TORONTO – High profile public figures—from Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander to Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin—are lending their support to a new national campaign, calling on people across Canada to join together against the crisis of homelessness among LGBTQ2S youth. OUTatNight, launched by national equality group Egale Canada Human Rights Trust (Egale), invites participants to collect…
PBS Digital Studios with WNET New York have just released episode 2 of the new web series First Person. Host Kristin Russo sits down with writer, musician, filmmaker and performer, Vivek Shraya, about bisexual erasure and his experience identifying as bisexual. Shraya also discusses his new book “She of the Mountains,” a bisexual love story…
A group of University of Texas at Austin students are creating a queer-inclusive sorority — the first of its kind for the campus, reports the Huffington Post. Though it’s frequently been deemed “the first national lesbian sorority,” Gamma Rho Lambda (GRL) embraces all women “whether they identify as lesbian, bisexual, ally, transgender, questioning, straight, or…
Puerto Vallarta’s annual LGBT event “Vallarta Pride” will have a number of new initiatives this year, including an Andre Christian fashion show, an International Film Festival Screening and the participation of Orange is the New Black’s Lea DeLaria as Grand Marshal. The eight-day event will take place from May 17 to 24 and participants will…
Gay DJ/Producer Ryan Skyy has released a music video that completely re-imagines his dance single “Done” into a soulful, acoustic, spanish-influenced unplugged pop track featuring Natalie Merchant’s guitarist Gabriel Gordon and Niki Darling (Tommy Boy Records/Keystone Music Group) on vocals! The Unplugged version was recorded live and is available on iTunes and Spotify. Watch the…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Stoic Entertainment has announced that its original, scripted comedy, Kittens in a Cage, will be distributed by TV4 Entertainment and will be available to stream on hulu. The series was executive produced, directed and written by Jillian Armenante, based on the play by Kelleen Conway Blanchard and produced by Dash Arnott….
Madonna stops by the SiriusXM studios for the first time to speak with OutQ’s Larry Flick in person about her latest music project, Rebel Heart. The Grammy and Golden Globe Award winning Queen of Pop, spoke about her latest album, her inspirations and the New York of yesteryear.
Transgender teen activist and HRC Foundation Youth Ambassador Jazz Jennings stars in a new commercial for “Clean and Clear,” writes Hayley Miller on the HRC Blog. As part of the See The Real Me campaign, Jazz, 14, opened up about her life as a transgender teenager. “Growing up has been quite a struggle being transgender,”…
NEW YORK, — Point Foundation (Point) will honor actor Jonathan Groff, with the Point Horizon Award. The Award recognizes a young trailblazer who has taken a leadership role as an advocate of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community. Groff, currently starring in HBO’s critically acclaimed series “Looking” and appearing in the Public Theater’s…
Can’t wait to get that next Dolce & Gabbana outfit or luxury accessory? You may want to think again. Following an interview with Italy’s Panorama magazine in which Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana declared, “The only family is the traditional one. No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things…
