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A book by gay activist Cleve Jones, a rally against Breitbart, and an ABC series on immigration are this week’s highlights.
Daily Archives: March 10, 2017
Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade Allows Gay Vets to March
Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade Allows Gay Vets to March
In an emergency meeting, organizers decided to reverse a decision regarding the participation of OutVets — though the group has yet to accept.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/3/10/boston-st-patricks-day-parade-allows-gay-vets-march
The GLAAD Wrap: 'One Day at a Time' renewed, Laverne Cox joins ABC pilot, Tribeca announces lineup and more!
The GLAAD Wrap: 'One Day at a Time' renewed, Laverne Cox joins ABC pilot, Tribeca announces lineup and more!
Photo Credit: Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.
1) A new clip on the documentary about the historic same-sex marriage Supreme Court case has been released, Freedom to Marry takes a behind-the-scenes look at case. The film is already playing in New York, and will be shown in select Los Angeles theaters this Friday, March 10th. Click here to find out where to watch the film, and watch the clip below.
2) The lineup for the Tribeca Film Festival has been announced. This year’s LGBTQ-inclusive features are Saturday Church, Tom of Finland, Nobody’s Watching, and The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. Saturday Church is about 14-year-old Ulysses who finds an outlet for music and dance through a transgender youth community called Saturday Church, and Tom of Finland tells the story of artist Touko Laarksonen who is known for his homoerotic art. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson tells the story of Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson, a Greenwich Village artist and legendery trans activist. She co-founded the organization Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries (STAR) and the STAR House to provide resources to and advocate for disadvantaged young trans women and drag queens, and is most well known for her role in the Stonewall riots of 1969.The short films category includes Love the Sinner, The World in Your Window, and Dive.
3) Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens is now available on iTunes. The documentary follows the lives of eight different drag kings, drag queens, and transgender performers in Columbus, Ohio. It explores what gender is and how people express their gender identity, and discusses the differences between gender, sex, and sexual orientation. Watch the trailer below, and check out the movie on iTunes. In other film news, out actors Kate McKinnon and Colton Haynes star in the upcoming film Rough Night. The Canadian film Below Her Mouth will premiere in theaters and on VOD services in the U.S. on April 28.
4) More renewal news is trickling in. Netflix has renewed One Day at a Time for season two. Freeform has also announced the return dates for several of their shows. Shadowhunters will return June 5th at 8 pm, and The Fosters will premiere July 11th at 8 pm. Their new show The Bold Type will premiere July 11th, after The Fosters.
5) The CW’s Dynasty reboot pilot has cast Rafael de la Fuente (When We Rise) to star opposite of Grant Show. Sam (De la Fuente) sleeps with Blake Carrington (Show) who is the son of his family’s rival. ABC’s new comedy pilot The Trustee, has added Laverne Cox as the co-lead. The comedy is about Eliza Radley (Meaghan Rath), a detective who enlists the help of Amanda Jones (Cox), an ex-con who is finishing her sentence by helping out the police department.
6) A new series by HBO and the BBC will tell the story of Anne Lister. The series, Shibden Hall, follows the life of Anne Lister who wanted to transform her ancestral home in West Yorkshire in 1832. To accomplish that, she must marry into wealth, but her plans revolved around marrying a woman. The Alex Delaware novels will be adapted for television by IDW Entertainment. Alex Delaware is a forensic psychologist who works for the LAPD, and he most often works with Milo Sturgis, a gay homicide detective. The book series originally launched in 1985 and is considered America’s longest-running contemporary crime series. Amazon is also developing a new series by producer/director Jill Soloway. Set in 1942 during WWII, the series will follow a group of women in Texas as they try to form the first all-girl rodeo.
7) The trailers for Viceland’s Twiz & Tuck and Logo’s Fire Island have been released. Twiz & Tuck is a docuseries that follows two friends as they road trip across the country. Twiz is a gender fluid artist and Tuck is a trans man, the two drive across country to visit places that were important in their lives. The show premieres March 27th. Check out the trailer below. Logo’s Fire Island is a new reality series following six friends as they party it up at Fire Island for a summer. Click here to see the trailer.
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'Letters From Young Gay Men' Illuminates Life in a Hostile World
'Letters From Young Gay Men' Illuminates Life in a Hostile World
A new play features the real-life correspondence between queer youth and older mentors trying to offer perspective on growing up gay in America.
www.advocate.com/theater/2017/3/10/letters-young-gay-men-illuminate-life-hostile-world
Kathy Griffin, the SF Gay Men’s Chorus and a tour through Trump’s America
Kathy Griffin, the SF Gay Men’s Chorus and a tour through Trump’s America
It’s not often we can fit Kathy Griffin, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and Trump-voting red states into one headline, but today is our lucky day.
This weekend, the SF Gay Men’s Chorus will honor Griffin at their 11th annual Crescendo Gala for “her achievements in LGBTQ equality and for using her voice as an agent of change in the movement.”
The two-time Emmy and Grammy award-winning comedian will be joined by fellow guests Wilson Cruz, The Fosters’ Hayden Byerly, the Plaintiffs in California’s Prop. 8 case and activists Jeff Zarillo and Paul Katami, RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5 winner Jinkx Monsoon and country music star Chely Wright at the formal event.
Notably, the fundraising efforts of this year’s gala will be put towards the chorus’ Lavender Pen Tour, during which the SFGMC will visit seven cities and numerous small towns in six states including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. While in each of these states, the group will host performances and begin a dialogue with community leaders in an effort to support local LGBTQ communities.
Here’s some more info on that tour:
Why lavender, you ask?
Well, there’s a good story behind the name:
Harvey Milk, the first openly gay candidate elected to major office in the U.S., has often been referred to as the patron saint of SFGMC. The Chorus’ first public performance was at the candlelight vigil held on the night of Milk’s assassination. It was as if the baton of activism had been passed on.
In 1977, a year before his death, Harvey sponsored a landmark gay civil rights bill. Mayor George Moscone signed that bill into law with a lavender pen given to him by Harvey. The Lavender Pen remains a symbol of the fight for equality for all and the reason for the tour’s name.
The chorus will be joined on the tour by the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, and we’re looking forward to hearing how it all goes down.
Head here for more info on the Crescendo Gala.
And now, please enjoy this parody of Sam Smith‘s hit “Stay With Me” the SFGMC worked on, titled “Please Go Home”:
Maddow: Russians May Be Controlling Our Government
Maddow: Russians May Be Controlling Our Government
There are connections between Donald Trump, Nigel Farange, Julian Assange, and ultimately, Vladimir Putin, the out MSNBC journalist posits in her latest salvo against the president.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/3/10/maddow-russians-may-be-controlling-our-government
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It’s official! LA Pride parade canceled, replaced with protest march
It’s official! LA Pride parade canceled, replaced with protest march
Following a concerted effort by local LGBTQ activists, Los Angeles Pride will take on a decidedly more political atmosphere this year.
“We’re doing everything we can to make sure that the people who come to the city, sometimes only once or twice a year, are going to see something familiar [at the pride festival].”
That’s Christopher Street West board president Chris Classen, trying to assure folks at a Wednesday night community meeting that this year’s LA Pride in June will still provide a satisfying amount of entertainment, despite the major change in theme.
Related: West Coast LGBT protest planned to coincide with National Pride March
The annual pride parade has been sidelined altogether to make way for the nationwide LGBT Resist march, scheduled in several U.S. cities for Sunday, June 11th, the day LA Pride usually takes place.
Bound to be much like the vast Women’s March that swept many American cities on January 21st, LA’s Resist march will kick off at Hollywood and Highland and follow a 3.1 mile path to La Brea Avenue, where it will then turn onto Santa Monica Boulevard and end at San Vicente at the entrance of the Pride festival.
Queerty spoke with one of the march’s organizers, activist and L.A. Police and Fire pension commissioner Brian Pendleton, shortly after Trump’s inauguration.
“I was seeing all the excitement around what was going on in Washington D.C. regarding their Gay Pride efforts,” he said. “And coming off of what the Women’s March did around the country, it seemed like a natural fit.”
So far, the march has received over 23K positive responses on Facebook.
Related: It’s happening: Major LGBT march on Washington set for D.C. Pride weekend
WEHOville reports they’re expecting about “500,000 people” to attend to LA march.
The Pride Festival itself will still be a ticketed event (probably $20 each day), and it’s scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11 in West Hollywood Park.
There’s also a free trans event and a sober area on Friday June 9.
The annual Pride parade is expected to return in 2018.
Robert Reich, Harvey Fierstein, Married Priests, Ginger Spice, The Weeknd, Vitaly Churkin: HOT LINKS
Robert Reich, Harvey Fierstein, Married Priests, Ginger Spice, The Weeknd, Vitaly Churkin: HOT LINKS
BUT WHY. GANG OF EIGHT. Comey briefs congressional leaders: “Lawmakers were tight-lipped entering and leaving the meetings, refusing to discuss the substance of the briefing or whom they met with. Comey and some members used alternate exits that allowed them to avoid the swarm of reporters hoping to get a comment after the meetings.”
ALEXIS ARQUETTE. Lives on in David Arquette’s new baby.
ACLU. Complaint filed against Jeff Sessions: “The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed an ethics complaint with the Alabama State Bar against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for testimony he made about Russian officials during his confirmation hearing. ‘Mr. Sessions made false statements during sworn testimony on January 10, 2017, and in a subsequent written response to questions on January 17, 2017,’ the complaint reads.”
RECUSED. Rex Tillerson recuses himself from Keystone Pipeline concerns.
HIS BODYGUARD. Adele defends Justin Bieber. “If you started out at 12, you’d be like that too, okay!”
CARTER PAGE. My phone may have been tapped: “Having spoken in favor of some of Mr Trump’s policies on other Fox News Group programs during the 2016 campaign as a campaign surrogate and given the peaceful relationship I have had with Russian citizens since my years in the US Navy, it may be understandable why I would be an associated political target if such sick activities had indeed been committed as alleged in the previously cited media reports.”
VATICAN. Pope Francis open to allowing married priests in Catholic Church: “The pope raised the idea in an interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit. He ruled out the prospect of allowing single men who are already priests to marry, but was open to the idea of allowing unmarried laymen or men already married to be ordained. The pope raised the prospect in the context of allowing “viri probati,” Latin for “tested men,” to be ordained in places with a scarcity of priests.”
ROBERT REICH. There are now four grounds to impeach Trump. The fifth is on its way.
By my count, there are now four grounds to impeach Trump. The fifth seems to be on its way. pic.twitter.com/PfAw0a0hfU
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 9, 2017
SYRIA. Second Islamist State emerging: “There’s a second Islamic State; it’s right on the Turkish border,” explains Padnos. “To get to this second Islamic State from any European country, it’s a couple of days on the bus. Young kids are going every day—that’s what the guys on the ground in Syria are telling me: ‘Oh yes, we have new French people, new English people every day.’”
INSTAGRAM UPDATES. Chad White is chicken chef. More here.
GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM. Harvey Fierstein to open off-Broadway: “For his latest role, Harvey Fierstein is playing a man in love. The actor stars as Beau, a pianist expat living in London in Martin Sherman’s Gently Down the Stream, who meets an eccentric young lawyer, Rufus, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. The play chronicles their love story through the decades, while simultaneously celebrating the triumphs and tragedies of the gay rights movement. Gabriel Ebert, who previously performed in Fierstein’s Casa Valentina on Broadway, plays Rufus.”
GINGER SPICE. Tears for her friend and collaborator George Michael.
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk “I Feel It Coming”.
FRIDAY FLASH. Johnnell Terrell and Tyrone Wells.
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