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MORNING PRAYER: IN REMEMBRANCE OF MATTHEW SHEPARD on what would have been his 46th Birthday
MORNING PRAYER: IN REMEMBRANCE OF MATTHEW SHEPARD Thursday, December 1, 2022 | 7:00am This annual event by the Washington National Cathedral commemorates the life and legacy of Matthew Shepard, on what would have been his forty-sixth birthday. Matthew was interred at the Cathedral in October 2018, and each year on his birthday his parents…
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Visual AIDS is marking Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day at three FREE premiere events in NYC and Los Angeles!
For Day With(out) Art 2022, Visual AIDS presents Being and Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world. The program features newly commissioned work by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince King (USA), Santiago Lemus and Camilo…
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Some queer ways on how to celebrate Thanksgiving with ‘your chosen family’
There is often too much pressure on us to travel across the country in packed planes to celebrate Thanksgiving with our biological family. The truth is that so many gay people would much rather be with our chosen family (or as Armistead Maupin terms it ‘our logical family‘). It’s even more galling when your parents…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews the re-released ‘Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul)’ a landmark transgender film from 1983
The opening nighttime scene presents people walking at Jorge Manrique Street in Madrid, and for a moment you may recall Rome and Federico Fellini´s masterpiece Nights of Cabiria, but in a matter of seconds, the women in fur coats scream and run away quickly, the police is coming for them in a raid against…
