Cynthia Erivo – What Makes a Voice Legendary?
by joel martens Best known to U.S. audiences for her performance as Celie in the 2015 Broadway musical revival of The Color Purple, Cynthia Erivo took New York by storm, winning the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical as well as the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Her journey […]
SHUT UP! IT’S GREYSON CHANCE
PORTRAITS OF A YOUNG MAN ~ by joel martens ~ The world is as different as it can be, but when you get down to it, what makes us all human and connected, really has not. We are emotional beings who love, feel pain, have successes and suffer losses, eventualities that have forever driven writers […]
Murray Bartlett & Tales of The City: Michael Tolliver Lives Again!
~ by joel martens ~ Murray Bartlett went to acting school in Australia and successfully worked there for a number of years, though he felt restless. The industry there is small, so there’s not many opportunities and a lot of actors who want to work. In his 20’s Bartlett, like many of us, was asking […]
Full Release! 2019 Summer Movie Preview
by tim parks – Last year provided moviegoers with some quality LGBTQ representation with films like The Favourite, Boy Erased, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Call Me By Your Name and Love, Simon. There was Bohemian Rhapsody of course, with its knock out performance by Rami Malek, which nabbed him a Best Actor Oscar. Naturally, […]
Brown & Out Fest V: Celebrating The Latinx Experience
by joel martens – What do the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, the 50th Anniversary of the passing of gay icon Judy Garland, and National LGBTQ Pride Month have in common you might ask? Well, for CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, each of these events represent a part of […]
LOS ANGELES PRIDE 2019
#JUSTUNITE & COME TOGETHER ~ by joel martens ~ There’s a lot of talk about the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots this year, what a unifying moment it was when queer people fought back, and what it means to the LGBTQ community. New York is often made the epicenter of the gay rights movement […]
Cameron Hawthorn: Boy Discovered
~ by joel martens ~ The world can sometimes seem to change in a flash and then conversely, at an impossibly slow pace. One thing is for sure, our great social experiment is a never-ending process of transformation, reaction to the alteration… and then even more change. As LGBTQ people, we have seen our share […]
A Million Reasons To Be Proud: Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride 2019
by tim parks The 36th Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride theme of “A Million Moments of Pride” is in line with celebrating those milestones, both as individuals and a community as a whole, that have propelled us forward in our quest for true equality. The other part of the focus for this year’s Pride […]
KARINA SAMALA: LONG BEACH PRIDE’S
COMMUNITY GRAND MARSHAL Standing On The Shoulders Of Others by tim parks The Rage Monthly spoke with trans activist and Judith Doyle Community Grand Marshal, Karina Samala, about the shoulders she stands on, given the fact that transgender pioneer Marsha P. Johnson was one of the key figures at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots. […]
50 Years of Queer: The L.A. LGBT Center’s Anita May Rosenstein Campus – Mapping The Future with Lorri L. Jean
by joel martens – The journey towards equality has been a long one for the LGBTQ community some might say. A seemingly endless fight to at times simply be seen, then recognized and acknowledged and finally to be guaranteed a semblance of equal rights. It was at times, a literal fight for our lives during […]