The Boston Gay Men’s Chos (BGMC) announced yterday that PRIDE (a 30-mute showse of spirg and joyful songs that ...
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- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
- IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ONCE SHUNNED HIM, A BOSTON GAY RIGHTS PNEER FALLY GETS HIS MOMENT
- THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE
- THE BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS WILL PERFORM DISNEY’S ‘PRIDE CONCERT’
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
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The four-part te crime seri, now streamg, foc on four victims, gay men the 1990s, who were murred, dismembered, their remas found garbage bags along a New Jersey highway. Adapted om an Edgar-wng 2021 book also lled “Last Call” by director Anthony Caronna and producer Howard Gertler, what ultimately emerg is an unsttg portra of the vlence done not jt to a gay quartet but to gays, lbians, trans people general.
That mak the climatic urt trial a tense tt se of basic gay civil rights.
“What we wanted to do was set the table so people unrstood that 2005, ” Caronna said, “gay marriage wasn’t a thg. For gays, 2005 was still a time where somebody uld get off for somethg heo.
IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ONCE SHUNNED HIM, A BOSTON GAY RIGHTS PNEER FALLY GETS HIS MOMENT
There was still a lot of homema homophobia wh the jtice system. “Last Call” begs 1970s Florida where former bety queen Ana Bryant ws natnal attentn and enthiastic support by attackg homosexuals as unf parents.
“Last Call” ends wh current Florida ernor Ron DeSantis echog Bryant wh attacks on trans children, gays and lbians. “One thg we disvered was the homophobia we talk about the ‘90s, Ana Bryant really was the spark for that. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.
Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.
THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — (AP) — Malaysia's ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry's anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. ”Healey ed profany his speech cricizg the ernment's stance agast homosexualy, before kissg bass player Ross MacDonald. Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and agency charge of approvg performanc by foreign artists said was disappoted wh the band's nduct, llg “an sult and disrpectg the laws of the untry.
” It said the group will be blacklisted om performg wasn't the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights.
In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports.
THE BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS WILL PERFORM DISNEY’S ‘PRIDE CONCERT’
There, a handful of people gathered for the gural Natnal Park Service tour honorg a ltle-known yet pneerg gay rights activist.
The tour explor the life of the late Prtt Townsend, a queer advote whose long life spanned the 19th century and the first Pri Para New York Cy 1970, and who lived an exuberantly out gay life that flew the face of the social and legal boundari of his time. He me out as gay to his parents his teens before followg a fay tradn of attendg Harvard. “But for some reason, the gay, artsy history had never really e to the foreont before.
The next tour stop is at 75 Phillips St., where Townsend rented out affordable rooms a property he owned, often to young, gay men. Some sourc dite that those Deprsn years, Townsend had already begun a life of gay activism by visg the State Hoe up the hill to ask legislators to crimalize homosexual acts.