Artists and LGBT community organizations converge to increase awareness and celebrate their work near Fair Park in Southern Dallas.
The two-day event is entitled, “We The People: A Celebration of Queer Arts & Culture”, and will take place Saturday, March 6, and Sunday, March 7, at the South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 S. Fitzhugh, in Dallas.
“Our [...]
Artists and LGBT advocates converge in Southern Dallas in March 2010
Monday Jazzsession Mixtape #37
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“I Love Being Here with You” – Mary Stallings
“Bail Out” – Terje Lie
“Dona Maria” – Rufus Reid
“Lazy Afternoon” – Paul Myers Quartet featuring Frank Wess W/Andy Bey
“Simply Natural” – Carla Cook
“Wallflower Blues” – Somi
“Numerico” – Manuel Valera
“Growin Up” – David Binney, Alan Ferber
“Soaring” – Amanda Tosoff
“I Just Want To Be Close To You” – [...]
UK theater company, The Red Room, presents GAY AFRICA
Just received a note from Topher Campbell, the Artistic Director of London-based theater company, The Red Room, about a exciting and daring event happening February 28 called GAY AFRICA. In partnership with fellow London-based free speech and human rights organization, English PEN, GAY AFRICA is a free event that will bring together a mix [...]
Assisting our African gay family’s efforts for liberation.
As I’ve mentioned before here on the blog, it’s tough to know exactly how to reach out and assist my gay/same-gender-loving family on the continent of Africa withouts connecting with individuals closely related to the varying situations on the ground there. So many stories this week about wrongs against gay people in South Africa, [...]
Musician, Jennie Laws, supports NOH8
From my interview of R&B, jazz artist, Jennie Laws in May of ‘08, I thought she was not only a talented vocalist and musician, but a cool person to get to know, period. Then, Freddie Beat of popolio tipped me off to her NOH8 photo on her MySpace pages. Very cool! (In case [...]
popolio.com is profiling artists for this year’s SXSW in Austin
Freddie Rodriguez, fearless and tireless editor at Austin-based, Mandrake Arts & Media sister site, popolio.com, has already started profiling artists scheduled to appear at this year’s South by Southwest music festival in Austin. Just follow sxsw-2010 tag to catch his writeups.
Why I love Bandcamp
I remember the days of surfing through the clearance section of Half Price Books for cheap overlooked musical goodies, paying 90% less for CDs I’d purchased new before and since lost, then walking out feeling like a champ. Now along with sites like Gritty Goat, I get bleeding edge jams from Bandcamp.com. Especially [...]
Porn and sexual violence
Not that I believe that porn is always sexually violent towards women or men, however more often than not there is a feeling of being witness to someone’s degradation at the very least and someone’s punishment at worst. These thoughts are echoed in a recent AlterNet article by Sam Benjamin of SeXis Magazine entitled, [...]
