Tag Archives: LGBT History

The first legal same-sex marriages take place this morning in our nation’s capital. HRC’s live video stream below is slated to begin broadcasting at 9:45am EST. You can send messages of congratulations to the couples at the video link. UPDATE: The three ceremonies are concluded. And I’m out of tissues.

HRC Back Story reports that Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend, a couple for 13 years, were first in line to get their marriage license in Washington, DC this morning. Marriages commence in three business days. DC Councilman David Catania, the sponsor of the bill, will be on hand all day to give out cupcakes to the couples in line. Congratulations …

In the last six months, I’ve attended two Saint reunion parties and two Trocadero Transfer reunions, the latest of which was last night’s delightful event at Dance 208, helmed by original Troc DJ Bobby Viteritti. As I wax nostalgic for long-gone gay nightlife far too often on this here website thingy, this time I’ll just provide some clips heard last …

The Windy City Times reports that 42 year-old Laura Ricketts has become the first openly gay co-owner of an American major league sports franchise. When Laura Ricketts and the rest of her family closed on the deal to purchase the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise last fall, the furthest thing from her mind was the impact this would have on the …

You know how the Moonies like to do those mass weddings of thousands of couples? A group in Washington DC is going to attempt the same thing with gay couples as they shoot for an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. The largest gay wedding in history is scheduled for Saturday, March 20th in Washington, DC. Up to …

This is an especially interesting episode from the TOQ, who says this on the clip’s description: Basil Dearden’s ground breaking VICTIM starring Dirk Bogarde, ripped the lid off the public and personal persecution of homosexuals in Great Britain. The most daring film ever seen on the subject, VICTIM helped to change the laws dealing with homosexuality, laws which had been …

The former Washington Blade staffers behind its successor, DC Agenda, have purchased the assets of the demised title. Most importantly, the purchase includes the paper’s irreplaceable archive of the last 40 years of LGBT history and journalism. Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia, Inc., doing business as DCAgenda, proudly announced today that it acquired the assets of the Washington Blade, the nation’s …

The day of legal same-sex marriage in the nation’s capital is nearly upon us and celebrations are being planned. Via DC Agenda: Aisha Mills and her domestic partner, Danielle Moodie, plan to mark March 3, the day the District’s same-sex marriage law is scheduled to take effect, by going to the courthouse to apply for a marriage license. Due to …

This Saturday original Trocadero Transfer DJ Bobby Viteritti will spin a reunion party at Dance 208, the NYC LGBT Center’s dance party series. Dance:208 debuts another great new night: a tribute to San Francisco’s legendary gay nightclub from the day Trocadero Transfer with one of its original djs Bobby Viteritti. Trocadero was as famous in its day as The Saint. …

For the first time ever in NYC, this weekend’s Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown including an LGBT contingent.

Matt Damon has signed to play Liberace’s lover in the coming biopic starring Michael Douglas. It is quite a change for the Irish American macho star used to playing souped-up testosterone roles such as the cop in ‘The Departed’ and the Bourne Identity flicks. Douglas who will play the flamboyant Liberace is looking forward to having Damon as his gay …

Despite the preceding three hours of high-tech spectacle, it was openly lesbian and native Canadian kd lang’s simple, yet soaring take on Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah that stole the show during the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. Watch video here. Overnight the top three searches on Google were for various punctuations of lang’s name, as accolades poured out on the …

Head over to the Advocate for Dave White’s take on this 1967 CBS report titled The Homosexuals, which includes an interview with a founding member of the Mattachine Society, America’s first gay rights group. Dave White: This weekend, for my second visit to The Homosexuals, I took notes. And when I was done my pad of paper was a laundry …

NY Sen. Chuck Schumer has nominated former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Daniel Alter to the federal bench, the first openly gay man to be tapped for a federal judgeship. Schumer laid out several reasons Alter would make an excellent fit for the job. Schumer said that Alter’s stellar legal background, close ties to New …

Flags, fans, tambourines, claves, cowbells, and baby powder. Sunday’s third installment of the Saint reunion party, Trippin’ On The Moon, was an end-to-end delight. I walked in to Linda Clifford’s sultry 1978 classic Runaway Love and left about seven hours later shortly after the Love Unlimited Orchestra’s My Sweet Summer Suite. Perfection. The clip below has some seriously borked audio …

Courtesy of the promoters, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to Trippin’ On The Moon III, the third installment of the reunion of the members and performers of NYC’s legendary Saint disco. The party takes place this Sunday, President’s Day eve, at Santos Party House in Manhattan’s Tribeca. Original Saint DJs Michael Fierman and Robbie Leslie will perform, …

Vanity Fair has published a lengthy series of quotes from people who were around during the early years of disco, including Judy Weinstein, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Ian Schrager, Gloria Gaynor, Nile Rodgers, and Fran Lebowitz. The piece by Lisa Robinson opens: It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New …

During a private ceremony with her partner holding the family Bible, Annise Parker was sworn in on Saturday as the mayor of Houston. Parker will be sworn in again today in a public ceremony at City Hall. Houston is now the largest U.S. city with an openly gay mayor. New York, of course, has had at least one closeted gay …

Fifteen gay couples celebrated the New Year by wedding on the steps of the New Hampshire statehouse last night, as same-sex marriages became legal at 12:01am. After 19 years together Linda Murphy and Donna Swartwout tied the knot at 12:01 a.m. Friday, when New Hampshire’s law legalizing same-sex marriage took effect. They were among several couples early Friday who married …

Same-sex marriage rights go into effect at midnight tonight in New Hampshire. While everybody already with a civil union in New Hampshire will automatically convert to a legal marriage by the end of 2010 (if they do nothing), some folks are getting hitched tonight to speed the process along.