Screened Out – Mustang
Sweet, poetic Mustang has been called the Turkish Virgin Suicides, and there’s good reason. They’re both female-directed movies about exactly five sisters locked up by their oppressive guardians. In...
View Article1.14.15 Editor’s Desk
It was about 3 a.m. when, curled in my perpetually awkward slumber that involves noise and talking for no real reason, I “heard the news today, oh boy.” My lifelong hero, my sun, my moon, the man who...
View ArticleEpiscopal leaders say they will not change stance on marriage
NEW YORK (AP) – Presiding Bishop Michael Curry said Jan. 15 the U.S. Episcopal Church will not roll back its acceptance of gay marriage despite sanctions imposed this week by Anglican leaders. In a...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Life: Hold, Fold, Walk Away
It was only recently, quite honestly, that I restored my membership in the Grand Old Party. I had defected in the late ‘90s in favor of Libertarianism which I, in my wiser thirties, decided was too...
View Article1.28.15 Editor’s Desk
Where were you while we were getting high? By virtue of political plate tectonics and the mahogany-and-starched-shirt drudgery of a state legislative cycle in full swing during a presidential election...
View ArticleTransgender student fights for school to use his preferred name
Millersville, Md. (AP) – Matthew Nolte’s report card is stacked with A’s, but he scratched out the name on it – which is not Matthew – until the paper wore away, leaving a rectangular hole. Matt, a...
View ArticleOut Olympian Tom Bosworth breaks one-mile race walk world record
Out Olympian Tom Bosworth won the one-mile race walk at the London Anniversary Games on Sunday with a recorded time of 5:31.08, setting a new world record. The 27-year-old athlete broke the previous...
View ArticleTampa Bay AIDS Walk and Fun Run has big turn out
AIDS Service Association of Pinellas (ASAP) and Empath Health hosted the 12th annual AIDS Walk Tampa Bay at Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg Dec. 12. More than 1,000 people participated in the walk, which...
View ArticleViewpoint: Positive living, Ho Ho Homo Home for the Holidays
If we were a bunch of Pagan Romans marking their end of year holiday celebrations, we’d wish each other a “Happy Saturnalia”, get drunk, smoke a bunch of weed and […] The post Viewpoint: Positive...
View ArticleTransgender actress and Warhol muse, Holly Woodlawn dies at 69
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Holly Woodlawn, the transgender actress made famous by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey in their 1970s films “Trash” and “Women in Revolt,” has died. Woodlawn died […] The post...
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