The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) will award outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in news and entertainment media at the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented by IBM.
This year there are 185 nominees in 41 categories that include Outstanding Film; TV Journalism; Theatre; Music Artist; and Comic Book; and 15 Spanish language entertainment and news categories.
Throughout its history, portraiture has been used to memorialize the family lineage and honor family patriarchs and matriarchs; however, these visual depictions have focused almost exclusively on the heterosexual family unit. While, heterosexual families have a pronounced and illustrated legacy, gay families have almost no history of depiction. The final years of the 20th century and early years of the 21st have witnessed a determined challenge to and potential redefinition of the traditional meaning of “family.” The shift has been a source of heated debate: nationally in mainstream media and in federal and state political chambers; locally in churches, synagogues, mosques and schools; and personally between peers, coworkers, around the dinner table, and between parents and children. Given this cultural zeitgeist, this project aims to create a visual record depicting gay and lesbian couples and families and thereby will constructively contribute to the current debate.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) re-introduced The Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) in the House and Senate on Thursday. The legislation calls for an end to the immigration discrimination gay and lesbian Americans face when they seek to sponsor a foreign partner to live with them in the United States.
PRESS RELEASE:
CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS from Queer Women of Color Filmmakers for “Queerly Irreverent”
for our 5th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
QWOCMAP, the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, invites queer women of color film-
makers to submit your satirical, hella funny and thoughtful short films to QWOCMAP’s 5th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, to be held at the Brava Theater, San Francisco, June 12-14, 2009.
We know no one can hear us when we talk back to the news, but that doesn’t faze us. We add insightful and irreverent commentary to Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman. We express our outrage over the crimes against our sister “Jane Doe” in Richmond and Oscar Grant in Oakland. We know about Harvey Milk and we think that everyone should know about Barbara Jordan. And we just know that any one of the
fabulous and funny queer women of color we love would be a better host for the Daily Show.
Whether you’re dealing with marriage equality, environmental justice or corporate jerks, immigration, sovereignty or suckas, we want to see your take on the issues that matter most to you and our communities. Make us laugh. Make us cry. Make us laugh until we cry. We can handle it, we’re queer women of color!
VRadio’s Big Poppa G and Out Impact’s Bambi Weavil, air in a special Friday night edition of “Pro Wrestling Advocates” a candid interview with TNA Legends Champion Booker T. Booker T goes in-depth to how important it is to him to be a professional in the wrestling industry, what things have changed in pro wrestling in the 19 years he’s been involved, what he tells his students at his wrestling academy, who he has modeled himself after, his legacy in the pro wrestling industry, what he looks forward to at TNA Genesis in Charlotte, North Carolina and more.
As the New Year is welcomed and the country gears up to inaugurate a new president, Yoga Rave 2009 on Jan 10 presents a new way to party in Washington DC. The event, hosted by the Art of Living Foundation, will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington in Columbia Heights. Yoga Rave 2009 helps start the New Year right with a big boost of positive energy and food to replenish the mind, body and heart. The event features:
Yoga Rave 2009 is the “change we need” for fun, energizing and healthful partying with a high of contented self-awareness and no hangover. Individuals and organizations are invited to participate in the event. Sponsorship opportunities are available and free follow-up on-site meditation workshops can also be arranged for interested organizations.
The Art of Living Foundation is a 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization, with a global mission of a “crime-free, stress-free and violence-free world.” Over 20 million people worldwide have benefited from its popular course that teaches yogic breathing and Sudarshana Kriya. In the US, the foundation runs trauma-relief camps for disaster-hit areas (such as Hurricane Katrina), programs for returning war veterans, prisoner reform programs, stress elimination programs for corporations and working adults and programs that are helping turn youth in inner cities away from gang violence, drugs and alcohol to the path of service.
Event Details: Yoga Rave 2009
Where: Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington
Address: 2500 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
When: Jan 10, 2009 7:30 PM-11:30 PM
Price: $35, group discounts and ticket packs are available for 10 or more people.
Other: Smoke, drug and alcohol free. 18+. Please dress in loose, comfortable apparel.
YOGA RAVE PARTY 2009
1-877-Yoga-Rave
yogarave@us.artofliving.org
http://yogarave.info
ART OF LIVING FOUNDATION
2401 15th STREET NW, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009
202.332.5433
A group in San Francisco has launched www.intheparade.com, a website dedicated to supporting LGBT representation in President-Elect Barack Obama’s 2009 inaugural parade.
The site makes it easy to contact members of the Inaugural Committee and congressional representatives via email to voice support in favor of a gay contingent marching in the 2009 inaugural parade.
“President-Elect Obama’s message of hope was built on equality and unity. Real equality and unity means that the gay community is finally included at the table,” said Paula Grace, co-organizer of intheparade.com. “On January 20th 2009 our President-Elect can demonstrate his sincerity and commitment to the true cause of civil rights in a symbolic way: by including a gay contingent in his parade.”
Hundreds of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community members and their friends will gather in Hollywood on election night to watch election results and celebrate the historic campaign to defeat Proposition 8. The event, which will take place at the Music Box @ Fonda Theater, is sponsored by more than 15 national and regional organizations and figures to be the largest LGBT election night party in L.A. history.
Nehirim, a national organization that provides religious and cultural Jewish programming for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) Jews, partners, and allies, will host over 120 GLBT Jews for its second “Queer Shabbaton,” a weekend of queer Jewish culture, spirituality and community, to be held in New York on October 31-November 2, 2008.
Nehirim’s assistant director and co-director of the Shabbaton, Sasha T. Goldberg, says that the Queer Shabbaton, now in its second year, is “about creating our own inclusive, innovative, Judaism, full of queer sensibility, GLBT culture, and Jewish heart.”
As I toured all over the country this summer with True Colors, I saw something in the eyes of the audience I have not seen in a very long time, it was HOPE. Each night as I talked about the power of voting, it was evident through their reactions that the crowd wanted to change how this country is run. That is the one good thing that President Bush has done in the past seven years, he has created a movement within the country to change how things are done in Washington DC. But, what mattered to me the most is that everyone cared enough about their own lives and the future to register and vote.
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