May 2009
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The (L) Word- A Dyke in Every Shade.
With the show airing it’s final episode over a month ago, The L Word has established a lasting legacy. What exactly is that legacy you say? Older lesbians agree that it is the overdue representation of lesbians in mainstream media and television. But the younger lesbian community is singing a slightly different tune…
In my case, The L Word was a bittersweet experience. Coming...
April 2009
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New Hampshire Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill →
How long until N.C.?
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QueerArt Wednesday
Dion Hitchings is an artist from Saint Louis, Missouri currently living in New Jersey. He entered the corporate world and began a long and successful career as an art director. Then, after a trip to the Kentuck Festival of Arts in Alabama, he realized his desire to get back to painting and drawing and to fulfill his dream of being a full-time artist. His artwork is inspired by the people he sees...
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"He Whipped My Ass In Tennis...."
Well queeros, I owe you a ramble on Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band. Off we go.
I didn’t know anything about Pansy Division until I did my pre-film research. Maybe that makes me a bad queer, since they were an integral part of the 90’s Queercore scene… and I didn’t even know what Queercore was until it was mentioned in the movie. Pansy Division, and other cultural...
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“It cannot be argued that marriage between people of the same sex is un American...”
– Steve Schmidt (former campaign advisor to John McCain)
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08-09 Wrap Up
Last night was UNCW PRIDE’s last official meeting of the year. We came together as a group to discuss the programming we put on this year and the kinds of things we’d like to do next year. This year we were honored along with Mi Gente, the campus’s Latino organization, for putting on the most programming. Next year, we want to be even bigger and better.
This year our membership reached 120...
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Do you shave your legs?
and indicate whether you identify as male or female (neither or both).
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TODAY! National LGBTQ Equality StorySummit
Check out this live event happening TONIGHT (April 22nd) from 9-10:30pm (EST). There will be speakers from numerous LGBTQ organizations and other orgs working towards LGBTQ equality. They will all be discussing the power of storytelling and how to make use of web2.0 and other social media tools.
My colleague, Molly, will be on the call talking about how filmmakers are sharing the stories of...
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WatchA Gaythering Storm
There is a storm being caused by gay marriage and we are all in serious trouble. Check out Hollywood’s take on it… I remember when Sophia Bush stopped by Wilmington’s Prop 8 rally last year…I think it’s cool that people are standing up for gay-marriage, but lets hope it’s just not another publicity stunt.
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Queer Camp - Milwaukee WI
April 25-26th, 2009 Bucketworks 1340 N 6th St Milwaukee, WI 53212
Queercamp’s mission is to engage the queer community in a discussion. A learning, sharing, growing, passionate environment for creating an inclusive gathering place for all community members, emerging leaders, and loving supporters.
Queercamp is an “unconference” where gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, queer,...
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Bishop Robinson on S-Sex Marriage
Bishop Robinson is the openly gay Episcopal bishop from New Hampshire. You may remember him as the holy man who got snubbed at one of Obama’s inauguration bashes.
Yesterday, Robinson was in Studio City & addressed at crowd at St. Michael & All Angels Church with his thoughts on same-sex marriage. As opposed to a “yea” or “nay” vote, Robinson joined the...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Gay Man
In the mirror there is no face peering back. On the stage there is only a performer, a pale, homeless body parading about wearing a myriad of masks stretching the confining terms of tragedy and comedy, history and romance, so that each melds into the other, and all that remains is a theatrical show that renders the spectators confused and laughing to hide that confusion. This is the drama of being...
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Call to Action - Duke University, Durham NC
Thanks amindy07 for the heads up! pulled info from the facebook event:
On Monday April 20, the Westboro Baptist Church will be gracing Duke with its presence, from 7:30am-8:00am. For those of you who don’t know, this group has been labeled a terrorist group by the ACLU, and spews some of the most ludicrous hate speech of any groups currently at work in the US.
“Well, we wish it were...
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Lez Have a Gay Ol' Time in Brooklyn...
Hey there guys n gals (in-betweens n silver-linings, too) of the NY area - It looks like Sunday April 19 will be a queertastic (albeit rainy) day in Brooklyn. Here’s where you can find me, and some other lovely queeros:
thinkBOOM, 4-7pm, Bushwick (L train to DeKalb)
“thinkBOOM is a fresh, new monthly event for artists, writers and passionate thinkers to come together and connect...
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"Say My Name" Women in Hip Hop
This ain’t no Destiny’s Child song. Oh hell no, these girls are real and they mean business. Say My Name is the name of a documentary film that played at Full Frame a few weeks ago all about female rappers and hip hop artists. It was great to see MC Lyte and my fave, Erykah Badu talking about misogyny and sexism in the hip hop industry. The film also interviews openly out, detroit...
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QueerArt Wednesday
William Conroy Lindsay moved from his small hometown of Merrimack, NH to NYC in 1998 to attend Wagner College as a theater major. He began his work in 1998 sitting in a literature class at college. With just a pen and a notebook listening to lectures, out of boredom and to escape reality for awhile, he would fill hundreds of pages with his never ending squiggle line. After a few years of studying...
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WatchMary Anne Hewett fills us in on some of the events you can take part in at Frank’s Family Fun Fest this May!
Visit The Frank Harr Foundation’s website to read about the remarkable man behind the name.
St. Jude’s Metropolitan Community Church - Wilmington’s only queer-friendly church!
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PRIDE Update
Hello, all!
Welcome to my very first post. I debated doing a little “getting-to-know-you” post, but I’d much rather keep you guys up to date with the on campus queer community.
UNCW PRIDE is putting on our annual drag show this Saturday at 7:30 in the Warwick Center Ballroom. Divas Live is FREE this year so, you have one less excuse not to join us. I have to say that this is probably my...
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The Queer Class Divide
This is something that has bothered me for a very long time. You would think that the queer community would be more aware of the privileges we do and do not have based on our race, class, education, etc. Shockingly, I find that ignorance has no boundaries no matter your minority status. The queer community is reflected in our media as affluent white gay men and lipstick lesbians. Queers United...
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Amazon's Epic Fail
I’m sure you’ve heard as it’s been all over the internet this weekend that Amazon.com had a “glitch” which caused all of their gay and lesbian books to be classified as Adult books, thus removing their sales ranking (which is the basis of their search engine algorithums). Now, if you search for books using the term “homosexuality”, the very first item that...
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Being out of the closet is a responsibility not a...
Barbara Grier said, “It is the closet that is our sin and shame.” This is a bold statement. If LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) individuals want to mount a meaningful challenge to heterosexism, bold statements will be required. For too long it has been deemed acceptable by the LGBT community to argue for acceptance of LGBT individuals who “choose” to stay in the...
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Queero Wilmington Meeting
Attention all Queeros in Wilmington! We have a ton of events coming up this summer. Just take a look to your left at our “Upcoming Events” section to see for yourself. Like always, our main priority is COMMUNITY. but we can’t do that without you, of course. So please come out Wednesday April 15th @ 6pm at UNCW’s Fisher Student Center to find out more about the events &...
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Ninio, The Gay Elephant
In LGBTQ Global and trans-species news:
“We didn’t pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there,” Michal Grzes, a conservative politician in western Poland, said.
Grzes goes on to express his disappointment that Poland’s prized 10 year-old elephant, Ninio, has been spending most of his time in the company...
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“Sometimes I feel really lonely and like no one cares about me. And I think...”
– Kate Mabe, student at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, N.C. (@Qnotes)
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Bark Louder than my Bite in Love
I want to live in her arms where it’s warm She knows how safe I feel there says I am welcome to stay Make my bed on the crook of her neck Cover with the blanket of her being Get lost there Where clocks don’t belong I want to rob her of her swag Wear it when my self esteem is absent Watch her sleep in peace As her lips move ever so softly mumbling something like… You know...
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“The bizarre inscrutability of these crappy little ads is the surest sign yet...”
– Fear the rainbow! / A storm is gathering. Are you afraid, Christian? Are you afraid *enough*?
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Queer Film at The Juggling Gypsy
Greetings, Queeros! As some of you may know, the Juggling Gypsy holds the Subversive Film Series every Sunday night at 8pm. It showcases all kinds of films, from narratives to documentaries, avant-garde classics to experimental A-lists to stand-up comedy, and everything in between.
This Sunday night, the 12th, they will be showing “FABULOUS! The Story of Queer Cinema.” It’s...
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Thinking About Getting Married!
I’m sitting here eating an orange and dealing with mixed feelings about the recent gay-marriage victories.
With Vermont’s legislature and Iowa’s Supreme Court legalizing same sex marriage, millions of queers are eagerly hoping to dash towards altars and bind their love with a state sanctioned contract. Simultaneously millions of hetero assholes are trying to strip away this basic civil right.
I...
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"Iowa’s Family Values," taken from NY Times
By STEVEN W. THRASHER Published: April 8, 2009 If it weren’t for Iowa, my family may never have existed, and this gay, biracial New Yorker might never have been born.
In 1958, when my mother, who was white, and father, who was black, wanted to get married in Nebraska, it was illegal for them to wed. So they decided to go next door to Iowa, a state that was progressive enough to allow...
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Go see the lezzy version of Romeo and Juliet... →
In opposition of Prop 8 and North Carolina’s Defense of Marriage Act:
Guerilla Theatre Presents Romeo and Juliet at Brown Coat Theatre
“We are presenting William Shakespeare’s classic tale of romantic tragedy as a lesbian love story in hopes of raising awareness about these discriminatory acts and to encourage others to join in this our modern civil rights struggle”
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Vermont legalizes gay marriage with veto override →
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so with a legislature’s vote.
The Legislature voted Tuesday to override Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto of a bill allowing gays and lesbians to marry. The vote was 23-5 to override in the state Senate and 100-49 to override in the House. Under Vermont law, two-thirds of each chamber had to...
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Positive Queer Role Models
Yesterday I was hanging out with a friend in Brooklyn, and somehow the topic got around to Teh Gay (as it so often does) and the queer adults in our lives when we were children. (Two of our closest family friends are a lesbian couple, which I didn’t realize until I was in high school; Sig Fig has two sets of gay uncles; J recently tripped the gaydar of her family friends.)
J said something that I...
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how does my gender define me? it doesn't!
If I could live in an ideal world, there wouldn’t be a need to identify oneself with either gender (male or female). This is a topic that is oftentimes confusing to me. I am happy with my biological female anatomy for the most part. When I was little, I thought that I wanted to be a boy, but only because I was socialized to believe that only boys played outside and were allowed to get dirty. I...
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Questioning Maleness: Constructing Homosexual...
My friend and I were having a conversation about sex—is there anything new under the sun! We were discussing the idea that gay men do not like being gay, that we hate ourselves for being homosexual. This then is why when we talk about it we usually speak of it in whispers—we state in low tones that we are gay, as if we cannot believe it’s the case, but simultaneously it is exactly that—that we are...
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QueerArt Wednesday
“Art is important to every community, art is culture, it reflects life. But since the queer community gets so much negativity aimed at it through certain groups of people, it’s always good to see a positive thing in our community. Also, others who are not part of the queer community can see that we are not the negative influence that too many groups claim us to be.”
Melanie...
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Gay Charlotte Film Festival & Full Frame...
Two fim festivals will be taking place this week.
Gay Charlotte Film Festival - April 3rd - 5th, 2009
@ the Lesbian & Gay Community Center of Charlotte, 820 Hamilton St., Suite B-11, Charlotte NC
Three days of queer films! What more could you ask for? Check out the line up here.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival - April 2nd - 5th, 2009
Durham NC
This is a huge festival that brings in...