When legendary music manager Frank Murray (the Pogues, Thin Lizzy, etc.) announced he wanted to make Fleadh Austin a revel that would rival St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Boston, New York and other Irish-American metropolises, we smiled. That would be lovely, wouldn’t it, daydreamed the Irish half of my brain. Frank Murray, Kay Gourley and Dara Murray Pronounced “flah,” fleadh is Gaelic for festival. Murray lined up some of his Irish acts — Broken Records, the Lost Brothers, Julie Feeney, Villagers, the Minutes, the Mighty Stef and the Coronas for the St. Paddy’s party at the Fourth Street Fort (former Levi’s ...

Form our various spies this week and compiled in Newsmakers … You can’t leave the house without tripping over a celebrity during South by Southwest. On Sunday night, singer Patty Griffin and “Friday Night Lights” actress Dana Wheeler-Nicholson were among those celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Hotel San Jose. R&B legend Barbara Lynn rocked a crowd in the parking lot, and then Amy Cook, David Garza, Dan Dyer and other locals honored hotelier Liz Lambert in the hotel courtyard. … On Monday morning, Ashton Kutcher wrote to his 4.6 million Twitter followers that he was “Headed to South by Southwest.” Later, ...

Mayor Lee Leffingwell welcomed the SXSW guests to Austin on Wednesday. I didn’t hear him do so. In fact, I’ve come to think of Leffingwell as our stealth mayor. He’s always on the job, always doing the city’s work, mind you. But I always just miss him, unlike his predecessor Will Wynn, who stuck around, soaking up the sunlight of Austin socializing. Erin and Michael Portman Just different styles, that’s all. The party — and the exchanges of vital SXSW information — still continued after Leffingwell slipped back into his no-nonsense office off the City Hall extension called the Mayor’s Balcony. ...

Heading from the amicable Fleadh Austin at the Fourth Street Fort to the more established, roped-off St. Patrick’s Day festival at Fourth and Lavaca streets, I passed SXSW guests bemused by this improvised Green Circuit. While the Fleadh was free, the tented fest outside Fado’s cost $15. Costumes, beads and funny hats proliferated. Erin Johnson and Caitlin Kuhn I encountered something unexpected for Austin: The closest we come to Irish toughs. Here were a couple dozen guys, bulked up, wearing the green like a dare, horseplaying early in the afternoon, but looking entirely capable of scuffling as the hours and the ...

We all need a little respite. My SXSW began Wednesday, March 10. By Wednesday, March 17, I was still on pace, not fatigued, but definitely slowing down. And SXSW Music had only just begun. Five more days to go. Sometimes, readers say to me: “I get tired just reading your column.” I get tired just reading about the 1,900 bands and 700+ sideparties during SXSW Music. There’s no way to pace that. I don’t even try. Anyway, after the Mayor’s Welcome, I toddled across the street with colleague Marcus Harper for appetizers at III Forks. Ideal respite. Key ingredient: The room was ...

GetEQUAL – whose co-founder Robin McGehee was arrested along with Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo earlier today — organized another protest, a sit-in, today, this time for ENDA with co-found Kip Williams. And the protest was bi-coastal, in both of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s offices in Washington and San Francisco. The protesters vowed to sit in the offices until ENDA was brought to a vote or they were arrested.The protest targeted Pelosi because as Speaker of the House she can move the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to a voteWatch Kip Williams explain why the sit in is ...

Durante la scorsa puntata de "L'isola dei famosi" Aldo Busi ha annunciato il suo ritiro dal reality, attaccando un po' tutti e tutto come da suo stile. Fra le sue affermazioni anche alcune parole rivolte a Benedetto XIV: «Se anche il Papa si scaglia contro gli omosessuali, forse è quello che ormai è risaputo... l'omofobo è un omosessuale represso».Le affermazioni riguardanti il pontefice non sono piaciute per nulla a Viale Mazzini, tant'è che Massimo Liofredi (direttore di RaiDue) e Mauro Masi (direttore generale della Rai) hanno dichiarato di aver ravvisato gravi violazioni delle regole e delle disposizioni contrattuali nel suo ...

Il numero di studenti universitari britannici che conoscono qualcuno che abbia lavorato nella pornografia per pagarsi gli studi è cresciuto dal 3 al 25% negli ultimi dieci anni. E' quanto emerge da uno studio del professor Ron Roberts dell'Università di Kingston a Londra.Secondo i dati raccolti, il 16% degli studenti ha preso in considerazione l'ipotesi di lavorare nel campo della pornografia per pagarsi gli studi, con un 11% che si dice pronta a prendere in considerazione anche il lavoro di escort.Anche se il campione preso in esame è concentrato presso un'unica struttura universitaria, il professore afferma che si tratta di ...

“I’ve always been a tomboy!” I exclaimed with a force that I hoped would resonate long after the conversation ended. My mom proceeded to say, “No, you haven’t, you liked wearing dresses.” After sincerely expressing that I never liked or enjoyed wearing either she... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Guess what, dear readers! Score one for the Unenlightened! That’s right! Miss Invisible (that’d be me), has suddenly skyrocketed to the pinnacle of lez badassery. “How?” you ask. Well, let me explain first off that I’m what my friends like to call ’stealth.’ I’m that lesbian. You know, the one that can walk into a girly bar, on girly night, with a bunch of girls, and get asked if I’m the straight best friend. Jeez louise – No, I’m the homo, they’re here with me! And before you go, “Naww, could never happen,” let me tell you—it totally did. It’s ...

A boy and his fancy dogSlava - Jaroslav Mogutin es un fotógrafo ruso, poeta, dramaturgo, director de cine, escritor en varios idiomas y editor. Trabajó en la película de Bruce LaBruce "Skin Flick". Nacido en Siberia fue el primer artista ruso en reconocer abiertamente su orientación sexual. Asilado político en Estados Unidos desde 1995 debido a la persecución a que es sometido en Rusia debido a su trabajo periodístico, de abierto y comprometido carácter Queer , lo que lleva a que se le acuse de "desacato abierto y deliberado de las normas morales generalmente aceptados", "gamberrismo malicioso con un ...

Once again I am forcibly reminded, I am my body. Crossing Queen St on Wednesday on my way to a meeting at the AIDS Foundation, I felt this sudden Bang! like someone had slammed the back of my left calf with a hammer. I’d pulled a muscle, just by running across the road. Pain! And not the fun kind! I rang my Dr, got an appointment. Rang my boss and told her I wouldn’t be back in. Staggered onto the Link and got to the meeting. The Dr couldn’t see me till after 2, and they’re only 5 mins away ...

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A second major report focusing on aging LGBT people was released today. Yesterday, the LGBT advocacy group SAGE released a report that addresses the needs of older populations in general, including members of the WWII generation who now face issues with care facilities. The second report released today focuses on a subset of the population—boomers born between 1946 and 1964. The study found that the LGBT boomers have a broader definition of “family” than do members of the general population and depend on their “chosen family” of friends and associates for a broad range of support. The study ...

   ::: The Episcopal Church gave final approval Wednesday to the election of Mary Glasspool to become a bishop for the Diocese of Los Angeles. When she is consecrated in May, Glasspool will become the first out lesbian bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, Los Angeles Times reports. She is the first out gay or lesbian bishop approved by the church since 2003, when the election of a gay man as bishop of New Hampshire caused such an uproar that the US church, under pressure from other members of the global Anglican Communion, imposed a moratorium on such elevations. ...

Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo lead a crowd of protesters away from an HRC-sponsored rally and toward an act of civil disobedience at the White House photo via CNN by AmericaBlog Lt. Dan Choi and two other LGBT activists were arrested today after chaining themselves to the White House fence in what some other activists have criticized as a a political stunt. Choi released a statement explaining the action: Joined by former U.S. Captain Jim Pietrangelo, honorably discharged in 2004 under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Lt. Choi made a public call to action in ...

     ::: A Dallas Baptist church recently made a slight change to its website which now declares that the church is “a vibrant mosaic of varied racial identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and denominational backgrounds.” The pastor of the church, Royal Lane Baptist, said earlier that the congregation hadn’t changed its bylaws or taken an official vote about LGBT people but said the new website language merely reflects the church’s long practice of welcoming gays and lesbians, including ordaining some as deacons. But putting the words “sexual orientation” into that public description, which appears on the ‘About Us’ page ...

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Because it looks a little silly and cliché to me, and the chemistry between Jesus Luz and Cintia Dicker is clearly nonexistent, especially when compared to the Calvin Klein Jeans campaign with Eva Mendez and Jamie Dornan. ...