With a nice sing-a-long subtitles, New York cabaret singer Shelly Goldstein sings a song about Marriage Equality.
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Bea Arthur: Hero
The Ali Forney Center in New York City, received a gift of $300,000 today, from the Estate of
legendary actress Bea Arthur.
The Ali Forney Center, the nation's largest organization dedicated to homeless
LGBT youth, announced at Bea Arthur's Memorial Service on September 14th that
they planned to purchase a building to house 12 youths and name it her honor.
"We work with hundreds of young people who are rejected by their families
because of who they are. We are overwhelmed with gratitude that Bea saw that
LGBT youth deserve as much love and support as any other young person, and that
she placed so much value in the work we do to protect them, and to help them
rebuild their lives." says Executive Director Carl Siciliano.The Ali Forney Center offers emergency shelter and transitional housing in seven residential sites in NYC
and operates two drop-in centers offering food, clothing, medical and mental health treatment, HIV testing,
treatment and prevention services, and vocational and educational assistance. It provides
services to over 1000 young people each year.
RISE UP & SHOUT… RISES AGAIN!
Well…they're doing it again. If you're anywhere near Los Angeles, Rise Up & Shout! is a wonderful, feel-good evening. This is sponsored by The Gay Men's Medicine Circle in Los Angeles.
Tickets are $25 and vailable at BGTix.com
GO! RISE! SHOUT!
West Hollywood Book Fair
Author and poet, Trebor Healey, moderated a panel on inter-generaltional love between gay icons, White Crane authors and contributors, Malcolm Boyd and Mark Thompson at this year's WeHo BookFair. For more pictures look here
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Gavin Creel…from Broadway's HAIR…sings about Going to D.C. for the GLBT March
WE’RE #37! USA! USA! USA! Woo Hoo!
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman, the irrepressible agnostic author who scandalized Christians for portraying the church as evil in his His Dark Materials series and for bragging that his books are about "killing God," is, thankfully, at it again.
He tells the Guardian this week that the title of his next release is The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ and it will explore "the dual nature of Jesus." Scoundrel Christ will "provide a new account of the life of Jesus, challenging the gospels" by charging that the apostle Paul's large influence on the New Testament was mostly a bad thing: "Paul was a literary and imaginative genius of the first order who has probably had more influence on the history of the world than any other human being, Jesus certainly included," says Pullman. "I believe this is a pity."
And best of all, he intends to right this grievous error by releasing his promising-sounding book next Easter. Pullman, who last year pronounced himself delighted that the His Dark Materials trilogy was one of the most "challenged" series in America's libraries, boasts that thee most requests for removal from the shelves are because of its "religious viewpoint".
We imagine you'll be hearing more about this.
Sinead’s Hand
With thanks to Franklin Abbott, a perfectly concise picture of marriage equality, from Ireland.
Top Chef
Like any self-respecting Gay Foodie, I’m a long time fan of Top Chef…and I must admit to a crush on Tom Colicchio (both a culinary crush and a flat he’s-hot-crush). Now I have another reason. An upcoming episode of the show has one of the Lesbian chefs balking at a “wedding challenge”. Kudos to her. But to add complement to spine, Colicchio had this to say in a blog post of his own:
I don’t think I’ve seen it expressed quite so well, anywhere, by anyone else. Bravo, indeed.