Gabi Clayton The political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s has become a subject blighted by misconceptions and stereotypes. To many, it is synonymous with widespread drug abuse, failed social experiments, and general irresponsibility. Few people remember that many of the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today are the direct result of those who defied the established …
Evolution of a feminist daughter Rebecca Walker – the daughter of Alice Walker, the author of “The Color Purple,” and Mel Leventhal, a civil rights lawyer – was a nascent feminist when she laid bare the details of her freewheeling, lonely adolescence in 2001’s, “Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.” The memoir, …
The plaintiff is an elderly judge suing to recover $40,000 he paid to a religious rehab clinic which promised to cure him of being gay – it didn’t work. Alan Shore is a character on the ABC Network television series Boston Legal, portrayed by James Spader. More of Alan Shore on youtube hereAlan Shore on …
On the morning of March 8 in Sioux Center, Iowa, two buses parked outside a hotel were found covered with anti-gay slurs, along with a hate-filled message on a piece of cardboard reading: “God does not love feary fags.” The buses were transporting some 50 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, along with supporters, on …
While the play has inspired protest and controversy, “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” is, essentially, the story of one woman. and A Seattle Repertory Theatre production of the play, adapted from the writings of Corrie, The Evergreen State College student who was killed while standing in the way of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, opens …
In an editorial Johnson failed constituents in The Olympian on March 16, 2007 the writer called our city councilman TJ Johnson a scofflaw which means “a person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices … One who habitually violates the law” I was glad to see that a letter to the editor from Alec and …
Returning to the community center where he gave a 1987 speech that is associated with the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, playwright Larry Kramer marked the 20th anniversary of that activist group by calling for the creation of a gay army with gay leaders fighting for gay people under a gay flag, …
You’d have to be living under a rock in Fiji without electricity to not have heard by now how the odious ultra-conservative pitbull Ann Coulter (left) called Sen. John Edwards (right) a “faggot” during her remarks last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). But what you may not have heard is what an …
Steve wrote: Going into our last weekend of performing Big Voice in New York, we were curious to see if anyone would notice. The reaction to the show was explosive from the very first word. In fact, all three shows over the weekend were like this. But, probably because it was such a special occasion, …