Entrevista Javier Checa. Secretario LGBT Partido Andalucista
Entrevista al Candidato a la Alcaldía de Málaga, Javier Checa, y secretario LGBT del Partido Andalucista para el canal Orgullotv.com.
Daily Archives: December 23, 2014
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Russell Elliot, Queer R&B Artist, Engaged In Kickstarter Campaign
Russell Elliot, Queer R&B Artist, Engaged In Kickstarter Campaign
Is there a place for a queer voice within the world of R&B?
Elliot Russell is a self-identified pansexual feminist engaged in a Kickstarter campaign to fund a record with a queer framework that also respects women.
Called “Reimagining R&B,” the campaign from this New York-based artist is slated to culminate in a 4-song EP. In an industry often slammed for being rooted in misogyny and homophobia with little to no queer representations, Elliot’s work has the potential to be groundbreaking.
The Huffington Post chatted with the artist this week about his campaign and what he is trying to accomplish.
The Huffington Post: What is your vision for this EP?
Russell Elliot: The Russell Elliot EP is a step towards honoring the writer’s commitment I have tattooed on my wrist: “tell it like it is.” If half of the authenticity, fearlessness and honesty I hope to channel into this project comes through to listeners, I will be a happy, happy man. Ultimately, my vision is to speak candidly about my own experiences (in love, lust, frustration, indignation, etc.) with a clarity and confidence I wouldn’t have been able to unearth in another time and space.
The hip hop and R&B communities have historically been noted for being rooted in misogyny and homophobia. How do you aim to combat this through your work?
R&B is a tough genre for queer voices because of this. I’m voicing my own experiences — the likes of which I haven’t heard much in R&B (shout out to you, Frank Ocean, for being one of the great exceptions). I hope that one day someone who feels alienated in the current R&B climate will come to feel included because they hear a voice like mine talking about a life like mine. Sometimes cultural change is also about what we don’t say — or refuse to say. I refuse to demean / debase / objectify / reduce other people. I hope my music can exemplify that we don’t need to do these things to have a hit R&B record.
How does your identity as a pansexual feminist inform your work?
My identity as a pansexual feminist informs my work insofar as it informs my identity. The same is true of me being a musician — it all informs what I do as I tell stories from my lived experience. I’m so happy that my music, the stories I tell and the worldview I create through can contribute to important growing dialogues on cultural change.
Head here to check out Elliot’s campaign “Reimagining R&B.”
Supreme Court to Consider Sixth Circuit Marriage Cases at January 9 Conference
Supreme Court to Consider Sixth Circuit Marriage Cases at January 9 Conference
Justices will decide whether to hear marriage cases from Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee alongside previously distributed Louisiana case
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HRC Publishes Its Tone-Deaf, Annual Corporate Equality Index
HRC Publishes Its Tone-Deaf, Annual Corporate Equality Index
It’s the most listicle time of the year, which is to say that it’s the holiday season and publications across the internet are putting out end of the year lists (we’ve got a couple of great ones here, here, and here.) Never one to miss out on a party, the Human Rights Campaign has published its annual Corporate Equality Index, a roundup of the “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.”
One might assume, given the somewhat odd naming, that the list would focus on companies working to further LGBT equality. One would be wrong. Rather, the CEI is a choice selection of large companies with fairly strict non-discrimination policies on the books. The problem, as Jordan Kreuger explains in the Huffington Post, is that the index is more or less an exercise in tone deaf corporate nonsense:
“There’s no consideration of the larger picture of a corporation’s actions, its misdeeds, or how working for a company on this list oftentimes means working directly for, or closely with, enemies of equality.”
Abercrombie & Fitch, Comcast, and Chevron all made the list. It doesn’t take the most media-conscious person to know that none of these companies has the strongest of track records when it comes to being objectively “good.”
Charles Pulliam-Moore
www.towleroad.com/2014/12/hrc-publishes-its-tone-deaf-annual-corporate-equality-index.html
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'Legend Of Korra' Creators Confirm Korra and Asami Are A Couple
'Legend Of Korra' Creators Confirm Korra and Asami Are A Couple
“The Legend of Korra” creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino have confirmed that Korra and Asami ended the series as a couple. Days after the finale suggested the long fan-desired pairing finally happened — closing on Korra and Asani holding hands and entering the spirit world together — Konietzo and and DiMartino took to their respective Tumblr accounts to discuss the relationship.
“Korrasami is canon,” wrote Konietzco in his post. “You can celebrate it, embrace it, accept it, get over it, or whatever you feel the need to do, but there is no denying it. That is the official story.”
“We received some wonderful press in the wake of the series finale at the end of last week, and just about every piece I read got it right: Korra and Asami fell in love,” he continued. “Were they friends? Yes, and they still are, but they also grew to have romantic feelings for each other.”
“Our intention with the last scene was to make it as clear as possible that yes, Korra and Asami have romantic feelings for each other,” DiMartino noted in his entry. “The moment where they enter the spirit portal symbolizes their evolution from being friends to being a couple.”
DiMartino also mentioned in the post that he took it as a compliment that Joanna Robinson at Vanity Fair described the Nickelodeon show (which you can find online) as subversive. In an article after the finale, she wrote:
When it comes to children’s entertainment, that envelope still needs pushing. After-the-fact concessions like Dumbledore was gay, or Ren and Stimpy were gay, have limited value. ‘Adventure Time’ certainly makes an effort, and two female lovers from the Japanese show ‘Sailor Moon’, who were changed to ‘cousins’ in the Americanized version, are finally coming out of the closet. But American kids’ shows have a long way to go before L.G.B.T. story lines are considered a matter of course. And none of those examples above quite match Korra and Asami’s climactic spirit portal moment.
New Report Urges Latin American Countries to Document Violence against LGBT Communities
New Report Urges Latin American Countries to Document Violence against LGBT Communities
A new report released this week details the violence against the LGBT community in the Americas and urges member countries to fulfill their obligation to document and take a stand against anti-LGBT violence and hate.
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