In a quiet Ventura business park, the Diversity Collective’s new Community Resource Center had its door wide open, ready for guests to drop in. Inside the lobby, Joseph Summers was quick to greet visitors to the recently opened facility run by the Diversity Collective Ventura County, a group dedicated to providing resources and support to the county’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.
This summer, Frank van Dalen celebrated Pride in Kiev, Ukraine. He did so alongside several thousand police officers in combat gear, marching down side-streets between water cannons positioned to protect drag queens from violent right-wing nationalists. “The level of protection is something that most Americans would wonder about,” recalled van Dalen, vice president of operations at the international Pride organization Interpride. “Police are marching along with Pride participants, forming a line on both sides of the parade. It’s as if you’re cocooned.”
Scores of colorful characters are swapping the slopes for floats and apres ski for “poolside tea” as an LGBTQ-aimed summer event debuts in Aspen. In partnership with the Aspen Chamber Resort Association and National LGBTQ Task Force, Men’s Vows, an online magazine catered to weddings between men, is hosting the three-day “Aspen Summer Holiday,” which kicked off Thursday.
NOW in its 7th year, this annual cinematic celebration of independent queer cinema, the Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (DGLFF) has added more screening venuess that will include Durban’s Outer West LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & intersex) communities. From both a practical and demand-driven perspective, #DGLFF2017 has recognised that for many, the journey to “town” is both expensive and often far.
Hundreds of people are expected to attend the annual Foyle Pride parade in Derry on Saturday. The parade is the highlight of the Foyle Pride Festival which involves a range of events in the local area. A number of the events have already taken place but some others will be held in the coming days. Tomorrow, the Football versus Homophobia’ returns to Bishop’s Field, in Creggan, at 2pm. There will also be a family zone in the Peace Garden in Foyle Street.
All my life I’ve loved Texas: those big skies, big steaks and big attitudes. I’m there several times a year. But Texas doesn’t love me back. Certainly its lawmakers don’t, and lately they’ve been hellbent on showing that. In June the governor signed a bill allowing child welfare groups to refuse adoptions that contradict their “sincerely held religious beliefs.” They can turn away gay men like me.
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