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.
Logan Donahoo’s A Field Guide to the Gays features a hilarious take on the history and modern-day culture of the gay community.
With his very presence, he creates a comfortable environment where he reaches out to the straight, bi, trans, gay in all of us. He pinpoints certain situations where one might encounter a bear or a twink out in the wild and he tells you what to expect.
France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate.
Hollande’s office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck down a challenge to the law and ruled it in line with France’s constitution.
The 2013 AIDS Walk benefiting Hope & Help May 18 2013.
Walkers traveled a route that started Lake Eola, went up Washington, down Orange, up Central blvd, down Parramore to Church st., back up Orange, and back to Eola via Washington. It was a pretty hot morning.
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A 18-year old girl Sebastian River High School cheerleader and basketball player was kicked out of school, arrested and now faces two felony charges for what she says was a consensual lesbian relationship with a 15-year old fellow student, according to Indian River County Jail records and a Change.org petition created by her father Steven Hunt.
Kaitlyn Hunt, of Indian River, was allegedly outed as gay by her basketball coach after the coach learned she and another player were dating, according to a post to Watermark’s Facebook page. The coach kicked Hunt off the team and alerted both sets of parents, the elder Hunt wrote. Indian River police recorded a conversation between the teens, which was used as a basis to file charges. Hunt was arrested February 16 and released a day later on $5,000 bail, according to the Indian River County Jail.
Just in case you forgot that you can still be murdered in cold blood for being gay…
A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man’s face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, in a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. New York’s police commissioner called the killing a hate crime.
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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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