This just in from one of this site’s Facebook fans, Stacy Crockett. This is going down Monday, January 11.
Come help me celebrate Sonya Jevette’s Birthday!!!!! She will be on the air with BikerFM.com’s Shelley Brooks @ 9PM and then at Backbeat Cafe @ The Mosaic Lofts in downtown Dallas at 11PM. Every year Sonya [...]
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Dallas rocker, Jevette, rocking the radio for her birthday
Dallas poet, Audaciously Speaking, needs our community’s help
I just received this note from Shelly Simpson of the Heeling Soles Foundation with a request to our local community for Audaciously Speaking, an outstanding spoken word artist and author of the book, I Can Make Walls Talk, available now at Jokae’s African-American Books, 3223 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., in Dallas.
On stage she is known [...]
NY Times articles highlight more of Ugandans side of the anti-gay conflict.
This special multimedia feature posted at NY Times features four individuals in Uganda, two transmen and two heterosexual men, and where they stand around the issue of the proposed “death to gays” amendment in the parliament. Since the recent retraction of support from key U.S. religious and political figures (also reported about in [...]
Looking back, going forward: Health care after Hurricane Katrina
This year will mark the five year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. As the currently passed health care reform keeps everyone wondering how things will actually change, a watchful eye on how the new regulations could affect citizens living and rebuilding in New Orleans may be the most accurate barometer. The following [...]
Hip-hop artist, Feloni, to release her second and last CD in 2010.
Lesbian hip-hop artist, Feloni spent the better part of Saturday. January 2 sharing public tweets about her upcoming CD, Love Spent, and her plans for it to be the last project under that name, stating that she “has done what she needed to do”
“As I’ve stated in the past, I’m not a rapper. I got [...]
Podcast conversations from 2009 with LGBT authors
I had several conversations with Black LGBT authors, local and national, in preparation of the Fire & Ink III: The Cotillion, which happened in Austin, TX, in October 2009. Click on the following picture links to catch any conversations you may have missed!
Annise Parker has been elected as mayor of Houston, Texas
Despite mailers which attacked her for being lesbian, Annise Parker was elected mayor of Houston, Texas this evening with 53% of the vote, while opponent, Gene Locke, got 47%. Congratulations, Annise, on your win!
