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Coming soon, food, fun and drag queens in Charlotte.

August 17, 2017 compassq Comments Off

In what the organizers are calling “our coming-out story,” the South End club Boulevard 1820 is changing into a drag queen-themed restaurant starting Aug. 22, with servers and performers in drag. While similar restaurant concepts exist in New York, Atlanta, Orlando and other cities, including the national chain Hamburger Mary’s and the Atlanta restaurant Lips, Boulevard 1820 will be the first of its kind in Charlotte, according to Kolby Brinkley, an owner of the new restaurant at 1820 South Blvd., downstairs from Tupelo Honey.

Is the LDS’s support for the LoveLoud Festival just good PR?

August 16, 2017 compassq Comments Off

A first-time music festival aimed at supporting LGBTQ youth charities will bring several big names to Orem later this month and now has a statement of support from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The LoveLoud Festival will be held Aug. 26 at Utah Valley University’s Brent Brown Ballpark and will be a homecoming of sorts for Imagine Dragons and Neon Trees, two bands whose paths to stardom began in Utah.

“Hooked”, a film about homelessness among LGBT youth in America.

August 16, 2017 compassq Comments Off

The Redhouse Theater Thursday evening will be screening a new film to raise awareness of homelessness among LGBTQ youth in America. “Hooked” is the directorial debut of former model and actor Max Emerson. “It is a huge, silent epidemic you don’t hear enough about. 40% of homeless youth are LGBT.” Emerson tells NewsChannel 9.

Panti Bliss, an Irish force for the LGBT community.

August 15, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Ireland’s Panti Bliss is an LGBTQ icon you’ve probably never heard of – but it’s time to take notice. Panti has been instrumental in Ireland’s fight for marriage equality and is well known for hosting the Alternative Miss Ireland event. If that wasn’t enough, she also hosts the incredible Pantibar pride parties. Although Panti is known in the LGBTQ circles, her alter ego Rory O’Neill made her a household name.

The brands that got it right supporting Pride.

August 15, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Every June, big brands show their appreciation for LGBT dollars, I mean dignity, by featuring queer faces in their ads and brand messaging. On one hand, it’s quite heartwarming and affirming to walk around cities throughout the world and see Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flags waving in store fronts and from lamp posts.

Bob Mackie will design costumes for revived musical, When Pigs Fly.

August 15, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly, the 1996 musical created by late costume designer-playwright Crabtree and Mark Waldrop, will be revived Off-Broadway beginning October 6 at Stage 42. The revue, which features music by the late Dick Gallagher, was praised for its wit and irreverent humor as it skewered gay culture and American politics in the late 1990s—including references to Newt Gingrich and legislation that proposed curtailing gay rights. The humor carried over into Crabtree’s outlandish and dazzling costume designs, who was called a “mad genius” in a rave review in the New York Times. Crabtree died of AIDS days after completing work on the original designs for When Pigs Fly. Iconic Hollywood fashion designer Bob Mackie will create the all-new designs […]

Miami’s Gay8 Festival moves to February 2018.

August 15, 2017 compassq Comments Off

Along with its new date — Feb. 18, 2018 — Gay8 Festival on Monday released an updated trailer for the third annual LGBTQ party on Calle Ocho. Gay8, a free street festival to celebrate LGBTQ art, music and culture on Southwest Eighth Street between Southwest 14th and 17th avenues, began in 2016. Thousands attended that year, and even more people turned out in January 2017, organizers said.