URNA Staff ThisIsCornwall.co.uk
A dearth of women has led a small rural village to choose a carnival queen with a difference for its centrepiece annual procession – a 6ft-tall hairy-chested carpenter.
The high cost of traditional carnival queen dresses, acc…
Tehelka.com – From Tehelka Magazine
Queer Pride Week comes once a year but millions of Indian women fight all year round – as women, ‘single’ women and lesbians, finds Amrita Nandy-Joshi
Even if they are not fed healthy food, little girls in Indi…
Kentucky.com – By Mary Meehan
Lexington’s Pride Festival returns to downtown for a second year, and amid the more than 50 booths, food vendors and standard festival fare like a Velcro wall, there will be a message.
The festival will highlight the…
HuffingtonPost.com – John Caldon
June marks Pride Month, an annual celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community’s struggle for full equity. Despite the huge strides made toward this goal over the last few decades, there…
Google.com – Associated Press – By Michael Kuchwara
New York (AP) – Sometimes everything just comes together.
The exuberance that permeates “Twelfth Night” has been magically captured by the Public Theater’s buoyant Central Park production of wha…
HollywoodReporter.com – By Kirk Honeycutt
Bottom Line: Real life is not to be found in Cracktown.
As for the accuracy of this film’s title, “Life Is Hot in Cracktown,” it all depends on how you define “hot.” If feverish enactments of rape, murder…
SeattleTimes.NWSource.com – By Janet I. Tu – Seattle Times staff reporter
City-sponsored meetings for gays trigger showdown over privacy vs. public records
The city must release meeting minutes from a city-sponsored affinity group for lesbians, g…
SunTimes.com – By Sandra Guy
1st transgendered marshal to lead Sunday festivities
Chicago’s 40th Pride Parade will be led by its first transgendered grand marshal, actress Alexandra Billings.
Rich Pfeiffer, Chicago’s Pride Parade coordinator f…
EBAR.com – by David Lamble
Pop Star on Ice Hands-down the most impressive and wildly entertaining nonfiction film in this last weekend of the Frameline festival is David Barba & James Pellerito’s intimate and exhaustively documented look at the life…
BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Staff Reporter
Historians have long credited poor and working class drag queens, bull dykes and other transgender and gender-non-conforming people as key participants in the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, but within the…