This weekend in Dallas, February 19 -21, Black Cinematheque Dallas, along with Fahari Arts Institute, DFW Senators, and Mandrake Arts & Media will be hosting a Marlon Riggs Film Festival. The films and shorts begin at 7pm each night at the South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 S. Fitzhugh in Dallas and nightly entry fee is [...]
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Silence Equals Consent tour to challenge homophobia in African-American churches
A frequent guest and commentator here at Mandrake Society Radio podcast, Tuan N’Gai, is producing a tour of speaking engagements to challenge African-American gay people to collectively speak out against homophobia especially within black religious institutions. The tour entitled, Silence Equals Consent, is the mantra of the organization and website, Operation REBIRTH, which N’Gai helped [...]
Podcast: Conversation with Buster Spiller
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I’ve written on this blog and other places that one of my favorite experiences after accepting myself as a gay man was taking part in a inter-generational discussion of black gay men every other Saturday in Houston called The Men’s Gathering. Today, I’m speaking with one of the architects of the The Men’s Gathering in [...]
Book Review: Sefer Digambara Pulkhanim ha’Yehudi by Joseph T. Farkasdi
Uniting the worlds of Judaism and naturism, practitioner Joseph T. Farkasdi has created a special volume of Hebrew religious literature called Sefer Digamabara Pulkhanim ha’Yehudi that reads more like a siddur (or Hebrew prayer book). While the term digambara means “clothed with air” and comes from a order of Jain monks, Farkasdi borrows from that [...]
Podcast: Interviews with Alpha Thomas and Mark Anthony Lord
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This week, I discuss past and present activism within the Dallas LGBT and African-American communities with Alpha Thomas. A long-time activist, mother, and breast cancer survivor, Alpha recalls her cross-coalition work towards HIV awareness and gay adoptions, as well as discussing her intent to re-start Umoja Hermanos, a poetry and support circle for lesbians of [...]
New publishing on Jewish rituals for the naturist
Past Mandrake Society Radio podcast interviewee, Joseph Farkadsi, has just published a new book called Sefer Digambara Pulkhanim ha’Yehudi for those who are currently involved in or interested in the practice of performing Jewish rituals as a part of a naturist lifestyle. The book is literally translated, “Book of Ascetic Nudity Rituals of the Jew”, [...]
Podcast: Interview with Pastor Charles Curtiss of www.onechurchtx.org
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On Mandrake Society Radio podcast this week, Pastor Charles Curtiss of the The One Church in Garland, TX, talks about building his LGBT affirming ministry, his Apostolic / Assemblies of God preaching experience, coming out as gay, and coming out again as a gay Pentecostal. At the beginning of the talk, we’re discussing the video [...]
New video message from Evangelist Byron Zealey
Radically-inclusive Christian minister, Evangelist Byron Zealey has a new video clip to share about tonight’s event at Resource Center Dallas. Find out about this event and more events happening this weekend where you can be welcomed as fully gay and fully Christian on our calendar.
