After two social experiment videos from Russia and the Ukraine, where a gay couple walking in the streets was insulted and attacked, two Portuguese men decided to conduct the same experiment in their capital city Lisbon. The pair, Lorenzo and Pedro, said, “The result [in Moscow and Kiev] was primitive, sad and disgusting. It was…
Team Canada is set to make history at this month’s World Dodgeball Federation World Championships as it fields its first out trans dodgeball player. Savannah Burton, will take to the court at Tarkanian Basketball Academy in Las Vegas Nevada this weekend as part of Team Canada, reports Pink News. Burton, who is also a professional…
There has been plenty of controversy surrounding the release of the trailer for the upcoming movie Stonewall, which tells a story about the 1969 riots in which queer people pushed back against police harassment. The trailer focuses on a cis white boy who moved to New York just in time to spark the riots. And…
You are the human resources manager and you get down to the last two candidates for the position of blah blah blah. You thought decisions this difficult could never land in your lap, but here it is …waiting for your answer. Both applicants are outstanding and have the skills to move forward with success. You…
“It’s perfect!” Once upon a time, those words were music to your ears – but then you grew up. You learned then that a made bed didn’t make the man, good enough generally was and, as in the new book Bobby Wonderful by Bob Morris, sometimes it’s better to ignore perfection and focus on a…
Director Roland Emmerich has spoken out in support of his upcoming film Stonewall, defending the project against accusations that it ignored the role drag queens, the transgender community, and people of color played in the 1969 riots in Greenwich Village. The controversy arose after the release of the movie’s first trailer. Wrote Emmerich on Facebook: When I…
LGBT discrimination does exist in Sweden as two Swedish journalists from STLHM Panda discovered as they conducted an experiment to find out if revealing you’re gay would make a difference to the hiring process. The Advocate reports that one candidate, Olle, was openly gay with plenty of experience; the other job seeker, a straight man…
This week, New Yorkers woke up to find Calvin Klein Jeans’ new fall campaign, which features a gay couple for the first time in the brand’s history, posted on one of the biggest billboards in the city. Julien Sauvalle at Out.com, who took the picture of the billboard writes, “The picture, lensed by Mario Sorrenti,…
London filmmaker discusses his trailblazing LGBT short movie {Brace} Brace, writer/director Jake Graf’s short/indie pic about a whole slew of things transsexual, has taken on a life of itself. A queer film festival favorite, Brace has pleased a wide variety of audiences and cultures but few, I’ve found, really say why. It might be…
Many summer concerts will come and go this year, just like they have in years past, and in years to come. It’s a summertime expectation that music venues here in San Diego and everywhere else will book some of rocks top headliners and selling their auditoriums out to excited and appreciative fans. Two years ago…
