Brighton was awash in a riot of rainbow colours as people dressed up and took to the streets to celebrate LGBTQ+ pride. Approximately 300,000 people descended on the seaside city for one of the UK’s biggest annual summer Pride celebrations today. The Pet Shop Boys are to headline the event in Brighton and Hove in what will be the duo’s first Pride performance in 20 years, organisers said.
From September 7-13, the rich relationship between Key West and Cuba will come into the spotlight during the LGBT Art and Cultural Revolution. For the first three days, attendees can participate in activities that explore the Cuban-influenced heritage of Key West, which welcomed its Cuban neighbors as early as 1831 with its first cigar factory.
The National Trust has reversed a decision to bar volunteers from public-facing duties at a Norfolk stately home if they refuse to wear rainbow sexual equality symbols. Staff at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk were offered behind-the-scenes roles after saying they were “uncomfortable” wearing multicoloured badges and lanyards for a “Prejudice and Pride” event marking 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
Check It, the festival-fave documentary about a gang of LGBT youth of color in Washington, D.C., is coming to a video platform near you. The film tells the story of a group of young LGBT people, mostly African-American, who responded to bullying by forming a gang called Check It in 2009.
The world has changed a great deal in the nearly 20 years since “Will & Grace” first premiered. The show, revolutionary for his portrayal of gay characters in 1998, returns this fall with the understanding that there are still more barriers to break. “When we started it was revolutionary to have two gay characters,” said star Debra Messing. “We were ‘LGB,’ but we stopped at B. My hope is we can now finish the alphabet.”
Video chat company VS Media has given Gay.com, a domain valued at millions of dollars, to a charity that will use it to assist the LGBT community. Gay.com was one of the top online gay personals sites in the world when it debuted in 1997 — and good domain names were so plentiful that companies didn’t need to invent new words for them, like “Google.” But it has lost ground to sites like Manhunt and apps like Grindr.
Using Fun Home and Indecent as evidence—both are Tony Award-winning shows that have earned high praise in the last two years—it would seem lesbian-themed productions might finally be deemed worthy of the Great White Way. In 2017, there might be more room for LGBT themes on the main stage that is so recognized around the world for being the best in both classic and modern theater, and what tourists eagerly purchase tickets for when they visit New York City.
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