It is not every day that fashion is inspired by 14th century art. Six graduate designers at UCLA’s The David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design were challenged to design and create a costume inspired by the Timken painting, Madonna and Child by di Buonaccorso. The museum will display the student-created costumes…
A preliminary injunction hearing has been set for June 21 in the case of Rose Trevis v. Hawleywood’s Barbershop and Shaving Parlor, in which the plaintiff, a transgender man, alleges the self-described “old school barbershop” in Long Beach, Calif. discriminated against him on the basis of what the shop’s operators perceived as his gender. The…
Bruce Springsteen has cancelled a concert this weekend in North Carolina due to the state’s radical and extreme new anti-LGBT law – HB 2 – that passed the legislature March 23. Springsteen and his E Street Band were due to perform at the Greensboro Coliseum this Sunday. In announcing the decision, Springsteen said: “As you, my…
