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Out on Broadway: A visual legacy celebrates LGBT experience in the theatre.

January 30, 2018 compassq Comments Off

Hudson County Community College Department of Cultural Affairs currently presents the exhibition Out on Broadway: A Visual Legacy, celebrating the LGBT experience in theatre, through March 2 at the College’s Benjamin J. Dineen, III and Dennis C. Hull Gallery in the HCCC Library in Jersey City. Curated by designer James E. Crochet, the exhibit features characters and costumes from a host of Broadway shows.

Gay conversion therapy film has won the Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize.

January 29, 2018 compassq Comments Off

The Chloe Grace Moretz film “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” has won the Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize. Awards were announced Saturday evening in Park City, Utah. Adapted from a 2012 novel by Emily M. Danforth, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” is about a teenage girl who is sent to a gay conversion center. Moretz dedicated the award to LGBTQ survivors of sexual conversion therapy.

Memorializing LGBT history, one podcast at a time.

January 29, 2018 compassq Comments Off

When Brad Dunshee moved to San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood five years ago, he inadvertently moved next to a queer landmark. The now-43-year-old digital media professional discovered his apartment was down the block from the former Compton’s Cafeteria, where an LGBT uprising took place in 1966, three years before the Stonewall riots.

The Mystic Krewe of Apollo de Lafayette is now the largest gay krewe anywhere.

January 27, 2018 compassq Comments Off

The Cajundome Convention Center will be transformed to lights, camera, “Apollo” as their krewe hosts its 42nd ball Saturday night. The Mystic Krewe of Apollo de Lafayette is now the largest gay krewe anywhere, but it started out much smaller when members founded it in 1975.

I’m christian, conservative & gay…and I work for Fox News.

January 25, 2018 compassq Comments Off

Fox News contributor Guy Benson is going viral for a video in which he talks about being a gay Christian conservative. “When it comes to my political beliefs, my orientation is only one part of the story. It’s not the totality of who I am,” Benson said in the video for Prager University. “Some unimaginative leftists like to believe this qualifies me as a self-hating gay person. This is so boring.”

Why gay bars are disappearing across America.

January 24, 2018 compassq Comments Off

confluence of factors contribute to the rapid disappearance of gay bars and queer spaces across America, according to Zach Stafford, editor-in-chief of Grindr’s magazine INTO. Many blame dating apps as the digital access to potential partners obviates the need for in-real-life flirting and, as Stafford notes on this week’s episode of the Eater Upsell podcast…

These talented LGBT people made Oscars history today.

January 24, 2018 compassq Comments Off

At least three members of the LGBT community made history today with the announcement of the 2018 Academy Award nominations. Out lesbian Dee Rees became the first African-American woman nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Mudbound, which also earned out cinematographer Rachel Morrison the distinction of being the first woman nominated for Best Cinematography.