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Saturday, May 10
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Source: Arizona Republic , East Valley Tribune Scottsdale, Ariz. -- A dance club here that was once the subject of a high-profile discrimination complaint by a trans woman who was kicked out has now become what Arizona Republic calls "the Valley's premier club for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community." It's become one of only two gay clubs in the college town that borders Phoenix. With its new name and outreach to the LGBT community, Club Forbidden has attracted overflow crowds each weekend. Long lines are a regular feature of the club. On a Saturday night a Republic...
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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Xtra West Vancouver's Odyssey nightclub, a gay stomping ground for over two decades, is looking for a new home following surprise announcement that construction on the club's current site will be begin quickly, Xtra West reports. The site of the classic and friendly "dive" club that has recently featured dancing along with drag shows and strippers is set to become supportive housing for people with HIV/AIDS "We were given notice May 1," said Michael Levy, the Howe St club's co-owner, adding he had expected the bar to remain at its current site until 2011...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: Montreal Gazette , Canadian Press MONTREAL -- A Montreal gay bar that caters to male clients has settled a discrimination complaint by a woman who was thrown out of the premises. Audrey Vachon, 21, filed a complaint to Quebec's human rights commission last May after she was asked to leave Bar Le Stud because she is a woman. She was sitting at the bar with her father, Gilles Vachon, Montreal Gazette reports. In a statement released today, the human rights commission announced the settlement, but refused to provide specific details. The bar and Vachon agreed to keep the terms of the settlement...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Gay Financial Network , BusinessWire (press release) For gays who have traditionally been on the cutting edge of tech -- we have long-been cited as early adopters of technology observes market researchers like Forrester -- the reading of blogs on a regular basis has become de rigueur , a necessary component for being in the know. When asked, just over half (51 percent) of the gay and lesbian respondents reported reading some type of blog, compared to 36 percent of heterosexual adults. A similar question on blog readership also was asked in November 2006, and at that time 32 percent of gay...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Canadian Press VANCOUVER — They've been bombed three times, received death threats and stood before the red-robed justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. No, Jim Deva and Bruce Smyth are not killers or terrorists. The soft-spoken Vancouver men sell books. And in some peoples' eyes, Deva says, that made the gay owners of Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium dangerous. "Because we were (openly gay) and we were very, very blatant about being open . . . we were threatening to homophobes," Deva says. Only two years after the store opened in 1983, the owners took on...
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: San Francisco Business Times , CitizenCrain Gay and lesbian media portal PlanetOut Inc. agreed to sell its magazine and book publishing business to Here Networks for $6 million in cash. PlanetOut publishes Out and Advocate and several other magazines, but wants to return its focus to its web sites gay.com and planetout.com. San Francisco-based PlanetOut signed a letter of intent with Regent Releasing, an affiliate of New York-based Here, which is a gay and lesbian television network, San Francisco Business Times reports. Blogger Chris Crain, former editor of Washington Blade , notes that...
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Sunday, March 23
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Source: Palm Beach Post , South Florida Sun Sentinel Michael Brown WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A prominent south Florida gay activist and bar owner was killed last week by his ex-boyfriend, police say, in what they're calling a murder-suicide. Michael Brown, owner of HG Roosters, a bar that has been a gathering spot for the city's gay community for more than two decades, was beaten and stabbed to death by a former boyfriend who was found dead in his apartment with him Friday evening, police have determined. On Saturday night scores of men and women packed HG Roosters, where candles flickered...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Oregonian Years after Bill Stein came out to friends and colleagues, he moved near family in Portland and went back into hiding. If a resident of his westside retirement home makes an anti-gay slur, Stein, 86, says nothing. "I'm, by nature, chicken," the retired anthropology professor said. " If you don't say, 'I'm gay,' you pass. I'm pretty well closeted." On Valentine's Day, Stein drove to the conservative side of Multnomah County to visit Rainbow Vista in Gresham, one of the first retirement homes in the nation marketed to gay seniors....
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Tuesday, March 04
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Source: BBC News , GayWired , The Sword , Angel's City Devil photo: BlakeMason.com (NSFW) where condoms are always used Porn producer Chi Chi Larue urges a boycott of porn titles that feature bareback sex photo via: Angel's City Devil Three gay porn films have been withdrawn from sale in Britain following an investigation by the BBC program Newsnight. The report looked into the health risks of so-called bareback gay porn, which shows men having unprotected sex. It follows concerns within the gay community that performers are being infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Indianapolis Star Bil Browning is the kind of guy who has a hard time finding motivation to keep a journal. Now, he writes all day for his blog, The Bilerico Project, one of the nation's top political Web sites for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. The difference? For one, money. The Indianapolis man is one of just a few bloggers in the country who've managed to turn their hobby of spouting off online into an actual business. In just four years, The Bilerico Project has grown from a Web site about Indiana politics and the gay community to a national blog with...
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Monday, February 04
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Source: Press release and Gay Wired It is a fight that has raged on nearly as long as the war in Iraq, but the battle in this instance is not against terrorism but to save one of Laguna Beach’s oldest gay watering holes, the landmark Coast Inn and Boom Boom Room which has now been closed for nearly five months. Thought to have been the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the U.S., the Boom Boom Room began life in the 1920s as a serviceman’s bar before showing its true colors -- and attracting a predominantly LGBT clientele -- in the 1940s. As reported earlier by GayWired.com , although the...
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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: Associated Press via Houston Chronicle and Seeking Alpha NEW YORK (AP) Shares of PlanetOut Inc. sank to an all-time low Tuesday after the media company, which serves the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, said it was considering a possible sale of the company. PlanetOut shares fell $1.37, or 22.1 percent, to close at $4.83. Earlier, the stock traded as low as $4.60 -- its lowest since a reverse stock split in early October. For the first nine months of 2007, PlanetOut reported a loss of $33.1 million on revenues of $39.8 million. Late Monday, the San Francisco-based company...
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Saturday, January 05
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Source: Bay Windows Matthew Bank, CEO of HX Media, which owns IN Newsweekly , fired the paper’s associate publisher, Bill Berggren, Jan. 2. Berggren’s termination comes less than a month after four of the paper’s longtime freelancers, including former editor Fred Kuhr and religion columnist Rev. Irene Monroe, left the paper, claiming that the paper has lost editorial focus and that they have waited months for HX Media to pay them for their work. HX Media, a New York-based company that publishes both the New York Blade and HX magazine, purchased IN Newsweekly last year. Berggren, an eight-year veteran...
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Saturday, December 29
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Source: East Valley Tribune and Arizona Republic Scottsdale, Ariz. -- Anderson’s Fifth Estate, which had a 25-year run as a downtown Scottsdale nightclub and was most recently known for its ban on transgendered patrons, is now a gay dance club. Club Forbidden will open its doors tonight in the same building that once housed the rock, comedy and dance club at 6820 E. Fifth Ave. “This will be more like a New York nightclub and I couldn’t do that under Anderson’s Fifth Estate,” owner Tom Anderson said. Anderson, who recently lifted his ban on transgendered customers and settled a discrimination dispute...
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Friday, December 28
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Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune While drinking never gets old, where we do it changed a bit in 2007. When you look at this year's best new bars, nightclubs didn't dominate as they have in the past. While two newbies stayed busy, the club scene as a whole sagged, according to some club owners. Oversaturation, anyone? But that's where the year's surprises come in -- and there were several. First off, the gay bar scene, which had seen several closings in the past couple years, was rejuvenated with three new spots. PI BAR AND RESTAURANT -- This lesbian bar filled a void left by the...
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Saturday, December 01
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Source: Boston Globe THE FIRST THING I ever did to identify myself as a gay man - before coming out to a friend or relative, before putting a rainbow-flag pin on my jacket - was to walk into a gay bar. This was not so unusual in the early 1990s, when few gay men identified as such before they left high school. Some of us needed to walk around the block four or five times before finally pushing open a dimly lit, unmarked door. At the time, there were plenty of dimly lit doors in Boston. The Napoleon Club was a piano bar near Park Square that attracted theater students and older men who left big...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: Dallas Morning News If, as expected, Crossroads Market closes in the next few weeks, Phil Johnson has to remind himself that the cause of its death is something its founders always wanted. Opened originally as a junk store, Crossroads Market served as much as a community center as a business. The epicenter of gay activism in Dallas, the bookstore was a place where political candidacies were born and AIDS relief was organized. Its founders included a who's-who of early Dallas gay leaders including William Waybourn, Craig Spaulding, Terry Tebedo, Bill Nelson and Mr. Johnson. "It...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Wearing sparkles in his faux hawk for the occasion, David Briggs shook one of the last cocktails behind the bar at Manray on Thursday night. Though the bar will be open for a short time Friday evening -- "until the liquor runs out," Briggs said -- this was the going-away party. Or goodbye party. Briggs, the manager at the Capitol Hill bar, wasn't quite sure. "I know. What is it?" he said. "Good-something. There's nothing good about it." It's the last in a week of last calls for the block on East Pine Street, between Belmont...
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Saturday, November 24
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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel Some chronicle the news: the presidential race, sexual abuse scandals, gay marriage, adoption. Others cover the flashier, more frivolous side of being gay in South Florida: entertainment, fashion, travel, circuit parties, and lots of pictures. From the weekly newspaper to the monthly glossy magazines, niche publications targeting South Florida's gay and lesbian community fill stands inside shops and restaurants, pile high near coffeehouse doors from South Beach to Vero Beach, and welcome tourists at guesthouses around Fort Lauderdale. In all, at least a dozen...
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Sunday, November 11
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Source: Haaretz After four years in operation, the Shushan Pub, the only one for Jerusalem's gay and lesbian community, has closed down. "Shushan is the only place in Israel where the Haredi [ultra-Orthodox], Arabs, religious and secular could sit together and have a good time," says pub owner Saar Netanel, who also serves on the Jerusalem city council for the left-wing party Meretz. "When they left Shushan, each returned to his own ghetto." One of the workers continues: "Haredim would come here mainly on Mondays and Fridays. There were not many of them, but it was...
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Monday, October 29
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RainbowVisions markets its communities to gay and lesbian retirees with images, including these, on their website . Some residents fear they're now marketing too much to non-gay buyers Source: Gay Financial Network It's been nearly a year and a half since Santa Fe's first gay retirement community began welcoming residents. From the outside, the $35 million RainbowVision Properties is undeniably beautiful: 146 units spread out over 13 acres. With condos ranging from $250,000 to $310,000, the site offers panoramic views of the Sangre de Cristo, Sandia, Jemez and Ortiz mountains, and is...
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Friday, October 12
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(Vancouver Sun) Two Vancouver businessmen are in the planning stages to build a luxury retirement complex for gays. Partnered with RainbowVision of Santa Fe, N.M., Dean Malone and Darren Stoltz have held three quietly advertised "town hall"...
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Thursday, October 11
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Atlantis Events, Inc., will acquire the originator of the gay and lesbian cruise concept, RSVP Vacations, the company said Thursday. PlanetOut, Inc. is selling the cruise unit. "We're thrilled to bring Atlantis and RSVP together into the same...
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Friday, October 05
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Residents of a gay retirement community in America are worried the special ambiance of their "private oasis" could be ruined by an influx of straight people. RainbowVision, billed as the "first community of its kind", opened last year...
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Monday, October 01
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CHICAGO -- The second annual Gay History Project, a package of features centered on October's Gay History Month, will run in more than 30 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) newspapers, the project's founder and coordinator, Philadelphia...
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