LGBT
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
LGBT Film Reeling Film Festival to go on hiatus
Posted by Ben Sachs on 05.22.12 at 12:20 PM
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Piety LGBT Punch my Mancard!
Posted by Sam Worley on 05.17.12 at 07:46 AM
I also wondered: How does one get one's Mancard revoked? Luckily it's explained in the small print:
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Whoa LGBT Music Tom Gabel of Against Me! comes out as transgender
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 05.09.12 at 11:16 AM
- Hroyer
- Tom Gabel
Gabel began Against Me! as a solo project in 1997, then pieced together a band for the anthem-loaded 2002 album Reinventing Axl Rose. Long known for playing DIY folk-punk and relentlessly grinding through basement tours, Against Me! caught flak from DIY loyalists when they moved to well-known punk label Fat Wreck Chords in 2003. That backlash was followed by a bonkers shitstorm when the band signed a major-label deal with Sire in 2005—but they've since parted ways with the label. Against Me! started recording their sixth album this past February.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Books Do This LGBT It gets Savager in Elmhurst
Posted by Jerome Ludwig on 04.27.12 at 04:42 PM
The goal of the project is to inspire bullied youths (particularly gay and lesbian kids) to hang in there and persevere despite their daily challenges because, well, "it gets better." Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, got the ball rolling in 2010 with a single video they made together. Savage hoped the project would eventually encompass 100 videos, he notes in the introduction to his book It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
LGBT Media Born this gay
Posted by Sam Worley on 01.24.12 at 03:08 PM
- Nick Step
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Onstage LGBT Arts Kari Lydersen on Miss Ketty
Posted by Sam Worley on 09.27.11 at 12:24 PM
Ketty Teanga learned to dance in a drag show in Puerto Rico in the 60s. Then a slim teen increasingly uncomfortable in a male body, she did salsa dancing dressed in skimpy women's outfits, the closest she could come to looking the way she felt. "There was no silicone, no hormones, nothing," she says. "Everything was illusion—fake wigs, fake titties."
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
LGBT Film I Am the Queen
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on 03.30.11 at 04:22 PM
Josue Pellot may be best known for his neon signs in Humboldt Park that might look like beer ads at first glance, but actually depict the bloody conflict between Conquistadores and native Tainu in Puerto Rico.
Pellot was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Humboldt Park. He first collaborated with Brazil-born multimedia artist Henrique Cirne-Lima on a six-minute video documentary about Division Street domino players in the West Side neighborhood.
Then he ran across a flyer for the Cacique Pageant, a transgender beauty contest put on each May by Vida/SIDA, the HIV-awareness and sex education program of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Pellot and Cirne-Lima decided to embark on a documentary about the pageant, the second in what they plan as a series of video portraits of the community.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
LGBT Lit & Lectures Books Dan Savage and Terry Miller: It Gets Better
Posted by Jerome Ludwig on 03.22.11 at 04:39 PM
- Kelly O.
- Terry Miller, Dan Savage
It Gets Better, the book, grew from Savage and Miller's YouTube project of the same name.
For more on the It Gets Better Project see itgetsbetter.org.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
LGBT Film An Evening with Coquie Hughes
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on 01.06.11 at 03:49 PM
Since 2006, local filmmaker and playwright Coquie Hughes has been interviewing African American families led by lesbian and bisexual women for a documentary called My Mama Said Yo Mama's a Dyke. When that project stalled, Hughes fictionalized stories from her interviews into a new fictional comedy of the same name.
Hughes has explored the place of queer women in black culture in such films as Gotta Get My Hair Did (2000), If I Wuz Yo Girl (2001) and Daughters of the Concrete (2004).
She also founded and runs the media arts training programs Lights Camera Youth Action and a comparable program for adults, Urban Chi Filmmakers.
Hughes opens the eighth season of the Dyke Delicious screening series Saturday 1/8 at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., 2nd Floor. Social hour 7 p.m. Hughes talks and screens clips from her work starting at 8. $10 donation. RSVP here.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Chicagoland LGBT Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment: Defending Backdoor Men from Activist Judges
Posted by Whet Moser on 12.21.10 at 12:47 PM
This year Illinois is losing a House seat, but we picked up two SPLC-official hate groups, including the awesomely acronymed H.O.M.E., or "Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment."
I had not previously heard of H.O.M.E. It turns out that, as far as anti-gay organizations go, they're really for the true connoisseurs: "The esoteric all-male group known as Freemasonry (or Masonry) has been controversial for many many years, and has been connected to the homosexual movement for many years by a number of researchers."
Even better: "There is strong evidence that some movies are being manipulatively used by heterophobic homosexual directors/producers to psychologically condition men to bond with other men at the expense of women." This has not been my experience, but I grew up in the rom/com era, well past the golden age of gladiator and war movies.
But they're not sticks in the mud. Not hardly! According to H.O.M.E., while they can't specifically recommend doing it in an uncomfortable place, anal sex is your constitutional right as a het. Now that's what I call strict constructionism.
