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''Spring Awakening'' at the Kennedy Center Spring can really hang you up the most.
It was in the spring of 1989 that Sen. Jesse Helms denounced the work of Andres Serrano and transformed "Piss Christ," an artwork unknown to the general public, into the cultural shot heard round the world.
In the spring of 1913 the Ballets Russes premiered Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky's new ballet work Le Sacré du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). The work, which featured experimental music and cutting-edge movement, caused a near riot in the audience. ...more
''Spring Awakening'' at the Kennedy Center Spring can really hang you up the most.
It was in the spring of 1989 that Sen. Jesse Helms denounced the work of Andres Serrano and transformed "Piss Christ," an artwork unknown to the general public, into the cultural shot heard round the world.
In the spring of 1913 the Ballets Russes premiered Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky's new ballet work Le Sacré du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). The work, which featured experimental music and cutting-edge movement, caused a near riot in the audience. ...more
Gauge: The news of Desi Deschaine's death spread like wildfire Tuesday morning in both the real and virtual worlds. By noon, July 14, there were more than a hundred posts to his Facebook page, rapidly becoming an online memorial. The apparent drowning of Deschaine, a 29-year-old gay Washingtonian who served as director of communications for Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), has stunned the District's gay community and beyond.
"We're just in shock, totally in grief," said Jeff Coudriet Tuesday morning, who worked with Deschaine as committee clerk of the City Council Committee on Finance & Revenue, which Evans chairs. "He was always involved, incredibly good-natured. I can't think of anybody who doesn't like Desi. He really loved the notion of public service."
Desi Deschaine, right, with Christopher Dyer, at a May 15, 2009, Whitman-Walker Clinic fundraiser
(Photo by Ward Morrison/file photo) Deschaine spent Sunday, July 12, boating with friends in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, but went missing after walking off the boat Sunday evening, friends say. Baltimore Police confirmed Tuesday that a missing-person report had been filed, but would not confirm that a body found in Baltimore Harbor was Deschaine's. Community activist Phil Attey, who knew Deschaine, however, said Tuesday that he'd spoken with Deschaine's family who confirmed the body was Deschaine's. ...more
"We're just in shock, totally in grief," said Jeff Coudriet Tuesday morning, who worked with Deschaine as committee clerk of the City Council Committee on Finance & Revenue, which Evans chairs. "He was always involved, incredibly good-natured. I can't think of anybody who doesn't like Desi. He really loved the notion of public service."
Desi Deschaine, right, with Christopher Dyer, at a May 15, 2009, Whitman-Walker Clinic fundraiser
(Photo by Ward Morrison/file photo) Deschaine spent Sunday, July 12, boating with friends in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, but went missing after walking off the boat Sunday evening, friends say. Baltimore Police confirmed Tuesday that a missing-person report had been filed, but would not confirm that a body found in Baltimore Harbor was Deschaine's. Community activist Phil Attey, who knew Deschaine, however, said Tuesday that he'd spoken with Deschaine's family who confirmed the body was Deschaine's. ...more
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Rob McGuire
(Photo by Yusef Najafi) Organizers of the second annual "Bring Your Own Everything Family Picnic" were pleased with the comfortably sunny weather on Saturday, July 11. That day the NOVA Gay & Lesbian Professionals joined forces with Burgundy Crescent Volunteers, the DC Ice Breakers and the DC Lesbian Singles at Great Falls National Park in McLean, Va., for a picnic.
“We are here, and if you did not know that we were queer, I don’t think you would find any difference between our landscape and many of the other groups that are out here right now,” said Marguerite Bardone of NOVA GLP.
“We did a similar joint event at Nellie’s Sports Bar, and I was almost afraid we were going to break the deck,” she added with a laugh. ...more
Rob McGuire
(Photo by Yusef Najafi) Organizers of the second annual "Bring Your Own Everything Family Picnic" were pleased with the comfortably sunny weather on Saturday, July 11. That day the NOVA Gay & Lesbian Professionals joined forces with Burgundy Crescent Volunteers, the DC Ice Breakers and the DC Lesbian Singles at Great Falls National Park in McLean, Va., for a picnic.
“We are here, and if you did not know that we were queer, I don’t think you would find any difference between our landscape and many of the other groups that are out here right now,” said Marguerite Bardone of NOVA GLP.
“We did a similar joint event at Nellie’s Sports Bar, and I was almost afraid we were going to break the deck,” she added with a laugh. ...more
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington BladeAnti-gay and Catholic groups made the largest donations in recent months to overturn Maine's new same-sex marriage law, helping opponents of such unions outraise supporters more than 2-1.
Campaign finance reports made available Wednesday show that while people trying to defend the law raised $148,930.32, opponents of same-sex marriage raised $344,619.50. The reports detail the period between April 1 and July 5.
In May, Maine became the fifth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. But the possibility of a "people's veto" threatens the new law. If opponents of same-sex marriage gather enough petition signatures for a " ...
STOCKHOLM (AP)Lithuania's new president on Thursday criticized a censorship bill passed by lawmakers in the Baltic country that aims to keep information about homosexuality away from children.
Dalia Grybauskaite, who was inaugurated as president on Sunday, said the m easure was poorly worded and vowed to propose amendments later this year.
"I'm very much upset that such kind of laws in Lithuania are possible," she told reporters during a joint news conference in Stockholm with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
The measure bans publicly disseminating material deemed harmful to the mental health and "intellectua ...
WASHINGTON (AP)The U.S. Air Force Academy has a gay member on its Board of Visitors. Colorado Democratic Rep. Jared Polis was named to the board Wednesday.
Polis became the first openly gay man elected to Congress as a non-incumbent last year.
House leaders also reappointed Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn, whose district includes the academy in Colorado Springs.
The e Board of Visitors gives semiannual reports on the military academy to Congress and the Pentagon.
Polis opposes the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that bans gays from serving openly in the military. But a Polis aide says Pol ...
Out and Equal Workplace Advocates, an LGBT-focused business advisory group based in San Francisco, has scored a major get for its annual summit this fall: John Berry, the openly gay director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today picked Ronald E. Albers for a judgeship on the San Francisco County Superior Court.
Theresa Sparks, the transgender woman who has served two terms as president of the city’s police commission, has ruled out running for a third term. When she first won the coveted seat by one vote back in 2007, Sparks became the first transgender person to head a city oversight panel. But her ascension led to [...]
The Senate voted to attach attach the Hate Crimes measure to the Department of Defense authorization bill, but President Barack Obama has pledged to veto the legislation if it includes wasteful spending. 
Connie Waters is on a mission. She intends to get the people of Memphis to come together and have an open conversation about marriage equality.
Event will benefit the Comprehensive Care Center. The Music City AIDS Gala, benefiting the Comprehensive Care Center and the life-saving care it provides to thousands of Middle Tennesseans with HIV and AIDS, will be held on Friday, August 7, at the Vanderbilt...
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The Senate agreed to expand federal hate crimes protections Thursday
President Obama included gay rights in his Thursday address to the NAACP
Lithuania's incoming president on Thursday criticized a bill approved by lawmakers that bans gay speech in schools
Backstory: Mormons Bust Queers for Kiss on Cheek, July 12, 2009
There was no Christian marriage sacrament until the sixteenth century. A Catholic scholar writes that “nothing is more remarkable than the tardiness with which liturgical forms for the marriage ceremony were evolved.†In fact they were not so much evolved as copied from the common law long established under paganism, and had more to do [...]
Honestly (and all perfunctory “wouldn’t wish it on anybody” statements aside), I don’t know if the presumably imminent departure of Kim Jong-Il (the five-year survival rate of people with pancreatic cancer is a mere 4%) and the rise of his son, Kim Jong Un (whom Kim Jong-Il named as his successor last month — which [...]
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