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Wednesday, July 30
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Source: St. Petersburg Times , St. Petersburg Times , WFTS TV Gallery owner William Schramm is constrained by St. Peterburg police photo: Chris Zuppa, St. Petersburg Times ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- The owner of a gay erotic art gallery who was arrested Friday night after allegedly assaulting a St. Petersburg police officer says the city violated his civil rights and pledges to file suit against city for closing down an art show at his gallery. Sgt. Joseph Collins attempted to enter the 2501 Erotic Lounge Gallery Friday night when he was confronted by the gallery's owner, William Schramm, WFTS TV...
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Friday, May 16
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Source: Globe and Mail Toronto -- The third largest gay and lesbian film and video festival in the world, after those in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Inside Out, Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival opened last night and continues its 18th edition over the next 10 days with several new initiatives -- including the well-curated Icon Documentary Series. The Icon series is a self-contained unit of six excellent films, focused on figures strongly connected to the visual arts. Inside Out director of programming Jason St-Laurent says the series provides a useful niche within the larger event...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Daily Collegian Album cover art by Howard Cruse image: Tom Wilson Weinberg State College, Penn -- In 1975, cartoonist Howard Cruse was a staff artist at a Birmingham, Ala. ad agency. But beginning at dawn each day until he had to leave for work, Cruse would spend his time writing and drawing comics for underground comic publications. "Underground comics meant cutting the bullshit and getting to the truth," Cruse said. Last night, Cruse spoke about his life and the comics he has created as a reflection of some of his own life experiences. Those experiences range from growing up...
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Saturday, April 19
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Women's Sports Foundation Images of out gay athletes from Jeff Sheng's exhibit, "Fearless" photos by Jeff Sheng DANVILLE, Calif. -- Students at San Ramon Valley High School are teaching their classmates and the community that saying something is "so gay" is so uncool. Members of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance, which has been on campus for about 10 years, designated last week Gay Pride Week on campus. Students have been spreading awareness about accepting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. As co-presidents of the Gay...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: Bloomberg.com (Bloomberg) -- British Museum Director Neil MacGregor, who is drawing thousands of visitors with an exhibition on the Chinese ruler Qin Shihuangdi, plans to fete another epoch- making sovereign this year: the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Sponsored by BP Plc, Hadrian: Empire and Conflict (July 24 - Oct. 26) will feature some 200 loans from 31 countries and take place in the British Museum's specially refitted circular Reading Room. Hadrian ruled the Roman Empire from 117 to 138 A.D. and ordered the building of a wall dividing England and Scotland. Hadrian is part of "a series...
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Sunday, January 06
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Source: Times (London) THE Dutch were debating the limits of freedom of expression last week after an artist who photographed gay men wearing masks of the prophet Muhammad was forced into hiding and her work removed from a museum exhibit. Speaking on the telephone from an unspecified location in the Netherlands last week, the artist, an Iranian exile who goes by the pseudonym of Sooreh Hera, said she had been threatened with “execution”. She accused the director of the municipal museum in The Hague of cowardice for caving in to Muslim extremists. Her story is a reminder of the tensions that have...
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Wednesday, January 02
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Source: Manchester Evening News A UNIQUE Manchester-based arts company has launched a battle for survival after being told that its funding of almost £100,000 will be axed from March. Queer Up North, which celebrates gay and lesbian arts and culture, is one of the victims of cuts announced by Arts Council England. And unless the decision is overturned, the company says it will close. Launched in 1992, Queer Up North claims to be `Europe's leading queer festival' and a Manchester institution. Axing its funding would not only mean the closure of the festival in May, but an end to plans for...
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Sunday, December 02
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Source: Chicago Tribune by Sid Smith They constitute an awesome assembly of mid-20th Century artists. "Did others better evoke Americans' joys and pains than Tennessee Williams in 'The Glass Menagerie' (1945) and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1947) or Thornton Wilder in 'Our Town' (1938)? Did they exceed Aaron Copland in evoking spacious plains, cowboys and rural life, or Samuel Barber at conveying loss in Adagio for Strings (1938)? Who bettered Leonard Bernstein in his musical 'On the Town' (1944) at expressing wartime exuberance or urban energy, or Cole...
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Sunday, November 04
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Source: Baltimore Sun In Baltimore and elsewhere, hip-hop has found an unlikely ally in the gay community. The support is shocking because homosexuality completely challenges almost every rule that governs the testosterone-driven rap industry, which is hip-hop culture's crown jewel. Not only are there are no successful mainstream gay rappers, but gay slurs also are frequently tossed into rap lyrics. The support is also surprising given the troubled year rap music has had. Critics have attacked the misogynistic and violent lyrics that dominate hit rap singles. The strange love relationship between...
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Friday, November 02
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Source: Bloomberg Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Gay cowboys and drag queens doing erotic dances find their way into Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" in Munich. The Polish stage director, Krzysztof Warlikowski, turns this classic romance into a gay love triangle, and was roundly booed for his efforts at the premiere. Cast and conductor enjoyed a warmer reception. Lensky loves Olga, Tatyana loves Onegin, and Onegin loves only himself. A little late -- after he has killed Lensky in a duel and Tatyana has married Prince Gremin -- Onegin regrets his former snobbery. That's the way Tchaikovsky...
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Sunday, October 28
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Source: EW.com by Mark Harris Now she tells us? When I first heard that J.K. Rowling had revealed the homosexuality of Professor Albus Dumbledore, esteemed headmaster of Hogwarts, before a packed congregation of children and adults at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 19, my reaction was half appreciation, half annoyance. Ten years, seven books, 4,000 pages, and it never occurred to her to mention this before? At least she didn't make the gay character a fairy (or a troll), so we'll be spared those jokes, I thought. Rowling's announcement felt almost too strategic, a gotcha! she conveniently withheld...
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Saturday, October 27
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Source: Sunday Herald Rikki Beadle-Blair in his play Metrosexuality A LEADING gay writer has accused Scotland of failing to adequately tackle homophobic bullying after 50 schools in and around Glasgow turned down his powerful stage play about the issue. Rikki Beadle-Blair, who wrote a film about the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York and Channel 4's 2001 comedy drama Metrosexuality, claimed teachers were "frightened" that his production, Fit, would encourage young people to confront their sexuality. Beadle-Blair, 46, thought the show would be welcomed after successfully showing it to...
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Wednesday, October 24
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Source: The Dartmouth Students hurrying through the Collis Student Center a little slower than most may have noticed the recent addition of around 20 photographs of athletes on display. Titled "Fearless," the exhibition documents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered athletes in colleges and high schools across the nation, including Dartmouth: sprinter Jamal Brown '08, lacrosse goalie Andrew Goldstein '05 and Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson's son, Jack, a skiier and 2007 graduate of Williams College. "Fearless" is the brainchild of photographer Jeff Sheng...
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Tuesday, October 23
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Source: The Guardian Sylvia Wolf reviews a collection of early Mapplethorpe photographs, including many of Patti Smith Robert Mapplethorpe's sexually explicit, homoerotic photographs made him one of the most notorious photographers of the 1980s and a lightning rod for social and political conservatives. But before these works - and before his equally famous nudes, flower studies and celebrity portraits made between the late 1970s and his death from Aids in 1989 - Mapplethorpe was taking hundreds of Polaroids. This remarkable treasure trove of more than 1,500 photographs, the majority of them...
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