LGBTQ* Documentaries You Should Know
Before Stonewall (1984)
full movie featured above
Hi All,
I will be in Chicago next Thursday-Sunday. My SO (significant other) and I will be attending a Cubs game and visiting with a few friends. This includes meeting up with the lovely and talented Dustin (DustinAlex91.tumblr).
It will be my first time in Chicago. If you are from there or have any recommendations on things that can be done/should be seen, please let me know.
Keep On, Keeping On!
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LBGTQ* Theatres YOU SHOULD Know
About Face Theatre - Chicago (following text from About Face’s Website)
Mission: About Face Theatre creates exceptional, innovative, and adventurous plays to advance the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity, and to challenge and entertain audiences in Chicago, across the country, and around the world.(from website)
Current Production:
Internet personality/trans activist/ fierce community leader Ms. Ma uses her YouTube page to create community, live glamour, and spread the good word about queer safe spaces in Chicago. WHAT’S THE T? tells the story of Ms Ma’s tangled web of connections, her struggle to stay positive, and what happens to her community when she disappears.
Inspired by issues of race, gender, age and class in Boystown, WHAT’S THE T? is based on true stories and interviews from LGBTQA young folks in and around Chicago.
(for more information, visit their Box Office!)
Want to get to know more about the AFT Interns?! Visit their Tumblr. (http://aboutfaceinterns.tumblr.com/)
LBGTQ* Art and Mural History
Oil Painting Mural from Gold Coast bar, 1973, by Dom “Etienne” Orejudos.
The Gold Coast bar opened in 1958, making Chicago the first city in the country to have a leather bar.
from: www.chicagoist.com
The 2000 census did not count gay marriages directly, so the following are estimates based on how people reported their household. It counts households with 2 members of the same sex that are unrelated. 2010 census information on gay couples has not yet been compiled.
(Note from Know Homo: Imagine how much HIGHER these numbers will be?!)
Gay people make up 1-4% of the population in most cities, but are more concentrated in metropolitan areas.
Most Same Sex Couples by City:
About KNOWhomo
glitter ≠ liberation either, shockingly enough
Decriminalization of Homosexuality by decades worldwide (click for larger image)
I recently finished another collection of Alison Bechdel’s amazing Dykes to Watch Out For. It struck me that her comics dealt with the same issues...
Five Ways to Spot Somebody Suffering from Transphobia
