At The Stroke Of Midnight (CST) on Valentine's Day, February 14th!

Pucker Up For The World’s Largest Queer Kiss At The Stroke Of Midnight (CST) on Valentine’s Day, February 14th!

We zapped this straight from the event page on Facebook and wanted to share the smooch!   Check it out and stock up on chapstick, lip gloss and binaca!   It is a worldwide event so let everyone you think would want to be a part of such a beautiful celebration of the magical power...
Bachelor(ette) Auction Featured At First Ever Valentine's Vamp @ Rebel Saturday, February 9th to benefit The New Bronx LGBTQ Center!

Bachelor(ette) Auction Featured At First Ever Valentine’s Vamp @ Rebel Saturday, February 9th to benefit The New Bronx LGBTQ Center!

Ladies and gentlemen, Singles who are ready to mingles and those of you in one of those ‘open relationships’…get all dressed up because you have somewhere to go on Saturday, February 9th.   Just in time for one of the most loved and hated holidays (depending upon your relationship status of course),  an amazing celebrity...
Exploring Elsewhere : What Did The Transgender Day of Rememberance Mean To You and Me?

Exploring Elsewhere : What Did The Transgender Day of Rememberance Mean To You and Me?

  This year’s “Transgender Day Of Rememberance” certainly crept up on us and it just proves that although ‘Transgendered” people are making quite a decent amount of headway in the realm of their own civil rights war, the media is still somehow avoiding the topic for the most part and obviously the budget for spreading...
The Dutch simply have it right with "Everyone Is Different", a fantastic PSA for LGBT Youth

The Dutch simply have it right with “Everyone Is Different”, a fantastic PSA for LGBT Youth

We stumbled upon this through our tumblr page and after taking the less than three minutes to watch it…we were totally enamoured by the complexity of this video beneath it’s utter simplicity and commend The Dutch website for being so far ahead of the game.  The website may be hard to read unless you speak...
Exploring Elsewhere : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's "The Time Has Come"

Exploring Elsewhere : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s “The Time Has Come”

We caught wind of this brilliant and powerful speech a little late but just in time for Pride Month as well as adding another edition to our Exploring Elsewhere Series this month.  The powerful speech from Ban Ki-moon has been given a beautiful sonic backdrop as well as a very strong set of images.   The...

The Irreverent Hillary Clinton Delivers An Inspiring Video Message for Pride Month!

Secretary Clinton Delivers a Video Message for Pride Month Never has a politician in such a grand position with an insane amount of influence over so many different people from so many different countries, walks of life, religions, creeds made such powerfully intelligent and provocative statements in support of LGBT people in history!   Hillary...

Exploring Elsewhere : on h.o.d. tv : Nuclear Family – Rise (free download)

Check out a feel-good synth pop hymn for the queer revolution by Nuclear Family aka Nikolaj Tange Lange.   The accompanying video clip is chock full of sodomighty images throughout queer history! It’s hypnotic and awesome and uplifting!   My queer brothers and sisters let’s RISE! Happy LGBTlmnopq Pride! FREE DOWNLOAD

“Confessions of a Former Homophobe” by Bobby DeJesús

Our friend AB Lugo showed us a status update on Facebook from a friend of his in reference to President Obama’s announcement in support of marriage equality.   We asked whether it was possible to post it here on The House.  He said yes.   Just warning everyone…it’s going to be pretty political around these...

Do Something : ACT UP 25th Anniversary Direct Action at City Hall Wednesday, April 25th 11:00am

ACT UP is calling on local, state, and federal legislators to “give Wall Street the FiST,” which is needed to fill AIDS funding gaps and — once and for all — provide universal healthcare in the US. It’s time for effective healthcare to be made available to everyone — to the 99%, not just the...

Chauncey Chat : The Inspirational Occupation of BAGLY’s own Kurtlan Massarsky

Chauncey Chat with BAGLY’s Director of Development,  Kurtlan Massarsky After much back and forth amidst the scheduling obstacles that exist between two busy men, Chauncey was finally able to tie longtime friend and fellow philanthropist Kurtlan Massarsky down to have a chat.   (That’s him up there on the far left with the big, happy...

SOS: Save Our Sex – a discussion on Sex, Taboos and Gay issues @ The New XL Nightclub 1/31

SOS: Save Our Sex- a discussion on Sex, Taboos and Gay issues @ The New XL Nightclub 512 West 42nd Street Tuesday, January 31st 5:30pm – 9:00pm We are extremely excited to attend this very interesting event being held at the brand new XL Nightclub opening up this week…adorning Hell’s Kitchen and the gay community...

The Gay Rights Movement & Second Class Citizens

Pretty recently…this particular video has been making the rounds on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.  The video is quite an eye opener and features tons of negative propaganda shaken not stirred with news reports and video clips of gays who have been murdered, committed suicide and many of the other few ups and many, many downs...
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