The recent TV talent shows featuring elaborate and intricate displays of amazing abilities bring back fond memories of the less sophisticated, yet in many ways more enjoyable, local contests of long ago. Remember, seniors, the hard wooden chairs of the grange hall, lodge or auditorium and our home-grown stars; some appearing yearly and some nervously…
Riding a wave of Russian homophobia, neighboring Kazakhstan, the world’s largest landlocked country by land area, plans to introduce legislation in September that would shutter gay clubs, bar protests from the LGBT community and prevent what officials are calling the propagandization of alternative lifestyles. Member of the Majilis (the lower chamber of the parliament) Aldan…
http://youtu.be/H4gyZWlZm7o A popular Russian news anchor has declared that the hearts of gay people should be ‘buried or burned’ and that they are “unsuitable for a continuation of life. Queerty.com reported that Dmitri Kisilev, deputy general director of Rossiya 1, Russia’s state-owned and government-controlled news network, was discussing Putin’s new “gay propaganda” laws on “Vesti”, the…
Given the historic nature of Coy Mathis’ victory, it would perhaps be fodder for media dissection long after the ruling came down. But, sandwiched as it was between some of the nation’s most transcendent moments in LGBT history, her story has all but disappeared from our collective national consciousness. Yet it bears repeating if we…
You’ve seen the original video Gays Will Marry Your Girlfriends and the response from the straight men. Now watch the collaboration take this to the next level!
As we bask in the glory of the life-affirming Supreme Court rulings concerning marriage equality, the inevitable question is where do we go from here? While there are 13 states, plus the District of Columbia, that have marriage equality, there are 37 states that do not. When the framers of the Constitution established the three…
This is my 100th brief! Looking back over the lgbtweekly.jeffjungblut.com Web site, I was especially pleased to re-live certain memories, i.e. Mine is Bigger than Yours (issue 26), High School Reunion (51), What’s a Dingleberry (36) and to review my advice in Beating Around the Bush (42), De-gay or Not De-gay (81), The Size of…
Bremerton, WA (KCPQ/CNN)) — The pastor of a Roman Catholic church in Bremerton has announced that his parish will no longer have any involvement with the Boy Scouts of America in light of the organization’s recent vote to allow gay youths to join. The Rev. Derek Lappe, 41, pastor of the Our Lady Star of…
Since the enactment of anti-gay ‘propaganda’ laws that have overwhelmingly passed in some of Russia’s largest cities, the LGBT community is seeing a discernible rise in violent crimes. Recently, a young gay man, Vladislav Tornovoi, was brutally attacked then killed after he admitted to his drinking buddies that he was gay. In Volgograd, the 23-year-old…
CHICAGO – A new hall of fame – the first of its kind in the U.S. – has been established to honor individuals and organizations whose achievements and efforts have enhanced the fields of sports and athletics for the gay and lesbian community. The National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame, a 501 (c)(3)…
