Our choice for Cocktail Music this week is the song “Gonna Be You” from 80 FOR BRADY. An all-star cast of iconic singers including Dolly Parton, Belinda Carlisle, Cyndi Lauper, and Gloria Estefan release the new single “Gonna Be You” from the Paramount Pictures film 80 FOR BRADY. The song “Gonna Be You” (R.A.F/BMG) is written by Honorary Oscar®, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning songwriter Diane Warren and produced by Damon Elliott. Stream, download and share the song by clicking HERE. https://youtu.be/AeNkqcgfjMg
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The National Center for Transgender Equality has released its 2022 Remembrance Report to honor the 47 known transgender people killed since November 2021. The information in this report has been compiled from a variety of sources, including national and local news outlets; national, state, and local LGBTQ+ organizations; and social media posts. “Transgender Day of Remembrance is a difficult day for our community as we continue to experience violence and discrimination,” said Alexis Vida Rangel, policy counsel for the National Center for Transgender Equality. “This report honors the vibrant lives of our trans siblings. We are not just statistics. We matter.” This report is,…
We are all trying the best we can to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. For everyone who is quarantined at home, laughter may prove to be the best medicine. Here’s a segment from SpongeBob SquarePants that we saw the other day that made us laugh. We found it very relevant to what we are all going through now. What do you think? https://youtu.be/eUctdVLABgM
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that federal law prohibits discrimination against workers for being LGBTQ. The ruling affirms long-sought federal protections for LGBTQ people in the workplace. The 6-3 decision, states that anti-LGBTQ discrimination is a form of sex discrimination, thus prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch stated. “Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what…
“I love Las Vegas because it always has something going on,” says entrepreneur Eduardo Cordova who changed Las Vegas’ gay nightlife forever when he opened his award-winning LGBTQ lounge, The Garden. Eduardo saw that, while Las Vegas was a spectacular city for nightlife, it was missing one thing: an upscale venue for LGBTQ visitors and residents alike. Part playful and part opulent, The Garden has been wowing visitors and locals for years, cementing itself as one of Vegas’ top spots. They serve signature cocktails like The Cher, which combines Empress gin, fresh lemon, passionfruit, and pineapple juice, before being topped…
A recently released book brings to light the passionate, lifelong love affair between Rose Cleveland, the sister of President Grover Cleveland, and Evangeline Simpson, a wealthy widow who was known for her humanitarian work with the American Red Cross during the First World War. According to the NY Daily News: The new book published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, “Precious and Adored, The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918″ contains the captivating correspondence between the two women that started in the late 1800s. It recreates “the story of one of the most remarkable love relationships between…
Film lovers everywhere are mourning the death of director Joel Schumacher who died in New York on Monday at the age of 80. Schumacher’s films included The Lost Boys (1987), The Client (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), Flatliners (1990) and Dying Young (1991), both starring Julia Roberts, and Falling Down (1993), with Michael Douglas. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Schumacher had an uncanny ability to recognize young talent, and he cast members of “The Brat Pack” — including Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy — in St. Elmo’s Fire (1985). He also boosted the careers of other young actors like Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Matthew…
Kenneth Anger, the visionary filmaker and author of Hollywood Babylon, inspired, outraged, and entertained generations of people around the world. According to the Sprueth Magers gallery that represented him: Through his kaleidoscopic films, which combine sumptuous visuals, popular music soundtracks, and a focus on queer themes and narratives, Anger laid the groundwork for the avant-garde art scenes of the later twentieth century, as well as for the visual languages of contemporary queer and youth culture. His earliest works, such as the 1947 black-and-white ecstatic short, Fireworks, established Anger as an enfant terrible of the filmmaking underground. In his works of…
At a time when hateful Republicans around the country are demonizing trans people, and passing laws that put their fellow citizens’ lives at risk, a brave woman in Nebraska is saying enough is enough. That heroic woman is democratic State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, who is determined to stop a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. According to LGBTQ Nation: When the bill advanced out of committee, she vowed to filibuster every bill proposed in the unicameral legislature this year until the anti-trans bill is off the table. “If this Legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children…