by Angelica Branco  (Out Impact on Facebook, Out Impact on Twitter) Photos from contributing Out Impact photographer Chiu K. Ng Imagine being called a faggot while you and your boyfriend/girlfriend were just walking down the street in New York City. Imagine trying to have a typical morning with your significant other, and being viciously attacked for one reason and one reason only: you are gay. These anti-gay attacks are what sparked an anti-hate crime rally Thursday, May 16. “This is how I go to work…I will not live in fear,” Miss Stonewall 2013 drag performer Frostie Flakes held ...

La historia se repite. Contacto a une de eses que se deben considerar mis viejes amigues por chat, sms, teléfono o lo que sea. Una respuesta rápida con un "me estaba yendo" o "te pincho más tarde". Y luego nunca sucede. Y yo me pregunto, si no quieren hablar conmigo, ¿para qué contestan? ¿Para qué dicen que sí cuando en realidad es no? ¿Por qué no me dicen que deje de molestar? O sobre todo, ¿por qué quieren seguir utilizando esa etiqueta, "ser mis amigues", si en realidad no tienen interés en mantener el contacto?  Esa gente que conocía cuando ...

by Jackie Lezette (Out Impact on Facebook, Out Impact on Twitter) We all have those habits we’d love to kick and routines we’d like to pick up. Some people want to quit smoking, biting their nails, or eating 1000 calories worth of junk food before bed (Ok, maybe that last problem just applies to me). Some people want to work out each morning, floss nightly, or read for an hour everyday. With the technology and applications that we have access to regularly, wouldn’t you think that there would be something to get us on the right track to these goals? ...

Picture: protesters at today's 'Hardest Hit' march, carrying a sign which is partly written in Braille. It reads "We're being ---- by the government." Someone has written a translation of the Braille word below it: "shafted". Photo copyright Lisa Egan.Yesterday's discussion on the BBC's You and Yours was about disability, cuts and welfare reform, and featured Where's the Benefit's own Bendy Girl. Some contributors' comments offered a clear example of how attitudes to disability haven't really changed much since Victorian times - if not before. Some academic research recently published has been talking about how these ...

View the story “We Happy Trans” on Storify The post We Happy Trans’ Jen Richards: ‘We have to address the divisions in our community’ appeared first on Gay Online Magazine | Out Impact. ...

Hablando con un amigo, me dice que aunque digo no querer etiquetas identitarias y no hacer políticas identitarias, con el cambio de mis blogs, he hecho precisamente esto: tres etiquetas que se corresponden en su opinión a tres identidades.  Mi reacción inmediata fue decir que no es así, que el blog no está dividido en identidades, sino en temas, además de explicar que yo originariamente no quería dividirme en temáticas, y que por eso había creado mi blog de la forma en la que lo había hecho, pero que acabé rindiéndome ante tanta queja después de años de cabezonería.  Ahora, después ...

Coventry charmer Clive has all the women after him, many of who hoped Sin City would be commercialised porn, but alas it was not. Take a look back through Clive's career and you can find some nice shots of his bod. Most recently, in Shoot 'Em Up in 2007 we get to see his lovely butt while he makes love to Monica Bellucci - hairless and handsome! In 1997 he starred in Bent, baring his ass again, which we catch yet again in 1993's Century. The star of his flicks if you want to catch ALL of Owen is ...

Temple University Press recently ran a two-part blog wherein we explained the inspiration for and process of researching and writing our new book, Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns. In case you missed it, we're reprinting those for you below. Enjoy!StephenIt would only be a slight overstatement to say that my life changed when I met Charlton McIlwain in 2000. My world wasn’t shaken in the way that it was when I met my wife or witnessed the birth of my children, but my professional life over the past decade would certainly ...

by Stephanie Tumbaga (Out Impact on Facebook, Out Impact on Twitter)   New Delhi-born chef Suvir Saran (Twitter) has nurtured a lifelong passion for the traditional flavors of Indian cooking to become an accomplished chef, cookbook author, and organic farmer. As Executive Chef of Dévi, Saran shared the authentic flavors of Indian home cooking in an inviting restaurant in the heart of New York City. Under Saran’s leadership, Devi consistently received popular and critical acclaim, earning three stars from New York magazine, two stars from the New York Times, and the first Michelin star ever awarded to a U.S. Indian restaurant. Saran serves ...

by Miriam Kamil  (Out Impact on Facebook, Out Impact on Twitter) Rhode Island has just become the tenth state to legalize gay marriage, and more are expected to follow. In this exciting time in history, one company is leading the way in gay wedding planning. Bernadette Coveney Smith is the creator and president of 14 Stories (Facebook, Twitter), the first wedding planning firm to specialize in gay and lesbian weddings in the country. Bernadette is the nation’s leading expert on gay wedding planning. I got to talk with Bernadette and she explained more about ...

By Laura Zaepfel (Out Impact on Facebook, Out Impact on Twitter) Held Saturday, May 4th at SIR Stage 37 in New York City, the “Fashion Loves Animals” benefit fashion show and cocktail party honored Leanne Mai-Ly Hilgart for her Vaute Couture work, an animal free line of clothing. She made history earlier this year with the first all-vegan fashion label at New York Fashion Week, which placed her on the news pages of places such as CNN with her cruelty free couture. Launched in the summer of 2009, the goal of Hilgart’s first project, and what started the Vaute ...