Broadway Bares Gets Naked for the 25th Time
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Indiana Legislative Study Committees Won't Take Up LGBT Rights This Summer
Indiana Legislative Study Committees Won't Take Up LGBT Rights This Summer
Indiana lawmakers will be doing some homework before returning to the state capitol next year, but LGBT-inclusive antidiscrimination law isn’t one of the assigned subjects.
Trudy Ring
'Hocus Pocus' Stage Show Is Going To Put A Spell On You At Disney World
'Hocus Pocus' Stage Show Is Going To Put A Spell On You At Disney World
After 22 years, “Hocus Pocus” is getting resurrected and this time around a virgin didn’t even have to light the black flame candle to bring the Sanderson sisters back.
On Thursday, Walt Disney Parks announced that Winifred, Mary and Sarah Sanderson will return to the world of the living in the “Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular.” The live stage show will run during Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party held on select nights at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Park in Orlando, Florida from Sept. 15 to Nov. 1.
And because Disney is suddenly bringing “Hocus Pocus” to the stage, naturally it makes us wonder if there is a sequel in store for the beloved 1993 film, which starred Bette Middler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson sisters.
While Disney hasn’t said anything about a sequel, during a Reddit AMA last year, Middler revealed she was totally down reprise her role as Winifred and cast another spell on audiences.
“You have to go to send in your cards to the Walt Disney company,” she said. “The ball’s in their court.”
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Alabama Kills LGBT-Inclusive Antidiscrimination Bill
Alabama Kills LGBT-Inclusive Antidiscrimination Bill
One of Alabama’s most famous gay natives, Apple CEO Tim Cook, had urged the state to adopt such protections, but the bill is moved to the trash for now.
Trudy Ring
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/05/28/alabama-kills-lgbt-inclusive-antidiscrimination-bill
Benjy 'The Gay Bull' Is Actually Bisexual
Benjy 'The Gay Bull' Is Actually Bisexual
It’s no bull: the U.K.’s infamous gay bull isn’t so gay after all! He likes both bulls and cows.
Eliel Cruz
www.advocate.com/bisexuality/2015/05/28/benjy-gay-bull-actually-bisexual
One Of Broadways’ Cutest Gay Couples Offers New Twist On ‘Spring Awakening’
One Of Broadways’ Cutest Gay Couples Offers New Twist On ‘Spring Awakening’
Andy Mientus, Michael Arden
Less than a decade since it premiered on Broadway, Spring Awakening, thanks to its relatable storyline and electrifying rock score, is already considered one of the bona fide musical theater classics of this century. Still, it isn’t too soon for the Tony Award-winning show, brilliantly adapted from a 19th century German drama, to get a thoroughly modern twist. That’s just what one of the theater world’s dreamiest and most-talented real-life couples, Michael Arden and Andy Mientus (the pair announced their engagement last summer) have accomplished with their Deaf West Theatre production which opens today in Los Angeles, and is performed simultaneously in sign language and spoken English.
Arden, a veteran of countless productions including the recent musical adaptation of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame and a familiar face to TV and movie audiences and who’s directing the production, notes that the show’s story has resonated with LGBTQ audiences for more than a century.
“From its ahead of its time portrayal of homosexuality to its expose on how suppression and hypocrisy in sexual politics can lead to disaster,” he tells Queerty. “It’s a play that shows us the danger of not telling the truth, which is incredibly relative to the struggles so many LGBTQ youth continue to go through a century after the play was written.”Mientus, who is perhaps best-known for his role in NBC’s Smash and stars in the production, agrees. He should know, considering his long history with the show.
“Having appeared in the first national tour of the original production, I literally grew up with this show and getting to re-examine it in this groundbreaking new concept, I am further convinced of the power of its message,” Mientus tells us. “That across time, terrible things happen to innocent people solely because they are denied a voice. It’s a story that resonates deeply with the deaf community, the LGBTQ community, and any community that has felt ignored, suppressed, and silenced unfairly.”
So You Think You Can Dance‘s Spencer Liff choregraphed the production, which opens tonight at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Get your tickets here. Enjoy the show’s trailer below.
Jeremy Kinser
Rick Santorum is 'Sickened' by What Josh Duggar Did: VIDEO
Rick Santorum is 'Sickened' by What Josh Duggar Did: VIDEO
In a wide-ranging interview with George Stephanopolous that included ISIS, immigration, and Hillary Clinton, 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum took a moment to remark on the revelations that FRC staffer and family values crusader Josh Duggar sexually abused five underage girls more than a decade ago.
He took a different tack than Mike Huckabee, who stood by the Duggar family and called Josh’s actions ‘forgivable.’
Said Santorum, who posed with Duggar for a photograph (below) in March:
“I was sickened by it. I was just sickened by it. I pray for those girls in particular. To have gone through that is … just hard to think about.”
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Great to be with @RickSantorum & @BenSeewald in #Houston today — standing for #ReligiousFreedom! @FRCAction #TX pic.twitter.com/r5BIwOOrJM
— Josh Duggar (@joshduggar) March 11, 2015
Andy Towle
www.towleroad.com/2015/05/rick-santorum-is-sickened-by-what-josh-duggar-did-video.html
North Carolina Governor To Veto Antigay Measure
North Carolina Governor To Veto Antigay Measure
The Republican governor of North Carolina says he will not sign a partisan bill to give magistrates and clerks the right to refuse to perform same sex marriages or issue marriage licenses to gays and lesbians.
Dawn Ennis
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/05/28/north-carolina-governor-veto-antigay-measure
