For the first time in St. Pete Pride’s 11 year history, the community had an opportunity to select its own grand marshals. On May 16, Pride shared the results of a month-long online voting campaign that generated nearly 4,000 votes.
Mark Bias and Carrie West, owners of MC Film Fest and founders of the GaYbor Coalition, Susan McGrath, president of the Stonewall Democrats of Pinellas County, and Metro Wellness and Community Centers were each chosen in each of their respective categories.
A right-wing historian shot himself dead in front of hundreds of tourists at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris today, apparently in protest at France’s legalization of same-sex marriage.
Dominique Venner, who had recently been campaigning against gay marriage in France, is said to have calmly walked past the crowds milling around the 850-year-old Cathedral, one of the most popular tourist sites in the world, before taking out an automatic pistol.
Gov. Pat Quinn says Illinois has a chance to make history before the end of the legislative session this month on the issue of same-sex marriage.
The a proposal on the table that would make Illinois the 13th state to legalize gay marriage.
A man has been arrested in Puerto Rico for a Twitter post that threatened a gay activist and made a reference to the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI said Monday.
Joseph Morales Serrano was taken into custody at his home in San Juan on a charge of cyberbullying for allegedly posting the threatening message on May 6, according to Special Agent Moises Quinones, a spokesman for the FBI in the U.S. island territory.
Less is more in this heart-wrenching yet funny, solo act by Seattle performer/writer Yana Kesala.
Inspired by her mother’s life as The Ukrainian Dentist’s Daughter, Kesala plays a young woman named Maya fretting over whether or not her husband-to-be has stood her up at the alter on New Years Eve, 1967. As Maya waits, flashbacks from her past are revealed to the audience with Kesala in character as Maya, her mother and a Ukrainian widow living in Ohio with a knack for painting. We see a young girl smitten with her doting father, a blossoming woman with dreams of being a fashion designer, and pressures from a mother on her daughter to court and find a husband among other coming-of-age vignettes.
Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government’s nervousness over a growing civil society movement and demands for stronger individual rights.
The man, identified only by his surname Xiang, was detained following the Friday event in the city of Changsha and ordered to serve 12 days in a detention center for organizing an illegal march, according to a notice on the local police’s microblog account.
Onomatopoeia is a musical gem worth making the trek from the Fringe headquarters in Lock Haven Park to The Venue (Black) on Virginia Drive. Understated yet mesmerizing with its rustic, 1930s Depression-era set design and Americana sound, the show bills itself as a hobo show with music.
Miss Laney Jones’s singing narration as The Troubadour accompanied by the instrumental group Against the Grain lulls this Hobo adventure along with a delectable soulfulness.
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its controversial membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.
The proposal to be put before the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA’s National Council on Thursday, at a meeting in Grapevine, Texas, would retain the Scouts’ long-standing ban on gays serving in adult leadership positions.
Wisconsin’s neighbor Minnesota may have become the 12th state in the country to legalize same-sex unions on Tuesday. But gay marriage is not on the legislative agenda in Wisconsin, and that’s not expected to change in the near future.
“I just don’t think it’s very likely in this state anytime soon,” said Joe Heim, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse political scientist, told Post-Crescent Media. “It’s pretty clear that public opinion in the United States is leaning toward gay marriage (but) I just don’t see Wisconsin joining that (group) anytime soon.”
In this raw look at the real-life relationships, Christel Bartelse (Significant Me) and Bob Brader expertly portray four characters each in eight duets that come full-circle.
Circle is a daisy chain of open relationships, affairs, BDSM, sexuality, babies and lies that is funny, poignant, and honest.
My Pussy is Purrin’ Again is part one-woman band, part memoir, part stand-up comedy. 78-year-old New Yorker D’Yan Forest gives both a titillating and endearing performance as she sings and zings about her many pussy purrin’ and not-so-pussy purrin’ adventures across the globe.
The show opens with Forest singing an ode to bisexuality as she plays the ukulele and it takes off from there. Amidst the musical instruments, jokes and sexual frankness, Forest shines most when she makes herself vulnerable to the audience revealing her struggles to stay true to herself in spite of her family, romantic partners and societal norms.
What if God was a hairy-legged, barefoot, Scottish drag-queen comedian in a floral business suit with a drinking problem? Writer and performer Michael Delamont answers that question with God is a Scottish Drag Queen. Think Mrs. Doubtfire crossed with Dame Edna.
In this original, side-splitting stand-up act, you’ll learn that God has a wicked sense of humor and a power suit from the 80′s.
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Watermark was founded by publisher Tom Dyer in Orlando in 1994, and expanded to Tampa Bay in 1995. Dyer is an attorney, former board member of the Metropolitan Business Association and Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and current advisory board member of the Harvey Milk Foundation.
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