THE SHAPE OF WATER: Reinventing A Childhood Classic – Del Toro Style
by chris carpenter – As a boy, acclaimed writer-director Guillermo del Toro thought the title monster of his favorite movie, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, and the human woman with whom it was smitten should have swum off into the sunset together. Del Toro has now taken a step toward correcting this perceived slight […]
HRC Releases 2018 Buyer’s Guide Just In Time for Holiday Shopping Season
from edge media network – As the holiday shopping season kicks off, equality-minded shoppers can stand with companies who stand with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community by using the new Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s popular consumer guide to hundreds of American companies to choose brands and retail outlets committed to […]
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
A VOYAGE TROUGHT DISCOVERY AND DESIRE ~ by joel martens ~ Who among us doesn’t remember those disconcerting first twinges of sexual attraction? How about the rush of discovery when the attraction was reciprocated? Then, the breathless, heady intensity that followed during the pursuit of, or the chase by, the object of that attraction…those […]
KELLY CLARKSON
MEANING OF LIFE The Girl Next Door All Grown Up ~ by joel martens ~ She hasn’t stopped singing, writing and perfecting her sound over the course of that 15 years. Even if you based success solely on her latest musical effort, Meaning of Life, it would still be resoundingly true. She is in her […]
RANDY RAINBOW: Mastering Musical Mockery
by tim parks – With a song in his heart and a wicked sense of humor up his sleeve, Randy Rainbow has made quite a name for himself in the world of parody…And yes, that is his real surname. The New York-based comedian, writer and YouTube sensation has been called “The best thing about the […]
CAMP NO COUNSELORS
GAYS AND LESBIANS AND QUEERS, OH MY! It’s Not Just Child’s Play ~by joel martens ~ How many who are reading this, didn’t have a great camping experience when they were a kid? Being gay for many of was already like being lost in a proverbial forest of the straight and narrow, so it stands […]
BEATS PER MINUTE (BPM)
FRANCE’S AIDS BIOPIC This Oscar Contender is Already a Winner ~ by chris carpenter ~ A number of powerful films depicting the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis are rightly considered classics. Parting Glances, And The Band Played On, Longtime Companion and Philadelphia helped to open the world’s eyes and hearts before there were any […]
A TASTEFUL AFFAIR: An Event to Remember
by tony reverditto – The AIDS Food Store is Southern California’s longest serving HIV/AIDS food provider. Started in 1985 through Christ Chapel Long Beach, when a group came together to address the issue of hunger in a community where many social service agencies were unable or unwilling to help. Consequently, the AIDS Food Store Long […]
Our Future: Why Do We Need Gay Tribes Anyways?
from our media partner: edge media network – by Kyle Mangione-Smith Anyone who’s gay and living in the age of the Internet has probably at some point or another considered: what gay-subgenre do I fit into? It’s become so ubiquitously ingrained across the whole span of gay culture that it’s nearly impossible to avoid. When signing […]
THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS
THE STORY BEHIND CHARLES DICKENS AND THE WORLD’S MOST BELOVED TALE ~ by joel martens ~ Utter the phrase “Bah Humbug!” and there isn’t a person on the planet or at least very few, who won’t be transported to the dark, inhospitable world that surrounds the old crank, Ebenezer Scrooge. There are few books that […]