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What It Looks Like From Here: Yves Saint Laurent
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Local

Gay couple win harassment suit against Secaucus, NJ
Gay theater takes the stage (Philadelphia)
Making the police safe for gay officers (Philadelphia)
Philly police commissioner may set up unit in gay community
Pittsburgh minister still charged with banned gay wedding
Streets fill with rainbow-colored pride (Philadelphia)

National

Defendant In Gay Man's Death Gets 2.5 Year Sentence (SC)
Gay vets turned away by federal appeals court
Judge raises constitutional issue in R.I. gay divorce case
Maine Primaries Yield Good News for GLBT Voters
Mass. gov's daughter says she's gay; Dad says he's proud
Nashville Schools To Protect LGBT Students
Parents Of Gay Children Protest 'Ex-Gay' Conference
Transgender rights laws spread, not always calmly
Vegas Prepares to Welcome an Abundance of Black Lesbians for National Conference
Virginia's top court rules in favor of Vermont woman in lesbian custody dispute

International

Alderman dismisses apology to gay community (AU)
Brazilian Prez Supports Gay Equality
Gambian president urged to halt anti-gay crackdown
I am defending the word of God says "gay cure" MP (UK)
Lesbian parents get new rights in New South Wales (UK)
Lesbos islanders go to court in bid to reclaim the word lesbian
Man murdered by his gay lover (AU)
Pastor appealing order to apologize for anti-gay letter (Canada)
Ugandan Government Cracks Down on LGBT Rights
UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith tops Most Desired Lesbian Date list

Health

A prescription to cure homophobic doctors
Gay Unions Shed Light on Gender in Marriage
Study Examines Factors In LGBT Teen Suicides
Unsafe sex

Marriage Equality

Anglicans grapple with same-sex marriage issues (Canada)
Bishop Murphy: Paterson 'just wrong' on gay marriage (NY)
Canadian Catholic Priest Opposes Same-Sex Marriage, Faces Possible Prosecution
Gay-marriage ruling could boost California's ailing economy
Lawsuits in defense of gay marriage can backfire, activist groups warn (CA)
N.Y. gay couples plan to dash to altar by way of Calif.
No charges for gay couple seeking marriage license (NY)
Norway legalises gay marriage
Poll: Support for Gay Rights (NY)
States at odds over gay marriage recognition

Opinion

Evaluate benefits of same-sex marriage
Gay marriage is sinful
Gay marriage won't send world to its end
Gay Pride: Just an excuse for a party nowadays?
Marriage Equality: A Singular Mission
Paterson proving his mettle on gay marriage issue
Same-Sex 'Marriage' and the Persecution of Civil Society (ANTI-QUEER)
Say NO to gay marriage, Illinois
Smalltown pride: Pine City LGBT picnic changes hearts and minds
The people should decide about gay marriage, not government

Politics

Gay Rights Group Denounces McCain; Endorses Obama
Gays Could Split Over McCain
Gilmore bests anti-gay Marshall for GOP Senate nod in Va. 
Obama campaign's 'gay lifestyle' gaffe
Obama Ramps Up Gay Efforts With New Initiative
Obama renews commitment to gay issues
Political parties differ on 'values' terminology 
Religious Right Opposes Gay-Loving Obama
US gay rights group endorses Obama and attacks McCain

Pride

Brief altercations at Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv
Families Celebrate Latino Gay Pride (CA)
Gay Pride held in Athens, Warsaw and Rome
Grand Rapids kicks off pride with an eye-opening film
New England Transgender Pride puts the T first
Pride Week ends with flourish (ND)
Tens of thousands turn out for Gay Pride in European cities
Thousands attend 10th annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv
Thousands of gay rights activists march in parades in Rome and Milan
Utah Pride marks years of struggle

Actors / Arts / Books / Film/ Sports

'Brokeback' - opera-to-be
'Criminal Minds' Actress Stars in Gay-Themed Film
Cross-Dressing Sleuth Triumphs in Novels by Former Citi Manager 
Gay Marriage For Latifah?
Harsh to play a gay designer
Lesbian Vampire Killers movie angers campaigners
Madonna Shocked by Gay Brother Christopher Ciccone's Tell-All
Rosie O'Donnell's Marriage Plans On Hold
Shia LaBeouf apologises for gay slur video
Shia LaBeouf 'Embarrassed' by Videotaped Anti-Gay Slur
This Gay Week in Sports: Rafael Nadal, Vanessa Bryant
Tila claims she's responsible for gay marriage
 
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PRIDE Epilogue

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Well, Philadelphia Pride Celebration have come and gone. Now all we're left with is our collective memories. Frankly, my personal ones aren't all that positive. In fact, I'm still nursing a sore shoulder after being roughed up by members of the Philadelphia Police Department. It appears that they have grown tired of me.

Allow me to explain.

The adventures of my Pride Day began when I approached the parade reviewing stand and noticed that there was an anti-queer protester standing on the curb with his banners, flying high, and denouncing homosexuals. 

I found this odd because the anti-queer protester was the same person who was arrested last year for not following the directions of a verbal permit while protesting against abortion rights activists at the Liberty Bell Center. (This same protester is currently a defendant in Federal Court on charges stemming from not following the instructions of the verbal permit that came with an instruction that the protester was to move to the park's free speech zone on the corner of 5th and Market Streets.) 

Curiously, the verbal permit given to this same protester and his followers had no such restrictions during this year's pride parade. 

I wonder. Why the double standard when it comes to those who wish to protest against queers?

Now any defense lawyer can easily point out the clear inconsistencies between these types of verbal permits; one that instructs protesters to be restricted to the free speech zone, the other seems to allow protesters to protest wherever they like.  (It seems the Federal Prosecutor might just have lost his case.)

Well, getting back to Philadelphia Pride Celebration, I voiced my protest, right then and there, to the Park Ranger Supervisor, pointing out to him what appear to be the obvious inconsistencies in the issuance of verbal permits.

Minutes later, I then walked over to Captain William Fisher of the Philadelphia Police Department's Civil Affairs Unit.  I wanted to ask him about the alleged meeting that he earlier claimed to have had with Malcolm Lazin of Equality Forum where Lazin allegedly gave permission to let anti-queer protesters march through SundayOUT!.


I guess the heat was really bothering Fisher because he was not happy with my questions and just went off on Lazin.  He claimed that he figured that Lazin would not tell the truth about the meeting. I immediately began asking for meeting dates and if there was any public record of this alleged meeting between he and Lazin. Clearly, Fisher was not happy with this line of questioning. I moved on.

The next encounter of the day was when I arrived at the festival grounds to find that the Philadelphia Police Department was placing the anti-queer protester in the middle of the ticket line right outside of the entrance to Penn's Landing. This decision appears to have been the "collective wisdom" of the Police Civil Affairs Unit, the onsite Police Commanders, and Police Department Lawyers.

The protester was given maximum exposure to "proclaim" his hate speech which includes advocating the death of queers by capital punishment.


I let it be known that I strongly opposed this decision and that it was an affront to Philadelphia's queer community. The response of the Philadelphia Police Department was borderline abusive as they physically carried me away from the protester and threw me against a fence where I continued my protest until the police moved me again, this time without violence, to a location on the same side of the street as the anti-queer protestor.

While I am repulsed by the hate speech that this anti-queer protester spews from his honey-laced lips, I will not deny his right to say it.

But, frankly, after four years my encounters with protesters that they have been granted unbridled access to our queer community events. In fact, I am convinced more than ever that there is a clear and irrefutably double standard when it comes to the queer community's freedom and right to peaceable assembly.


Philadelphia: Get your history straight and your night life gay . . . just be prepared to be treated under a double standard when you attend our community festivals!

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The world lost the great gay designer on the first day of Pride Month.  Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) died at the age of 71 in Paris on June 1.  One wonders if the true "genius" of fashion even planned his own death day well, he seems to have designed practically everything else.


Laurent, the Frenchman who came out at the age of 55 in an interview in Le Figaro talking about his long affair with his lover and business partner Pierre Berge, is credited with making a huge impact upon the way both men and women dress and even shop for clothing, from his gender-bending pants suit for women and the classic men's tuxedo for women to his invention of designer label ready-to-wear acceptable worldwide.


Some even attribute the concept of "unisex fashion" to Laurent, the Algerian teenager who won a fashion contest and ended up in Paris working for Christian Dior who may or may not have been lovers, the verdict is still out on the truth.


And where did Laurent get his inspiration for his designs?


"He incorporated everything from the streets to the gay drag clubs into his designs," wrote Victoria Brownworth in her obituary (a lovely homage) in Philadelphia Gay News, June 6-12, 2008.


The list of firsts, his unique fashion innovation, created by Laurent is long and impressive. Besides the woman's pants suit, the woman's tuxedo and ready-to-wear, he created the see-through blouse, the safari jacket, the A-line skirt, the tie-neck blouse and the trim little knee-length skirt. Not to mention, the ball gowns!


It seems that I've always had Laurent in my own life. Years ago while teaching in New Hampshire and enjoying every so often escapes to Boston (my cultural epicenter for almost 20 years of my life) on one shopping spree I purchased three shirts, around $50 each, at a chic men's clothing boutique, all with the Laurent label.


While they were frightfully expensive in 1966, they became my favorite dress shirts for decades. In fact, I still have a two of them. I just could never throw them away.


My first designer bed sheets were YSL monogrammed geometric patterns in tans, chocolate browns and blues.  Over the years I couldn't avoid Laurent's designs whether it was a handful of ties, gloves, scarves, trousers, shirts, socks, sports wear, and a memorable black trench coat that I bought during an early visit to London (that's when the US dollar was worth a lot and Americans could actually spend money on clothes) that I wore until the garment simply fell apart--that was only after about 18 years!


For the past 15 years or more after an extensive and somewhat quasi-scientific smell testing, I've been wearing the same fragrance day in and day out, of course, I'm talking about the original "Kouros" by Laurent. I'm always getting compliments from total strangers asking me what fragrance I'm wearing. When I use anything else, there's literally no response.


Ultimately, I remember wearing Laurent's designs and ALWAYS feeling stylish and chic, never
consciously fashionable and trendy. Now that I think of it Laurent probably is the one who taught me to never let the clothes wear me and instead for me to wear the clothes.


Bravo, Laurent, for making me and many others, fashionistas, in the best of all possible ways!

 

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"Johnny Depp, certainly, without question. There's just something about his individuality, his humility, and his sense of style. He's also immensely talented and intelligent, and that's all very sexy."

 

actor Patrick Dempsey on being asked which male celebrity do you find sexy (The Advocate, June 17, 2008)


"[Besides being on American Idol,] I went to the BET awards when Michael Jackson presented James Brown an award and everyone in the audience was like a 6-year-old kid."

 

former American Idol singer/songwriter Kimberly Locke who will be performing at Pittsburgh Pride on June 22, 2008 (Pride Pittsburgh, 2008)


"My parents wouldn't allow me to have a doll, so my bear became like a transvestite."

 

queer designer Jean Paul Gaultier (OUT, June/July 2008)

 

I'm Glad I Never Said That:

 

"cut off the head"

 

a threat by Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh to of any homosexual found in The Gambia

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Guys--are you flipped over flip-flops?


These days it seems that way. Once the lowly men's footwear was relegated only to the beach, the shower room, the college dormitory and the college campus, now flip-flops have captured the imagination of designers across the industry, from Mossimo for Target (priced at approximately the all-time-low $5) to Hermes, the high couture French fashion house (priced at a whopping $250).


No doubt about it--flip-flops have reached a definite "fashion status." And they're an essential part of every man's cool, urban, forward-fashion wardrobe, in a wide variety of colors, patterns and materials. In fact, men may now own several pairs of flip-flops, like athletic footwear, for different reasons and at different price points.


Shopping for flip-flops can be fun and easy with almost every retailer offering its own label or, for the high-end designers, their own signature name, in flip-flops. Can you believe that there's even a status thing going on with flip-flops?

 

Check out Gap (rubber), available at all area Gap stores, Nautica ("Zori," rubber), available at Macy's, Adidas ("Leucadian," nylon and rubber), available on their own store website, J. Crew (grosgrain, nubuck and rubber), available at the Shops at Liberty Place, Center City, and Diesel Footwear ("Jobim," nylon, mesh and leather), available at Diesel on Walnut Street, Philadelphia.


Signature designers also feature flip-flops, including Polo Ralph Lauren ("Dentric," rubber), available at Ralph Lauren, Shops at the Bellevue,  A/X Armani Exchange (polyester and rubber,), available at all area stores, and Puma ("Footie," rubber), available at Foot Locker.


Other high-end flip-flops have been designed by Paul Smith, Dolce & Gabbana, Hugo Boss, Bottega Veneta, Louis Vuitton, Oakley and Salvatore Ferragamo.


The only downside of flip-flops are warnings from foot doctors who suggest not wearing them all the time as the insert can cause irritation and infection between the toes and the lack of support can be hard on the bottom of your feet, especially if you're hitting the concrete most of the time walking around the city in your favorite, most stylish flip-flops. This means that you should alternate wearing flip-flops with sandals, athletic footwear and even, yes, your shoes.


What to wear with your flip-flops?


For summer, you can wear the bright, happy colors and the wild, all-over, patterns of summer on garments from casual dress shirts to surfer swim trunks.


These days you can even do casual, hip, beach look, even when you're out partying in the city, you can sport the latest and greatest in board (as in surf board) shorts. Quicksilver features a retro, psychedelic, screen-print, three-dimensional graphic design, actually inspired, by record album designs from Grand Funk (priced at $45) and available from Quicksilver Boardriders Club stores.


Bargain hunters alert:  The discount houses are already stocking their shelves with marked down prices for several brand names of flip-flops. You'll find them currently at Daffy's in Center City, Philadelphia, and you'll smile at the prices.


Happy Shopping!
 

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The Circle of Our Lives - Music That Unites
Saturday, June 14, 2008, 8 p.m.

 
Click HERE to learn more about The Circle of Our Lives - Music That Unites Join the Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus (PGMC) and their fellow GALA Choruses from throughout the tri-state region, performing together for the first time ever, for The Circle of Our Lives - Music That Unites, an evening of unity and pride expressed in song.

 

The evenings concert will include the Anna Crusis Women's Choir, Harrisburg Men's Chorus, Lehigh Valley Gay Men's Chorus, New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus, Philadelphia Voices of Pride, and the Rainbow Chorale of Delaware.

 

Featured works include "Sing Me to Heaven"; Cris Williamson's "Sister"; the song cycle "Changing Hearts"; Garth Brooks' anthem to diversity, "We Shall Be Free"; "Come Share Our Pride," commissioned by the New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus; and "The Circle of Our Lives," sung by the combined choruses.

 

Together, their voices give testimony to the power of music to change lives, build bridges, and open hearts. This is a rare opportunity to experience the full spectrum of the queer choral experience in our region.

 

Silent Auction: A pre-concert reception and silent auction will be held at 6:30 p.m. to benefit PGMC as they prepare to participate in GALA Choruses Festival VIII in Miami in July 2008.

 

Tickets: Tickets for the concert are now available online @ PGMC's tickets page. Tickets also available @ the following locations: Giovanni's Room (12th & Pine Streets), the PHAG Shop, 1225 Walnut Street, Matthew Izzo, 1109 Walnut Street, or at the door the night of the concert.

 

Concert Location: Congregation Rodeph Shalom 615 North Broad Street

 

For more information: visit pgmc.org

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National
Anti-gay church to picket funeral (CA)
Atlanta's gay history on display
GLAD Launches Transgender Rights Project
Judge Sides With Foes Of Transgender Measure (MD)
Medgar Evers College cheers graduate from its 1st gay club (NY)
RI Lesbian Divorce Battle Loses Another Round
San Fran City Official's Gay Boyfriend Sentenced in House Trashing and DUI
Santa Rosa church: Anti-gay protest (CA)
SC school district mulling ban of gay-friendly student club
Southern Baptists Seek "Disassociation" of Church with Active Gay Members
Youngstown church welcomes gay, bisexual, lesbians to its congregation
International
Church woman 'bullied gay worker' (UK)
Church woman denies anti-gay digs (UK)
Defamation suit against gay men settled out of court (Canada)
Gambia: Mob Violence And Murder Feared After President's Gay Beheading Threat
Gay And Lesbian Organization Sues Vakit For Calling Them Perverts (Turkey)
Gay tourists released from Gambian jail
Kazakhstan to have its first gay parade
Minister who called gay rugby 'apartheid' is sacked (UK)
Three sought after gay man assaulted (Canada)
Uganda: Don't Legalise Gay Acts, Says Bishop
Marriage Equality
Anglicans grapple with same-sex marriage issues (Canada)
Bishop Murphy: Paterson 'just wrong' on gay marriage (NY)
Canadian Catholic Priest Opposes Same-Sex Marriage, Faces Possible Prosecution
Gay-marriage ruling could boost California's ailing economy
Lawsuits in defense of gay marriage can backfire, activist groups warn (CA)
N.Y. gay couples plan to dash to altar by way of Calif.
No charges for gay couple seeking marriage license (NY)
Norway legalises gay marriage
Poll: Support for Gay Rights (NY)
States at odds over gay marriage recognition


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