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Stephen Colbert addresses #FireColbert controversy: ‘I would do it again’
Stephen Colbert addresses #FireColbert controversy: ‘I would do it again’
“I’m your host, Stephen Colbert. Still? I am still the host?”
Tribeca’s International Best Actor Played a Gay Latino Immigrant
Tribeca’s International Best Actor Played a Gay Latino Immigrant
The Advocate interviewed Nobody’s Watching star Guillermo Pfening and director Julia Solomonoff about the award-winning and intersectional role.
www.advocate.com/film/2017/5/03/tribecas-international-best-actor-played-gay-latino-immigrant
White night of the Duke inspired by Lempicka
White night of the Duke inspired by Lempicka
How You Can Stop the ‘License to Discriminate’ Order
How You Can Stop the ‘License to Discriminate’ Order
Trump is supposed to issue it Thursday, but there are actions you can take.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/5/03/how-you-can-stop-license-discriminate-order
Pit Crew Jason teaches rookie Jared how to sissy that walk
Pit Crew Jason teaches rookie Jared how to sissy that walk
He’s got legs and he knows how to use ’em.
New Music: Steps, The Cranberries, Blondie, Ásgeir, Feist
New Music: Steps, The Cranberries, Blondie, Ásgeir, Feist
This week in New Music: Steps do perfect 90s pop on Tears on the Dancefloor, The Cranberries demonstrate just why they were – and remain – a class act on Something Else, Blondie enlist Sia and more on album number 11 Pollinator, Ásgeir goes electronic for album number two and Feist goes confessional indie rock on Pleasure.
Steps – Tears on the Dancefloor
The Steps fanbase is heading for its 30s (perhaps late 30s at a push) so a new album makes sense and quite honestly it’s glorious pop nonsense with some major missteps (sorry).
On Tears on the Dancefloor, Steps know their audience and mine its collective kid-consciousness for all its worth on a collection of mostly perfect, sugary, Eurovision-friendly anthems.
“Story of a Heart,” “Neon Blue” and “Firefly” are perfect 90s pop. “Happy” is a majestic anthem. “Glitter and Gold” is so cheesy it could have come off Kylie Minogue’s 1990 album Rhythm of Love.
Nostalgia rarely sounds this good.
The Cranberries – Something Else
Recorded in the University of Limerick in their hometown, The Cranberries – commercially one of the most successful Irish bands of all time – have issued Something Else, a collection of orchestrated old tracks with three new ones.
Most of the rerecorded songs on the album add another level to Dolores O’Riordan’s still stunning voice and the quartet at their sweet pop best. The reimagined version of “Free to Decide” musically at least actually reflects the unpleasant themes of the song all the better.
“Zombie” just doesn’t really work because it should always be edgy and angry.
Of the three new songs, “Why?” is the standout.
Something Else will be essential to fans. A good dose of marketing could well introduce The Cranberries to an entirely new audience.
Blondie – Pollinator
As a band with a history of working together for more than 40 years on and off, Blondie possibly felt the need to do something different on album number 11 Pollinator.
The titles gives it away – Debbie Harry and co. have enlisted the help of a vast array of songwriters for Pollinator, presumably as an attempt to extend their own sound.
It’s mostly successful.
Working with the likes of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) and Sia has bore results. Although at times perhaps trying too hard to keep up with the kids, fans will lap it up.
Ásgeir – “Afterglow”
Singer songwriter Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson’s debut album In the Silence (originally Dýrð í dauðaþögn) is apparently the best selling Icelandic album of all time.
Given Ásgeir’s falsetto vocal tricks, comparisons with Sigur Ros’s Jonsi are obvious but you would be best to follow the likes of Bon Iver and Sweden’s The Tallest Man on Earth – aka Kristian Matsson – for pointers.
Like Bon Iver, for album number two it appears that Ásgeir may also be shedding the singer songwriter box for a glitchy, electronic sound akin to James Blake and Halls.
Have a listen to lead single “Afterglow” below.
Feist – Pleasure
For her latest album Pleasure, Feist goes for a solid, pared-back indie rock style that will draw comparisons with the likes of PJ Harvey and Haley Bonar.
The Bonar comparison is less relevant as the South Dakota singer tends towards the more playful while Feist goes for confessional rock that often reminds the listener of Harvey at her early caustic best (for example the storming “Any Party”).
Feist also has her quiet moments on the likes of “I Wish I Didn’t Miss You” but the noisy bits are the standouts.
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On the Tras Palabras podcast, Carolina González interviews her friend, and transgender rights advocate Arianna Lint
On the Tras Palabras podcast, Carolina González interviews her friend, and transgender rights advocate Arianna Lint
Carolina Gonzalez
Spanish-language audiences have fewer media options for accurate content that covers issues that impact LGBTQ people. Luckily, Spanish-language podcast creators have stepped up to create compelling audio stories. One such podcast is Tras Palabras a new culture podcast that seeks to go beyond words and labels (hence its title, “tras” meaning to go beyond or behind; “palabras” meaning words) giving listeners a chance to get to know the people behind the one or two words that are used to describe them.
Carolina González is a storyteller with a keen ear for testimonies that help advance social justice. When she arrived in Miami from Venezuela she had already had the privilege of studying at the same university where Tamara Adrián, noted lawyer, politician and advocate for transgender women like herself taught. Gonzalez, a cisgender straight woman, learned from Adrián that Venezuela, like many countries, did not allow transgender people to update their identity documents with the gender marker and name that aligned with their identity.
In Miami, González realized the United States too had a patchwork of practices and protections for transgender people. As she worked with reporters and producers in her role as Communications Officer for the ACLU, she realized that just like in her home country, many reporters had a lack of familiarity with the correct terminology related to covering LGBTQ issues. She also saw that media professionals often lacked the information to accurately disccus news items that impacted transgender people, often confusing gender identity with sexual orientation for example, or failing to use the right pronouns and name when referring to transgender interviewees or subjects.
Arianna Lint is an advocate for HIV+ people, transgender people and immigrants. A lawyer in Peru, she came to the United States to transition, leaving behind a career in order to be true to 
herself. Although she had an accepting family, Lint had a hard time working in Peru because she faced homophobia (before her transition.) When she came to Florida, Lint found that in addition to transphobia many of the women and men she advocated for also faced xenophobia and discrimination due to their immigrant status. She chose to tell her story both as an example to the people she met who were fighting against multiple injustices and to help media do a better job when they explored decisions that affected LGBTQ immigrants and in that way impact policy decisions.
González and Lint are good friends, so it was natural for them to turn to each other to accomplish their complimentary goals. Lint knew she could trust González to tell her story respectfully, something that she could not always count on when working with media in the past. The two found working on the podcast insightful. The resulting interview is one of the first (and most popular) episodes of this new independent effort.
For González, each episode is a powerful return on her initial sacrifice when she bought the equipment, researched the medium, and sought out a skeleton crew that could help her with editing and mixing the episodes. She hopes her approach will ensure that audiences will hear from people often not heard on other airwaves. Not all her podcasts will feature LGBTQ interviewees but as an ally, as an immigrant and because of her experiences in media, she is determined that her podcasts include experiences from people who are often misunderstood.
For Lint, each time she shares her story with others, she knows that it might help her continue her grassroots efforts to help women like her. She enjoyed listening to a 45 minute version of her life enhanced by the inspiring music and commentary that González added. Lint knows that not all her experiences with media are easy or enjoyable, but she is committed to continue speaking out in order to make the world better for the transgender people who come after her.
May 3, 2017
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Gay Senior: Mississippi Funeral Home Refused to Bury My Husband
Gay Senior: Mississippi Funeral Home Refused to Bury My Husband
An 82-year-old man is taking action against a funeral home that allegedly said it did not “deal with their kind.”