20 films that support the LGBT lifestyle ran at the 28th Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival in Honolulu. About 1,500 people attended this year’s event, which ran over nine days. Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell was one of the attendees. And Island News’ own Brenton Awa and Moanike’ala Nabarro emceed the red carpet party.
In 1931 in Germany, a whole lot of things that had just been permissible a few years before had become suddenly, unequivocally verboten. And you don’t need to be a genius to guess why. Germany was becoming, in 1931, the earliest iteration of what it would be in 1939 – a country repenting for what it saw as its sins of licentiousness by enforcing the strictest social laws and codes.
qFLIX Worcester: New England’s LGBTQ Film Festival presents a series of films that seek to educate and entertain at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Thursday, September 14 through Sunday, September 17. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 18 at 10 a.m.
A Michigan man convicted in the 1995 murder of another man who expressed romantic interest in him on national television has been released from prison. Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz says in an email that 47-year-old Jonathan Schmitz was released on Tuesday from a prison facility in Jackson.
The Bake Off’s youngest baker – known as ‘Cake Boy’ – is aiming the win the TV title but he wasn’t even the best in his class after losing his school’s LGBT competition. Liam Charles, 19, was runner up in the inaugural Great Rainbow Bake Off at Stoke Newington School in north London in 2015. Students were asked to create a baked treat celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender history month but Liam’s wasn’t considered the best.
Digging into the archives, we unearth the original articles printed in the Playbills of yesteryear. The original Broadway production of Jerry Herman’s Tony Award-winning musical La Cage aux Folles opened on Broadway August 21, 1983. The production would go on to win six 1984 Tony Awards, including Best Score (Herman), Best Book (Harvey Fierstein), Best Direction (Laurents), and Best Musical. In the following interview, George Hearn and Gene Barry, who starred in the central roles of Albin (Zsa Zsa) and Georges—a middle-aged gay couple whose love story was the heart of this unconventional new musical—discuss the decision to take on the roles in an era when playing gay characters on stage was still a risky move.
British actor Rupert Everett recounted the “basic terror” of the HIV/AIDS crisis as a gay man in London during the ’80s in an interview with The Guardian. Everett, known for his roles in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” says he became free in his sexuality around the same time HIV/AIDS became prominent.
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