Amsterdam Pride weekend is underway and I’m embedded with BearCruise.com for the celebration. This corresponds with another big event — the anniversary of me purchasing and hitting the reset button …
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The calm before the proverbial storm. The Dog Days of Summer. Call it what you like, but the next month is one of the quietest of the year in the …
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“Houston. The Eagle has landed!” With those words, man’s first landing on the moon was communicated to the world this week some 56 years ago. And now, “Cathedral City. An …
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Come From Away is the musical about the flights diverted on September 11th to a small town in Newfoundland. It shows the humanity of people caring for each other in …
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Trump funk. That’s how I’d describe the mood in my small town of Hastings, Michigan, as residents celebrated the 4th of July. The pre-holiday concert drew a big crowd as …
Activism Charities Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Jun 30, 2025
Obergefell is not a name that rolls off the tongue. But Jim Obergefell’s name ten years on is one for the LGBTQ history books. June 26 marked the 10 year …
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Supreme injustice. That’s how I would term the high court’s ruling this week on transgender care for youth. Fighting back is Thomi Clinton and her team at the Transgender Health …
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What was your favorite “No Kings Day” protest sign? I’d see one, snap a photo and think it was brilliant. Then another would pop up. And so it went here …
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What were Pride parades like in the 1970s just after Stonewall? Pat Rocco documented them on film and later, video, in archives that live today due to the efforts of …
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Pee-wee Herman — aka Paul Reubens — was going into the closet about the time that I was coming out. Pee-wee as Himself, an HBO Original two-part documentary debuted last Friday …