Archive for November, 2009

Tonight! Meet, mingle, make contacts at OP’s winter Networking Mixer

November 30, 2009

Meet new members.  Mix with friends.  Make great contacts.

It all happens tonight at OP’s winter Networking Mixer.

Join us at Murray Hill hotspot VIG27, 119 E. 27th St. (btw Park & Lexington).  Out Professionals members get two free drinks and delicious tapas, on OP! (more…)

Even in liberal NY and NJ, same-sex marriage rights are far from certain: Report

November 29, 2009

Don’t get too comfortable.

That’s what we think when we see headlines like this -

Gay marriage momentum stalls in liberal NY, NJ
-which ran on the Associated Press wire a couple days ago. (more…)

Another gay magazine shuts down

November 28, 2009

We’ve never seen Zero, a gay glossy in Spain.

Now, it looks like we never will.  (more…)

New “Buying for Equality” shopping guide makes gay/lesbian holiday dollars work for us

November 27, 2009

Just in time for the holiday rush, the Human Rights Campaign‘s released Buying for Equality, a guide that helps you “support businesses that support us” as you shop. (more…)

Lesbian/bi characters we’re thankful for

November 26, 2009

To celebrate Thanksgiving, AfterEllen offers praise for realness in portrayals of lesbian/bi women in TV and movies today.

Among those singled out: Callie Torres (played by Sara Ramirez), Grey’s Anatomy(l.); Luce (Lena Heady), Imagine Me & You (2nd l.) Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep), The Hours; Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey), The L Word; and, interestingly, Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show (r.), who – FYI – is a real person.

Read more.  And happy Turkey Day!

Blogger: Gay people must write to Disney to protest Adam Lambert cancellation

November 25, 2009

Double standard?  Us?

That could be ABC’s response to complaints that it canceled Adam Lambert’s Good Morning America appearance today because of the guy-on-guy action in his American Music Awards performance this week. (more…)

No Thanksgiving comfort for some of NYC’s lesbian, gay, trans, and bi youth

November 24, 2009

Except for ill-advised use of the word “lifestyle” to describe a trans person, there’s a pretty sensitive report in NYU’s Washington Square News about LGBT youth who can’t go home for Thanksgiving because their families have rejected them.

“I think NYU and Greenwich Village cloud our vision of reality,” one student says. “There are literally thousands of LGBT homeless youth in New York City, and many NYU students are unaware.”

Read more.

Were you there? OP and OP.LYNX Mixer Fills Chelsea’s Rubin Museum

November 23, 2009

The latest in OP/OP.LYNX’s “Museum Mixers” series was a smash.

Hundreds of people packed Chelsea’s Rubin Museum Friday for a night of schmoozing, handshakes, air-kisses, and business-card exchanges.

Above:  OP.LYNX chair Aliya Hallim-Byne, OP.LYNX co-founder Alina Wilczynski, Nyna Kennedy.

Gay travel update: More choices than ever in lesbian/gay cruises, report says

November 22, 2009

We are, as Woody Allen called himself, “a landlocked Hebrew”.

But in spite of our aversion to water, we can see the appeal of a lesbian or gay cruise.

If that’s what floats your boat – sorry – The Toronto Star reports you’ve got more choices than ever. (more…)

Mattel’s “Gay Ken” doll among biggest branding flops in history, paper says

November 21, 2009

We figured we’d share something light for the weekend – like this hilarious story from the Vancouver Sun.

A look at the most notorious branding flops of the last couple decades includes 1993′s Earring Magic Ken doll – a circa 1991 Christopher Street clone which also became known as “Gay Ken”. (more…)


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