As a Front of House employee at the La Jolla Playhouse, I had the recent pleasure of working for and seeing Velour: A Drag Spectacular. An autobiography interspersed with artistic drag performances, Sasha Velour told a magnificent story, spreading unabashed joy and uplifting local drag performers along the way. It
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A recent effort has been made to encourage local leaders to ban books in public libraries. States like Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Florida, and Oklahoma have tried to pass policies that restrict what can be presented in public libraries. Many of these books that are being proposed for restriction are about
One of the most recent moral panics to make it to Tennessee state legislation is the criminalization of drag queens. The now-passed legislation has categorized drag as “male or female impersonators” and bans the art form from places where children may be present. The issue was brought to the public’s
Bad Bunny, originally Benito Antonio Martinez, is a well-known reggaeton artist from Puerto Rico. He’s gotten a lot of attention from a large number of people, especially from the Latin queer community. His current popularity, particularly with the release of his latest album “XHLQMDLG,” has prompted the transvestite rapper to
After dominating the charts in the early 2010s, the members of One Direction, all have their own established solo careers now. While the members are using this new freedom as a time to find their own styles and step away from the artistic confinement of a boyband, one member has
Since I do have little experience with the criminal justice system, I am aware of the treatment LGBTQ inmates receive. Without even being convicted of a serious crime, LGBTQ inmates are usually segregated and or placed into solitary confinement where they are restricted with time in the rec yard and
The band, The 1975, played their 1st show in Dubai last month. During their song “Loving Someone” they used the colors of the LGBTQ+ flag in their background. Matty Healy (singer) heard a male fan shouting “Marry Me” as he passed by. After hearing this, Healy went up to the
In a society where we are taught that we are individuals and unique in a world so interconnected by technology, social media, the news and just life, there are all of these subgroups that are arising each and every day. And more and more we are asked to cater to
When I visited Huis Marseille, a photography museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, I discovered Lionel Wendt, a man who hid his sexuality from the public eye despite his homoerotic photography. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (formerly the British colony Ceylon between 1802 and 1948), Lionel Wendt lived from 1900 to
Miley Cyrus has come a long way from the country-grown Hannah Montana star that America fell in love with. The official declaration of the new Cyrus was established with her infamous 2013 VMA performance, where she donned a racy leotard and did questionably inappropriate things to Robin Thicke with a