SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Artists have often used their creativity to give voice to their strengths and struggles. This year, both Tate Britain’s Queer British Art 1861-1967 and Leslie-Lohman, Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art’s Art AIDS America took a look back in time at the contributions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)…
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – LA Pride have announced that this year’s LA Pride Grand Marshal will be Alexei Romanoff. A fierce advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, Alexei has spent a majority of his life fighting for equality. On the 47th anniversary of the world’s first permitted LGBTQ+ parade, LA Pride and Christopher Street West, remain…
https://youtu.be/0zVfOn2sf6s LOS ANGELES, Calif. – How It All Began, a new original series written and directed by Dennis Nollette will premiere on Amazon Video Tuesday May 16 distributed by Together Magic Films. The episodic series centers on the romantic relationship between a late-middle-aged gay man and a twenty-something millennial. The official synopsis reads: “Late-middle-aged Dennis…
The Mormon church has announced that it will ” … no longer charter Varsity or Venturing units with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and Scouts Canada effective Jan. 1 2018.” As a result of the Mormon church’s decision to pull out of these programs, meant for boys aged 14-18, the Boy Scouts expects to…
NEW YORK – GLAAD has announced its participation in the 2017 Concert for Love and Acceptance June 8 at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville. The show champions LGBTQ rights and will benefit at-risk youth. Ty Herndon and CMT’s Cody Alan will host, and the event will feature Billy Gillman, Dana Goldberg, Kree Harrison, Lorrie Morgan,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Next week, thousands of parents, educators and allies across the nation will stand in solidarity with transgender students by hosting school and community readings of I Am Jazz, a children’s book by transgender teen trailblazer Jazz Jennings. Following a year of unprecedented attacks on the rights and dignity of transgender young people…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — “Picturing Kinship: Portraits of Our Community,” a new exhibition offering a 35-year overview of portraits in painting and photography by San Francisco artist Lenore Chinn, opens June 9 at the GLBT History Museum. The subjects are individuals who have contributed to the diversity of San Francisco’s cultural landscape in such fields…
LONDON — Josh Gutteridge, a gay ex-Jehovah’s Witness, speaks about his experience of coming out and being disassociated from his family and religious community in A new BBC series Queer Britain. Queer Britain is presented by YouTuber and journalist Riyadh Khalaf and gets under the skin of queer culture and shines a light on the…
TEL AVIV — The City of Tel Aviv-Yafo announced today that the theme of the 2017 LGBT Pride Parade is “Bisexuality Visibility” The parade will be the first large-scale pride parade in the world to ever celebrate the theme bisexuality. Starting June 3, hundreds of thousands of people from Israel and around the world are…
