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...
Please Help a Brother Out: Come Fund Top Surgery for Bryan By now practically everyone in the Queer Nation has heard of the really unfortunate incidents that occurred in March of this year on the Washington Mall during the Supreme Court arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). But do you know the real people who...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WHEN: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2011 at 4:00 PM (march at 4:30) WHERE: City Hall, Manhattan on Centre St in front of Brooklyn Bridge Promenade DIRECTIONS: 4, 5, 6, J, or Z, and get off at Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Join the Brooklyn Community Pride Center as they walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn across the iconic Brooklyn...
Given the current exciting possibility of the gay marriage bill passing on Friday, could this weekend’s party at Stonewall be a celebration of unparalleled heights?! You’ll have to be there to find out! Queer Rising is this generation’s Act Up of sorts, fighting tirelessly to end discrimination and destroy inequality. Held once...
we are absolutely dumbfounded about this story. it is not only the ignorance and immorality of those in favour of the removal of this plea to protect gays, lesbians, bisexuals and trangendered people around the world that we can blame…it is also the apathy of the absent members of the UN whose vote could have...
The Legalize Trans* campaign is an artistic and educational campaign intended to create dialogue and draw attention to the lack of inclusivity within the popular American Apparel “Legalize Gay” campaign. Legalize Trans* serves to emphasize the need for Transgender inclusivity within the dominant national Lesbian and Gay rights movement, and provide public education and resources...
we here at the house have fallen slightly behind in our duties and offer you not one but two episodes of ‘that smarts’ featuring house sibling gusty winds and her cohort connie cat. the ladies who brunch are at it again with their trademark brand of retro current fantasticness and we hope you enjoy everything...
we’re sure there will be detractors to this survey because as a homosexual entity our percentages of cynicism is almost part of our genetic makeup (and often times completely warranted) but just like the facts of life…you take the good…you take the bad (you know the song by now). we recommend taking the time to...
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities. Their mission statement has been consistent over the past six years: “The mission...
here is the third group of extremely glbt heavy scrapbook posts. before stonewall, unfortunately not common knowledge, the mattachine society existed. here is a brief history about the society and some other information that just scratches the surface of one of the unsung heroes of the gay liberation movement. The primary goals of the society...
the closer it gets to the big day, GLBT Pride, the more and more we get excited for the rush of power and emotion we feel during the parade, watching mothers walk proudly with their gay sons, watching same sex senior citizens slowly make their way down broadway after being together for over half a...
we’re excited to present yet another episode of house favourite ‘that smarts’ featuring house sibling gusty winds and the irreverant connie cat. last episode was ‘all about gusty’ and we were welcomed into the mind of a superstar quickly and painlessly. this time around, connie and gusty are found in the kitchen with gusty sharing...
this story has been on many a blog i have noticed but i personally found it on seattle’s SLOG blog. i have some prefacing and preaching to do first though… obviously the story that follows is enraging. it seems as things get better in one area of equal rights, they get worse in another corner....
more transmissions from house of dandridge speed blogging sibling kris avalon. click the new kris avalon banner (designed by chauncey d) to be transported to his world of a blog… GLAAD UP IN ARMS OVER TICKED OFF TRANNIES WITH KNIVES Since it’s a slow business week at GLAAD, where they should be spending their time...
click the banner above to visit his blog for full on kris avalon action! KISH FANS TO PROTEST ONE LIFE TO LIVE FIRING Fans of “One Life to Live’s” gay couple Kyle Lewis (Brett Claywell) and Oliver Fish (Scott Evans), better known as “Kish,” will rally in Times Square to protest their favorite characters being...