TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has nominated Bruce A. Harris for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court. If confirmed, Harris would be the first LGBT person and third African American to sit on the Supreme Court. Harris currently serves as mayor of the Borough of Chatham, an office to which he…
SAO PÃULO – The Brazilian state of São Paulo, in partnership with the São Paulo City Metro (subway), have launched a campaign to combat homophobia throughout their subway stations. The campaign entitled, See beyond prejudice. Respect differences aims to increase respect toward, and decrease discrimination against, LGBT people living in Sao Paulo. The first stage…
You had to go, so you did – kicking and screaming. Really, you must admit that it was nice of the boss to host the holiday party. In these tough economic times, she didn’t have to do it. She paid for food, a band, even door prizes. Everybody seemed to have a good time. Everybody…
Last week, the Oscar nominations were announced, and nine movies are vying for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Why there are nine and not ten like last year and not five like there were every year for sixty years is a long and complicated story; it mostly involves a combination of preferential voting system…
I took a sabbatical for a few weeks so I wasn’t able to share two exhibition openings by two local gay artists. Luckily both shows are still up and both are in North Park so you can pay a visit next time you are in the neighborhood. In my first column of the year I…
BY VICTOR HOFF Tracking Sean down was no easy task. He’s not inclined to give interviews or, I suspect, he’s much more careful about with whom he speaks, given the rather toxic environment he has left behind in the gay adult entertainment world when he closed the door on ‘Brent Corrigan.’ Luckily, I have the…
A Christian pastor is calling for a national boycott of Starbucks Coffee in wake of the company’s support of same-sex marriage in the state of Washington. Pastor Steven Andrew of USA Christian Ministries called for all Christian Americans to stop their support of the giant coffee chain in an online blog published a day before…
Two gay Ohio men say they were arrested and jailed without their pants in what may be a slam against their sexual orientation. Steven Ondo and Jonathan Simcox are suing the city of Cleveland and its police force, asking for unspecified damages, in what they call anti-gay bias the Associated Press is reporting. Their claims…
A federal appeals court said Thursday that videotapes covering the historical Perry v. Brown tiral surrounding California’s Proposition 8 ruling would be kept private, thereby overturning a lower court decision that would have allowed the tapes to be released publicly. The announcement comes as a victory for supporters of Proposition 8, serving meanwhile a disappointment…
BY VICTOR HOFF In general, the history of queer cinema reads like a never-ending saga of homophobia: murderers (“Rope,” 1948), psychopaths (“The Fan,” 1980), both (“Cruising,” 1981), limp-wristed pansies (“Partners,” 1982), manic depressives (“The Children’s Hour,” 1961) and just about every other pathology one can evoke. Hollywood was unapologetic in its cruel depictions of…
