Set the Blackberry for March 17. We’ve just announced that Out Professionals will host a very special evening with Village Voice gossip doyen Michael Musto. It’s one of the great “Third Wednesday” events you’ve come to expect from OP.
Toast Musto’s 25th anniversary at the Voice, and fete his new book, Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back (Alyson Publications), in stores this month!
Stay tuned for details.
At a photo shoot last week, more than 500 New Yorkers threw on white t-shirts – and duct-taped their mouths – to appear in the No H8 campaign protesting California’s heinous Proposition 8.
They join celebs from Hal Sparks and Alec Mapa to Kathy Griffin and Jane Lynch.
More at Autostraddle.
Here’s something to celebrate along with the Year of the Tiger. This year, LGBT marchers will participate in the annual Chinatown lunar new year’s parade for the first time. Read the rest of this entry »
Davonne Madison (r.) outed herself in the Daily News today.
The paper profiled Dollhouse, the two-year-old women’s social network she runs with partner Shaun Jackson (l.).
“I’m out of the closet everywhere but my job,” she said. “This article is going to out me.”
So last month, we mentioned that Spanish “hetero-friendly”-hotel group Axel planned to open an NYC property.
Now, Gay City News has details: Read the rest of this entry »
The growing acceptance of gay people in the workplace has – apparently – corresponded with a skyrocketing number of same-sex sexual harassment lawsuits, according to a report this morning.
But sexual-harassment charges can also result from workplace affairs gone wrong, says one attorney. Read the rest of this entry »
Looking to overcome a media blackout imposed by the US Supreme Court, a pair of gay LA filmmakers will use actors to recreate every minute of the federal trial on California’s mariage-equality ban – and braodcast the results online.
More at NYTimes.com.
Miami gay leaders are furious that a star DJ has scheduled his own party the same night as the closing gala of the Winter Party Festival, which benefits gay charities.
Read their open letter to DJ Peter Rauhofer here; they’ve also set up a web site encouraging a boycott of Rauhofer-spun events. Read the rest of this entry »
Will they invest in Splash? Fund Pride parades?
Who knows, but it intrigued us that an outfit called Galileo Capital Management just launched LGBT Capital, which “is preparing to launch a fund that will invest in companies worldwide that provide products and services to the LGBT community.”
More at HedgeCo.Net.
With a recipe collection touted as NYC’s first gay cookbook, lesbian and gay Brooklyn foodies are coming together to demonstrate the borough’s muscle as a culinary hotspot – and, we guess, as a gay mecca that’s overtaken Manhattan in many ways. Read the rest of this entry »
