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Gayming Awards 2026 Celebrates Queer Games, Community, and Gayming Icon Darion Lowenstein
Gayming Magazine presented the 6th Annual Gayming Awards in Los Angeles this week, an event that celebrates LGBTQ media, characters, organizations, and creators. The event was streamed on WOW Presents Plus with Erika Ishii, a prolific voice actor, and Dawn, a two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant, as its hosts. Fans, nominees, and GLAAD were invited to attend an in-person viewing party extravaganza at The Vermont Hollywood. The video game nominees for this year’s Gayming Awards included several games also nominated at the 37th GLAAD Media Award, such as Hades II and Lost Records: Bloom and Rage, with both Melinoë and Kat Mikaelsen nominated for the Best LGBTQ+ Character Award. One of the big winners at […]
Cleveland Clinic to promote ‘detransition’ services under DOJ settlement
Trans advocates in Ohio have condemned a federal settlement that the US Department of Justice announced on 6 June, saying Cleveland Clinic will put $2 million into no-cost “detransition” services and actively publicise them while continuing to refuse gender-affirming care for minors. Dara Adkison, executive director of TransOhio, criticised the health system’s decision to comply with the settlement, saying: “Cleveland Clinic, once a highly respected medical institution, continues to show that maintaining medical integrity is no longer their priority by jumping to the front of the line to comply not with science and medicine, but with cruelty and anti-trans hate.” Under the […]
Julia Roberts delivers beautiful tribute to queer mom killed by ICE agent
LGBTQ+ ally, actress Julia Roberts, delivered a beautiful tribute to Renee Nicole Good — the 37-year-old queer mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose killing by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last January began a national outcry against the current president’s anti-immigrant regime — while talking at Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment. The event, held at The Town Hall in New York City, was an occasion “for people around the country to stand up to authoritarian shifts threatening our democracy today,” according to Broadway World. Roberts spoke alongside other allies like Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, and Joy Reid […]
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General Dynamics Protest June 24 in Windsor
The letter General Dynamics Out of Sonoma County sent to the landlord of General Dynamics, Foss Creek Partners, demanding they terminate their lease was ignored! Bob Fraser, Mark Davis, and Kelly McManus, the owners of Foss Creek Partners, are materially supporting a tenant who profits from weapons, genocide, and contracts with DHS / ICE right in our backyard. We won’t be ignored! On Wednesday June 24th at 12pm meet up at Windsor Town Green and we’ll march to the office of Foss Creek Partners and demand General Dynamics Out of Sonoma County!
Mombo’s Pizza: Dine and Donate to Positive Images
Looking for a delicious way to support LGBTQIA+ community this Pride Month?Join Positive Images and Mombo’s Pizza for a Dine & Donate Pizza Party in Santa Rosa on June 25th! When you show our event flyer at Mombo’s, 25% of your purchase will be donated directly to Positive Images, helping us continue providing life-saving support and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ community members. June 25th | 4:00–8:00 PM Mombo’s Pizza – Santa Rosa1880 Mendocino Ave., Suite B Your purchase counts whether you:• Dine in• Order takeout• Purchase merchandise, including T-shirts and gift certificatesBring your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors—the more people who participate, the […]
Arts & Entertainment
Occidental World Music & Dance Festival! at Occidental Center for the Arts May 30
Saturday, May 30 from 10 AM to 9 PM:Occidental World Music & Dance Festival! at Occidental Center for the Arts. This joyful, immersive event brings together extraordinary musicians and dancers from around the world for a day filled with exhilarating performances, interactive workshops, and irresistible rhythms. From captivating traditional artistry to innovative contemporary fusion, the festival invites audiences of all ages to experience the beauty of global cultures up close. With food, vendors, community activities, and plenty of space to dance, it’s a feast for the senses and a celebration of unity through music and movement . More Than 40 […]
Frameline50: Interview with Luchina Fisher, the director of “The Dads”
Inspired by the Emmy Award-winning short documentary of the same name (Netflix, 2023), The Dads chronicles fathers of trans and nonbinary children as they are forced to choose between country and family when a new right-wing administration and conservative Supreme Court take hold in the United States. Filmed over the course of a year spanning retreats in rural Maine and Minnesota, protests, family milestones, a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision, and the collapse of gender-affirming care for youth, The Dads captures this national reckoning with remarkable intimacy through vérité footage and interviews with the film’s main protagonists. This is fatherhood as an act of […]
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Frameline50: Interview with Brydie O’Connor the director of “Barbara Forever”
Pioneering lesbian filmmaker, former San Franciscan, and Frameline Award winner Barbara Hammer takes center stage in Brydie O’Connor’s Teddy Award-winning debut feature. When Hammer came out as a lesbian in the ‘70s she “took off on a motorcycle with a super-8 camera,” leading to groundbreaking queer and experimental works like Dyketactics (1974) — one of the first-ever lesbian films — and, later, her celebrated first feature, Nitrate Kisses (1992). Throughout her monumental career, Hammer made over 90 moving-image works that often centered on her own life, body, and lovers — a monumental decision when such life-affirming, honest depictions of sapphic people were scarce. Bolstered by exquisitely edited archival […]
Frameline50: Interview with the Directors and Star of “Mickey and Richard”
Meet Mickey Squires, legendary porn star and notorious alter ego to Richard Bernstein. Diving into the colorful history of gay adult cinema, this intimate documentary portrait from directing duo Ryan A. White and A.P. Pickle (Raw! Uncut! Video!, Frameline45; Big Sur Gay Porn, Frameline47) traces Richard’s evolution from a lanky high school drama nerd to fantasy dream daddy Mickey, charting the joys and tribulations along the way. As Bernstein was catapulted into porn stardom, he had to navigate the spotlight as well as the dark shadow it cast. Grappling with the harsh dichotomy of his personas, Bernstein was confronted with isolation, the death of his partner, drug […]
