Feature Story: If you talk about contemporary dance in Washington, dancer and choreographer Helanius Wilkins is bound to enter the conversation. Since 2001, his EDGEWORKS Dance Theater has steadily been gaining momentum, as he and his all-male company of mostly African-American dancers follow a mission to smash stereotypes.
"We come in as men, men who are dancing, men who are making an impact through dance," Wilkins explains. "We're not coming in as gay men or straight men. We're coming to it just as men first. That's where the work starts from. I think there's something very special about starting from that place."
That male-centric description may seem limiting to some, but it has certainly not limited Wilkins, who specifically dubbed EDGEWORDS a contemporary-dance "theater," rather than a "company," in that it allows him and others the opportunity to express themselves beyond dance. ...more
"We come in as men, men who are dancing, men who are making an impact through dance," Wilkins explains. "We're not coming in as gay men or straight men. We're coming to it just as men first. That's where the work starts from. I think there's something very special about starting from that place."
That male-centric description may seem limiting to some, but it has certainly not limited Wilkins, who specifically dubbed EDGEWORDS a contemporary-dance "theater," rather than a "company," in that it allows him and others the opportunity to express themselves beyond dance. ...more
Gauge: Whitman-Walker Clinic has made some changes.
The waiting room at the Max Robinson Center has been named the ''Barbara A. Chinn Waiting Area.'' And the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center now has a ''Mary L. Bahr Public Benefits Room'' and a ''Dr. Patricia D. Hawkins Medical Adherence Room.''
The clinic announced the move April 15, also advising of an upcoming ceremony at a yet to-be-determined date later this year. According to the clinic, the board of directors voted unanimously to honor the three lesbians who were laid off in December of 2008 without severance. ...more
The waiting room at the Max Robinson Center has been named the ''Barbara A. Chinn Waiting Area.'' And the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center now has a ''Mary L. Bahr Public Benefits Room'' and a ''Dr. Patricia D. Hawkins Medical Adherence Room.''
The clinic announced the move April 15, also advising of an upcoming ceremony at a yet to-be-determined date later this year. According to the clinic, the board of directors voted unanimously to honor the three lesbians who were laid off in December of 2008 without severance. ...more
Gauge: When Siva ''Shiva'' Subbaraman first got involved in the D.C. GLBT community in the 1980s, things were a lot different for Asian/Pacific Islanders.
''When I used to go to some of the early meetings in the '80s, all I saw was white women,'' Subbaraman says. ''And I couldn't identify with the white lesbians from that time. I couldn't understand how to put together those two pieces of my identity: being South Asian and being queer. So I left it alone.''
But it wasn't long before Subbaraman, who came to the District from India for graduate studies, found herself involved in KhushDC, a gay group, and Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Sisters (APIQS). She would go on to serve as Asian representative for the Mayor's Committee on LGBT Affairs from 1999 to 2002, before working as the associate director at the Office of LGBT Equity at the University of Maryland. And in August 2008, Subbaraman accepted a position at Georgetown University as the first director of the Catholic institution's LGBTQ Resource Center. ...more
''When I used to go to some of the early meetings in the '80s, all I saw was white women,'' Subbaraman says. ''And I couldn't identify with the white lesbians from that time. I couldn't understand how to put together those two pieces of my identity: being South Asian and being queer. So I left it alone.''
But it wasn't long before Subbaraman, who came to the District from India for graduate studies, found herself involved in KhushDC, a gay group, and Asian/Pacific Islander Queer Sisters (APIQS). She would go on to serve as Asian representative for the Mayor's Committee on LGBT Affairs from 1999 to 2002, before working as the associate director at the Office of LGBT Equity at the University of Maryland. And in August 2008, Subbaraman accepted a position at Georgetown University as the first director of the Catholic institution's LGBTQ Resource Center. ...more
The gay owner of Universal Gear clothing and apparel store at 14th and Q Streets, N.W., has expressed concern that D.C. police have yet to identify or arrest members of the same group of young men who have repeatedly stolen merchandise totaling about $4,000 from his store over the past 18 months.
Owner David Franco, who moved the upscale store from 17th Street to 14th Street in 2007, said the rash of "snatch-and-run" robberies remains unsolved despite the fact that he has turned over to police high-resolution video surveillance footage of a number of the young male suspects taken from cameras installed inside the store. ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP)Hungary's official government publication says gay couples will be able to register domestic partnerships beginning July 1.
The official bulletin says a new law will allow the partnership if both partners are at least 18 years old. The law will prohibit same-sex couples from adopting children together, but will require partners to provide care for each other's children from earlier relationships if the children are recognized as belonging to the partnership.
The bill w as approved by parliament in April and signed by President Laszlo Solyom earlier this week.
In December, Hungary's Constitutional Court annulled a similar law ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)
New York's Assembly is expected to pass a bill this week legalizing same-sex marriage, while Democrats in the Senate are working furiously to get enough votes to turn the proposal into law.
A spokesman for state Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith won't comment on any progress in his chamber. Smith needs just one vote from an upstate Democrat or downstate Republican to pass the measure.
Smith says he won't bring the bill to a vote this session if he isn't sure it will pass. All 30 Republicans in the 62-seat chamber and at least one conservative Democrat have said they oppose the same-sex marriage proposal.
Democratic Sen. T ...
Just a few days shy of what would have been Harvey Milk’s 79th birthday, the state Senate on Thursday, May 14 passed legislation that creates Harvey Milk Day in California in honor of the state’s first openly gay elected official. SB 572, authored by state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), cleared the Senate with a 24-14 [...]
Equality California on Wednesday extended an invitation to Miss California Carrie Prejean to meet with leaders from her home state, as well as representatives from LGBT organizations, gay youth, and a family headed by a same-sex couple. The move came, EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors said, in response to Prejean’s opposition to same-sex marriage, which she [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) told the Bay Area Reporter Wednesday, April 15 that repealing the federal Defense of Marriage Act is not a top priority of hers right now. The speaker said that her two legislative priorities for the LGBT community are passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and the federal hate crimes bill; [...]
Leave it to The Daily Show's Jon Stewart to eviscerate "don't ask, don't tell" with a laugh. 
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs met again Friday with several questions from the White House press corps about the military's continued policy of dismissing openly gay service members. Gibbs faced similar questioning on the matter during Tuesday’s briefing as well. 
The Bard to defend relevancy of his work on May 29 & 30. In 1925, the eyes of the world focused on Tennessee as the teaching of evolution went on trial. Eighty-four years later, in Nashville, the teaching of the plays of William Shakespeare will now...
Games begin Sunday, May 17. by Matt Floyd The Metro Nashville Softball Association (MNSA) recently announced the development of a women's division. The inaugural season will field four teams. A formal draft was held on May 3 with enough players to fill...
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A gay man in Florida has been gunned down in his driveway in what one police officer described as an 'assassination'
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to review the state's gay marriage ban
Kushner's new 'gay play' premieres tonight at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis
…to illustrate the way Massachusetts has fallen into the Atlantic Ocean since recognizing legal same-sex marriage— oh, wait, that didn’t happen, the falling-into-the-Atlantic thing. Let’s try this again: Funny how the Anti-Gays cite Massachusetts, and every other State of Enlightenment, to prove… um, well, whatever horrible, end-of-the-world thingys that have happened since… hmmm… well, when it [...]
The Advocate: New Hampshire governor John Lynch announced Thursday that he will sign legislation to extend full marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples, making his state the fifth in New England to put such a law on the books. … Aussie blogger Cate Swannell, short, sweet, & e.e. cummings-like: suck on this proposition 8 and every californian [...]
Well, that and actually reading the bill this time: Harvey Milk bill passes Senate; Maldonado has change of heart A bill declaring a Harvey Milk Day in California - to honor the slain gay rights figure - passed the state Senate [Thursday] 24-14 and now goes to the Assembly. No surprise that all 23 Democrats present voted yes. [...]
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