Gay Icons and History: May 2008
Lambda Book Awards: Real people writing about real things
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | May 30, 2008 6:30 PM |The Lambda Book Awards don't have a red carpet yet, and it's probably just as well. TV viewers wouldn't get to see all those plastic Beautiful People so familiar at the Oscars, Golden Globes, etc. They'd have to look at...Read More
10 Gay Documentaries Everyone Should See
Filed by Michael Crawford | May 28, 2008 4:00 PM |As an antidote to the straight-washed version of history foisted on us by traditional media and educational institutions, I present to you 10 Gay Documentaries Everyone Should See. These ten films only begin to scratch the surface of the rich...Read More
Review- In the Life's "Leading the Way"
Filed by Waymon Hudson | May 24, 2008 8:30 AM |IN THE LIFE, the three-time Emmy Award nominated program documenting the lives and experiences of LGBT people nationally and abroad, presents its new June episode- "Leading the Way"- just in time for Pride Month. I was again lucky enough to...Read More
Pioneering Gay Rights Activist Ruth Simpson Dies at 82
Filed by Bil Browning | May 12, 2008 5:45 PM |Ruth Simpson, author and gay rights activist since the 1960's, died May 8 in Woodstock, New York. After several years of, as she said, "sampling an assortment of illnesses on the palette of old age," she finally succumbed to her...Read More
Marriage Equality Movement Mother Dies
Filed by Rev Irene Monroe | May 06, 2008 5:30 PM |As the nation celebrates Mother's Day this Sunday, let us as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans not forgot our mother of the marriage equality movement who died this week: Mildred Jeter Loving. There is no greater challenge before...Read More
