Tag Archives: LGBT culture

According to the NYC-based marketing firm Target 10, gay folks eat out, visit bars, and attend concerts more often than straight folks do. That seems possible, but I’m surprised at their claim that only 40% of gay folks have been to a bar or club in the last year.  More stats at the link.

A sad press release from In The Life: After 20 years in production, In The Life Media (ITLM) announces that December 2012 will mark the last broadcast of IN THE LIFE. Though legally dissolving the organization is a process that will continue into 2013, all regular ITLM operations will conclude with the final broadcast. At a time when lesbian, gay, …

Yesterday the city council of Berkeley designated September 23rd as Bisexual Pride Day, becoming the first city to make such a proclamation. Councilman Kriss Worthington introduced the resolution, telling his colleagues ahead of Tuesday night’s meeting that it was important for the city to support an occasion “conceived as a response to the prejudice and marginalization of the bisexual persons …

Clip description: Skin Deep the Series is about 6 men in Atlanta GA who experience life altering struggles pertaining to race, culture and sexuality in the gay community. This is the teaser video we want to shop to various producers and networks such as HBO, Showtime, AMC, FX, Logo, etc. in hopes that it gets picked up. Possibly not work-friendly.

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The now-familiar gay pride Oreo is one of the finalists in this year’s GLAAD Amplifier Awards. Hit the link for the other nominees.

“What makes gay people different from others is not just that we are discriminated against, mistreated, regarded as sick or perverted. That alone is not what shapes gay culture. (That indeed could end.) It’s that we live in a world in which heterosexuality is the norm. Heterosexual culture remains our first culture, and in order to survive and to flourish …

I forgot to mention Sylvester’s 65th birthday, what with all the DNC hullabaloo. Here’s some disco-gay education for the tender ones.

JMG reader Mike tips us to a gorgeously simple new video for the 2009 track by gay Irish pop artist Gregory Gray, who also records as Mary Cigarettes. Gray writes about the new video: “There’s not really a lot I need to say about this…it just speaks for itself. My friend Robert Shaw (or *Renee* as I call him) is …

The New York Times has posted a lengthy slideshow from photographer Alan Charlesworth’s look at bear culture. Peter Moskowitz writes: Mainstream culture tends to depict gay men as either comically effeminate, or supersculpted and image conscious. Mr. Charlesworth had a hard time relating, or being attracted to, those kinds of images. He said that while he questioned his sexuality in …

Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, openly bisexual Jessie J, and a full stadium singalong with Freddie Mercury on center-stage screens. I don’t think we could have asked for much more.

Possibly not work-friendly!

The New York Times takes note of the increasing pressure for gay newlyweds to consider starting a family. For some couples, it is another welcome sign of their increasing inclusion in the American mainstream. But for others, who hear the persistent questions at the office, dinner parties and family get-togethers, the matter can be far more complicated. Many gay men …

It boggles the mind, but a small gay pride event was held in Uganda this weekend. Alexis Okeowo reports at New Yorker: “Can you imagine that the worst place in the world to be gay is having Gay Pride?” Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera asked a crowd of cheering gay men, lesbians, transgendered men and women, and queers somewhere in between. It …