Palm Springs Pride: 15 Reasons to Celebrate in the Desert
It’s been a long, wild ride since June, but Pride season is finally drawing to a close. During the weekend of Nov. 7-9, Palm Springs holds its annual celebration, the year’s last hurrah…
Plans set for 50th anniversary of LGBT-rights movement
Official plans will be announced Thursday, Nov. 6, for the 50th anniversary celebration of the start of the organized LGBT civil rights movement, Windy City Times has learned. A press conference will be…
Valley Voice: To enjoy gay pride, you must shed shame
The gay community certainly has much to be proud of this year. There is unprecedented gay and lesbian acceptance in our society and in much of the world. Everyone — gay, straight and…
Philadelphia Unanimously Passes Hate Crime Law
Less than two months after a brutal antigay assault in Philadelphia’s City Center saw a gay couple put in the hospital, the city council unanimously passed an ordinance that imposes elevated punishments for…
Rehoboth film festival in flux
The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival all began in 1997 with a newspaper ad and a meeting of like-minded friends. “I placed an ad in the Delaware Coast Press asking for anyone interested…
5 Ways to Party with Pride
Lavish parade floats and an energetic two-day outdoor festival under the sun may be the calling cards of Greater Palm Springs Pride (Nov. 7-9), but there’s plenty to do after dark during this…
Pride moves downtown, with most events free
It’s going to be a big weekend in Palm Springs, with outdoor music and DJs, pool parties, a parade and other events. Oh, and by the way, it is for the most part,…
LGBT History Month: Why LGBT History Matters
“The past is never dead; it’s not even past.” – William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun In my former life as an adjunct professor of U.S. History, I started every syllabus with this quotation,…
Boxers, the NYC gay sports bar, opens on Walnut St.
Just as the fall chill swept in comes the debut of Boxers, a gay sports bar whose shirtless staff wears boxers as a uniform. Boxers, which has several locations in New York, replaces…
Gay Bar Planned for Historic Core
Downtown has a handful of nightlife spaces that feature LGBT parties and events, but none devoted to a gay audience. That may change in early 2015 with new plans to open an LGBT-oriented…