Tag Archives: LGBT

December 28

My New Addiction – Pwr Bttm

So my best friend came to visit last week and introduced me to Pwr Bttm. The band is utterly exquisite and absolutely unapologetic in pushing boundaries. Actually, I take that back. There are no boundaries. Whatever comes to mind is game. My favorite song so far… “I wanna boi.” So check it out and tell me […]

June 12

The Price of Hate

Given the ongoing coverage of the shooting in Orlando, it is going to be hard to come up with a new angle. So I can just share a personal one. I am disheartened, but what has happened. I look back on my history, the gay history, and see massacres stretching back. So today we find […]

July 08

Swoon – Magic Mike XXL

So why am I swooning this evening? Matt Bomer sings “Heaven” in Magic Mike XXL. While on the road, Matt, along with Channing Tatum and the boys, finds himself in the company of a group of ladies. Matt gives the women some advice about their love lives. Of course, his efforts turn musical pretty quickly. Listen to Matt […]

June 30

A Weekend of Pride

June 27

Puerto Rican Orlando Cruz is First Openly Gay Boxer

March 07

My Heart is in Sydney for Mardi Gras

Happy Mardi Gras to the LGBT Community of Sydney, Australia. It’s your Christmas. Go hard. Have fun. Rehydrate! The truth is this…when it all boils down to it, we’re meant to love one another, not judge one another. We’re quick to cast judgments on people based on the color of their skin, their age, their physical […]

February 12

Homosexuality: it’s time to talk about it  

Originally posted on Komaba Times:
Amaël Cognacq “Basically, in Japan, homosexuality’s existence itself is outrightly denied. I cannot be satisfied by this,” says a lesbian student at the University of Tokyo. In Japan, same-sex couples do not exist legally. Socially, homosexuality lacks both recognition and representation. In this uncomfortable situation, how do LGBT students of…

January 30

Benedict Cumberbatch And Stephen Fry Among Supporters Of Request For LGBT Pardon

Originally posted on EILE Magazine:
Alan Turing, photo Elliott & Fry Studio 1951 An open letter, calling on the British Government to pardon 49,000 individuals, of which 15,000 are still living today, who were convicted of homosexual acts, has been signed by such luminaries as Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch, along with Alan Turing’s niece,…

January 21

The allies among us…

December 05

Why America needs a new Harvey Milk

Originally posted on Can't rest with the unrest:
“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet shoot down every closet door.”  -Harvey Milk The Harvey Milk foundation leads Milk’s legacy after he was shot on November 27, 1978.  Unlike other public figures, Milk knew he was going to be assassinated.  But the…