Daily Archives: December 9, 2014
GOP Uses Religious Freedom Bill To Cover Up LGBT Discrimination
GOP Uses Religious Freedom Bill To Cover Up LGBT Discrimination
"Michigan’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed a controversial religious freedom bill, teeing up what civil liberties advocates fear will be another wave of GOP-backed…
LGBT Leaders in Tech
LGBT Leaders in Tech
Vivienne Ming, discusses her unique experiences as a transgender neuroscientist and entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley.
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These Stars Want LGBTQ Youth to Know Their Lives Matter
These Stars Want LGBTQ Youth to Know Their Lives Matter
Stars including Paul Wesley, Dan Bucatinsky, Matt McGorry, and more shared why they’re passionate about LGBTQ youth and the battle against bullying on the red carpet of TrevorLIVE L.A.
Jase Peeples
The Golden Girls Xmas Drag Show Is All Sorts Of Holiday Magic
The Golden Girls Xmas Drag Show Is All Sorts Of Holiday Magic
The holiday season is all about traditions that bring us closer together, and while there are plenty of intimate celebrations we share with our relatives or close friends, it’s rare to find an event that leaves you feeling connected to total strangers. That’s what makes San Francisco’s ninth annual Xmas all-drag Golden Girls show so extra special.
Four formidable queens bring to life two full episodes of The Golden Girls on stage, proving definitively that Dorothy, Sophia, Rose and Blanche were made to be played in drag (as if there was any doubt).
This year, the girls chose “From Here To The Pharmacy” in which Blanche has no memory of her former lover who’s returned home from the Persian Gulf and “Journey To The Center Of Attention” which pits Dorothy against Blanche as the most popular patron of Blanche’s favorite bar, The Rusty Anchor. Meanwhile, Sophia decides to throw a living wake for herself. Hilarity naturally ensues.
And while the performances were rock solid, the laughs constant and uncontrollable, and the costumes justly fabulous, the real magic of the show was the audience.
The crowd packed every seat of the cozy 500-seat Victoria Theater in the Mission District, painting a picture of something that’s not always easy to find — a real community. Straight, gay (OK, mostly gay), young and old all shuffled in with the only clear intention being to have a damn good time.
Between scenes, pianist Tom Shaw played Christmas classics, and without fail, the audience burst into impromptu singalongs each time, belting out the words to Rudolph and White Christmas like it was the first chance they’d ever had to sing them.
It’s the fans who’ve made the event what it is, supporting the show since its 2006 inception in the front parlor of a Victorian Mansion in the Western Addition through increasingly larger venues.
And it’s never too late to jump on the bandwagon. Last year every show sold out, and this year won’t be any different. But you’ve still got time to get last minute tickets — the show runs Thurs-Sun through December 21st.
If you’re tired of the same old holiday mush, get your ass in one of those seats and pass the cheesecake.
The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes runs through Dec. 21 at the Victoria Theater and stars Pollo Del Mar (Rose), Cookie Dough (Sophia), Heklina (Dorothy) & Matthew Martin (Blanche). For tickets, click here.
Dan Tracer
NEWS: The Cambridges, 'America's Worst Gay Power Couple', Torture, Barbra Streisand
NEWS: The Cambridges, 'America's Worst Gay Power Couple', Torture, Barbra Streisand
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge meet Queen Bey and the new Sinatra.
And King (LeBron) James, though he evidently breached royal protocol.
Hugh Jackman shows off and pumps some iron.
Justin Timberlake will be the only former N*Sync-er not present at Lance Bass’ wedding.
Jason Momoa bares his bod while vacationing in Brazil.
Meanwhile, his Aquaman will apparently be “bad-ass.”
Out country singer Ty Herndon makes first public appearance with boyfriend.
The Daily Beast publishes scathing piece on Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, calling them “America’s worst gay power couple”: “Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats. And now the media has finally noticed….In just the past two months, one half of this pair managed to single-handedly destroy a storied journalistic institution [The New Republic], while the other suffered a crushing electoral defeat in New York’s 19th Congressional District.
Disney/Pixar divulges plot details for Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory.
Sons of Anarchy may be ending, but shirtless Charlie Hunnam GIFs are forever.
Senate Intelligence Committee releases report on the C.I.A.’s use of torture, faulting the agency with “brutality” and “deceit.” From the NYT: “The long-delayed report, which took five years to produce and is based on more than six million internal agency documents, is a sweeping indictment of the C.I.A.’s operation and oversight of a program carried out by agency officials and contractors in secret prisons around the world in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It also provides a macabre accounting of some of the grisliest techniques that the C.I.A. used to torture and imprison terrorism suspects.”
The latest James Bond film, Spectre, has begun filming.
Macaulay Culkin is in a “pizza-themed” band?
Nicole Kidman likes to marry a person then get to know them.
Sy-Fy is working on Superman prequel series Krypton.
Sen. James Infhofe (R-OK), most likely the next chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, thinks Barbra Streisand invented climate change.
God help us! This man is going to head the Committee on the Environment in the US Senate. Like giving a fox the keys to the chicken coop
— Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) December 3, 2014
Sean Mandell
How The Religious Right Talks About LGBT People
How The Religious Right Talks About LGBT People
The next time some right-wing victim complex Christian conservative crybaby denies that the religious right consistently denigrates LGBT people, show them this video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBUe9nmxS0&feature=youtube_gdata
{12.09.14} #Brother2Brother… Is a support group named in the honor of the late, great activist & poet, #EssexHemphill powerful literature for black gay men. We meet twice a month, every 2nd & 3rd Thursday of each month from 630p-900p at #DENIM (6925-B1
Egyptian Police Arrest, Humiliate 'Gay' Men at Cairo Bathhouse
Egyptian Police Arrest, Humiliate 'Gay' Men at Cairo Bathhouse
A late-night raid of a Cairo bathhouse included a humiliating march in the nude to police vans outside.
Thom Senzee
www.advocate.com/world/2014/12/09/egyptian-police-arrest-humiliate-gay-men-cairo-bathhouse