Nightmare: New York To Celebrate Halloween With Gay Night
Are you queens ready to be scared to death?

The longest-running haunted house in New York City will hold a gay night this year that’s sure to be the highlight of your Halloween festivities. On Oct. 22, Nightmare: New York will transform into Gay Night at Nightmare: New York, featuring music by s*dOt jOhn, giveaways from SCRUFF and drink specials all night long. This is the 11th season of Nightmare: New York, which is reportedly the second largest Halloween event in the city next to the famous Halloween Parade.

A press release for the event sent to The Huffington Post reveals:

“For the first time ever the renowned NIGHTMARE haunted house will delve into New York City’s very own heart of darkness with a haunted attraction about the legendary horror stories and urban legends of NYC. Spanning time from when the island was called Manahatta to Cropsey, Gargoyles, alligators in the subways and to new legends of the super rats created by Hurricane Sandy, NIGHTMARE: NEW YORK reminds New Yorkers and beyond that some of the greatest nightmares are in your own backyard.”

“One of the hallmarks of Nightmare has always been its ambition,” says Timothy Haskell, Nightmare’s creator. “Unlike most other haunted attractions we present a brand new experience every year in both theme and content. As artists this keeps it exciting and new. We could be celebrating our 50th anniversary and still feel like we are doing it for the first time!”

Gay Night at Nightmare: New York will take place on Oct. 22. For $10 off your ticket price present the secret password “LUGNUT.” Head here for more information. Nightmare: New York runs through November 1st, 2014 at The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey on Manhattan’s lower east side.

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Addressing HIV in Alabama

This month, HRC Alabama’s Field Organizer Tori Sisson participated in both the Montgomery AIDS Outreach TreadRED AIDS Walk/Run and the Magic City AIDS Walk/Run.
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PHOTOS: Model DW Chase Gets Down In The Desert

DW Chase is photographed in the barren desert, but there is still plenty of sex appeal here to whet your appetite. He wears the latest underwear styles by Modus Vivendi, and they’re captured stunningly by photographer Cory Stierley. In each shot, the underwear pops against DW’s skin and the desert background that simmers in a similar tone. And between the bold underwear designs and his defined abs, the open desert never looked so inviting.

For more information, go to The Underwear Expert.

Photo Credit: Cory Stierley

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Man Arrested for Attempted Rape of Woman Inside NYC Gay Bar: VIDEO

Andy Towle

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Paul's Black LGBT Heroes (Black History Month)
October is Black History Month in the UK. It’s a chance to learn about, raise awareness, and celebrate Black history, culture and heritage that is often unseen and unheard in society. Throughout…

A Beautiful And Brief Queer History Of The Classical Nude In Art (NSFW)
There are few themes that connect the centuries and centuries of art history like the nude. Sublime landscapes and posed portraits make their fair share of reappearances over the years, shaped by movements from Mannerism to net art. But there’s no popular object more prolific as a nude body, popping up in the oeuvres of Rubens to Degas, Jenny Saville to Ryan McGinley.

A new exhibition at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is taking a comprehensive look at the ways in which artists, from antiquity to present day, have imagined the naked body. Showcasing over 100 objects of painting, photography, sculpture, video, drawing and print, the show will tackle the nude in typical Leslie-Lohman fashion: by exploring the space between binary definitions of sexuality and gender.

James Bidgood, Pan, 1965, C-print, 22 x 22 in., © James Bidgood, Collection of Michael Sodomick.

“For over 2,500 years, we have cohabited with one aesthetic archetype — by far the longest such relationship in the western canon: the classical nude,” exhibition curator Jonathan David Katz explained in a press statement. “Not only is it the longest lasting, most influential visual form for representing the human body up to the present day, but also it has become so powerfully naturalized as merely ‘the nude’ that we have often lost the ability to see it as a specific historical type, with a particular history, geography and canon.”

Titled “Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History,” the exhibition is divided into four chronological parts — the years of Antiquity, the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries, and the movements of modern and contemporary art. Spanning over two millennia, the selection covers not only the evolution of the naked image, but the presentation of same-sex love and homoeroticism too.

While the lines and forms transform drastically over the length of the show, from a 1540 sketch by Michaelangelo to a Zanele Muholi C-print from 2009, rendering the body continues to serve as a means of reflecting the desires and subversions of the times. Sure, the nude spent a good amount of time under the thumb of white, male artists, but more recently women and queer artists — exploring domesticity, new found independence in the 19th and 20th centuries, and sexual competition — brought the genre to new heights in the modern age.

“The nude is timeless, because human sexual nature evolved before the stone age and has essentially not changed since –- apart from a few customs,” Jonathan Jones wrote for The Guardian last year. You could argue that while customs have only moderately changed, the ways in which societies over time have perceived those customs have changed greatly. This is, as has been the case in many of Leslie-Lohman’s shows over the past few years, one way the exhibition seeks to reexamine nude history through a queer lens.

“Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History” will be on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art from October 18, 2014 to January 5, 2015.

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No Fly Zone: These Ten Countries Can Kill You For Being Gay

You wouldn’t be very likely to visit any of these places during your hard-earned vacation days even before reading this. But it’s important to know that there are still corners of the world that punish LGBTs as if they were capital offenders. It’s amazing to think someone could equate being gay with committing treason or first-degree murder.

It’s also interesting that countries we think of as having horrible official policies towards LGBT people like Russia seem if not evolved then at least humane compared with this terrible list. Though in Russia, as with many places, it’s not the government you have to be most afraid of, it’s the gang of armed neanderthals.

Here are ten places in the world that can put people to death for being gay, as compiled by the Washington Post:

Yemen: According to 1994 penal code, married men can be sentenced to death by stoning for homosexual intercourse. Unmarried men face whipping or one year in prison. Women face up to seven years in prison.

Iran: In accordance with sharia law, homosexual intercourse between men can be punished by death, and men can be flogged for lesser acts such as kissing. Women may be flogged.

Iraq: The penal code does not expressly prohibit homosexual acts, but people have been killed by militias and sentenced to death by judges citing sharia law.

Mauritania: Muslim men engaging in homosexual sex can be stoned to death, according to a 1984 law. Women face prison.

Nigeria: Federal law classifies homosexual behavior as a felony punishable by imprisonment, but several states have adopted sharia law and imposed a death penalty for men. A law signed in early January makes it illegal for gay people countrywide to hold a meeting or form clubs.

Qatar: Sharia law in Qatar applies only to Muslims, who can be put to death for extramarital sex, regardless of sexual orientation.

Saudi Arabia: Under the country’s interpretation of sharia law, a married man engaging in sodomy or any non-Muslim who commits sodomy with a Muslim can be stoned to death. All sex outside of marriage is illegal.

Somalia: The penal code stipulates prison, but in some southern regions, Islamic courts have imposed Sharia law and the death penalty.

Sudan: Three-time offenders under the sodomy law can be put to death; first and second convictions result in flogging and imprisonment. Southern parts of the country have adopted more lenient laws.

United Arab Emirates: Lawyers in the country and other experts disagree on whether federal law proscribes the death penalty for consensual homosexual sex or only for rape. In a recent Amnesty International report, the organization said it was not aware of any death sentences for homosexual acts. All sexual acts outside of marriage are banned.

Dan Tracer

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Gay Marriage News Watch: The Growing Marriage Map and Next Steps Towards Nationwide Equality: VIDEO

Kyler Geoffroy

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6 Celebs Who Have Performed Marriages for Same-Sex Couples

Joan Rivers, Lady Gaga, and Benedict Cumberbatch have all made queer couples’ weddings complete.

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Matt Baume

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The Fitting Memorial To Marriage Equality On Jesse Helms’ Tombstone

Jesse Helms’ casket might as well be on a rotisserie, because he’s spinning in his grave right now. Last Friday, a federal judge in North Carolina cleared the way for marriage equality in the state that the late Senator served so ignobly. Good thing that Helms, who called us  “weak, morally sick wretches,” wasn’t alive to see it, because it would have killed him.

However, someone with a fine sense of poetic justice decided to send a message to Jesse in the great beyond. (We won’t speculate just where that might be.) Propped up against Helms’ tombstone was a newspaper heralding the advent of same-sex weddings in the state. We bet that Helms never expected to see that on his tombstone.

And just in case you think Helms is a relic of the past, here’s a reminder that he’s not. Sen. Ted Cruz, the beloved of the Tea Party, has said that “we need 100 more like Jesse Helms.” Apparently, that old time homophobia just won’t die.

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