(SAN FRANCISCO, USA) - On Tuesday, November 28, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society will host “Are Gay Neighborhoods Worth Saving?” This roundtable with community leaders kicks off a new series, “Queer in the City: GLBT Neighborhoods and Urban Planning,” that the GLBT Historical Society will run through next spring. Read more...
Because his political views are perceived as inimical to those of the contemporary GLBT movement, Adolf Brand—who, at the turn of the 20th Century, started the first-ever homophile journal and the second homosexual/bisexual organi-zation—remains less-well-known than his contemporary, Magnus Hirschfeld.
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(UK) - Earlier this year, Digital Spy reported on the launch of two gay channels, The Queer Channel and Pride TV, both hoping to launch this autumn. With Pride TV now looking like it's not coming out of the closet any time soon, The Queer Channel remains the only prospect still on the horizon, albeit it with a delayed launch date. So why is it so hard to get a gay channel off the ground, and is the demand really there? [..] Well, while things have changed for the better in the mainstream, the gay audience is lacking in the non-entertainment department. Where are the documentaries about gay issues, the lifestyle shows, the gay indie films that BBC2 and Channel 4 could once be relied upon to deliver?
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Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on Thursday September 5th 1946 on the small spice island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were both Persian. His father, Bomi, was a civil servant, working as a High Court cashier for the British Government. Freddie's sister, Kashmira, was born in 1952. In 1954, at the age of eight, Freddie was shipped to St Peter's English boarding school in Panchgani, about fifty miles outside Bombay. It was there his friends began to call him Freddie, a name the family also adopted.
Tennessee Williams saved my life. As a 12-year-old boy in suburban Baltimore, I would look up his name in the card catalog at the library and it would read "see Librarian." I wanted these "see Librarian" books - and I wanted them now - but in the late 1950s (and sadly even today), there was no way a warped adolescent like myself could get his hands on one. But I soon figured out that the "see Librarian" books were on a special shelf behind the counter. So when the kindly librarian was helping the "normal" kids with their book reports, I sneaked behind the checkout desk and stole the first book I ever wanted to possess on my own.
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