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Drag Race Fave to Perform Stevie Nicks Mini-Musical at Bucks

Fan favorite and RuPaul’s Drag Race season 5 queen Alaska Thunderf**k has chosen Labor Day Weekend in Guerneville to perform her new show Stevie Forever, a dragged-out, musical fairy tale from hell that tells the story of Stevie Nicks’ rise to rock goddess fame. It sounds pretty amazing: In Stevie Forever, RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist and cosmic starlet of stage and screen Alaska invites you to join her as she channels the grand high priestess of rock herself. Alaska will be joined by her stalwart companion and pianist Handsome Jeremy who becomes Stevie’s on-again-off-again love and lifetime musical partner Lindsay […]

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Burlesque Show at Buck’s Rivermill Dinner Theater Will Offer Sass, Class, and Dessert

Buck’s Rivermill Dinner Theater presents a feast for the senses with Burlesque at Buck’s, Friday, August 8. The monthly show features performers from Wine County Burlesque Troupe Cabaret de Caliente and visiting acts. Each ticket includes a glass of champagne and dessert. A raffle benefitting The Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will include gift certificates from Buck’s and tickets for Bubbly Burlesque and Shakespeare in The Cannery. Guests may increase their chances of winning by bringing packages of basic school supplies for The Sisters Pencil & Paper Project; 1 additional ticket per package of supplies. A wish list of […]

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Transgender Woman Says Immigration Detention Officials Told Her To Pretend Her Rape Was Consensual

  Marichuy Leal Gamino is a 23-year-old transgender woman who has spent more than a year living in an immigration detention facility, housed with men. Though she spent most of her life growing up in Arizona, she was born a Mexican citizen, making her an undocumented immigrant. After repeatedly experiencing harassment and threats of abuse, she says she was sexually assaulted last week by her cellmate. When she reported the abuse to the staff of the for-profit facility, they allegedly responded by asking her to sign a statement claiming that she had consented. A number of LGBT and immigrant rights […]

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Registry For Same-Sex Couples

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 2009 law that establishes a registry for same-sex couples, saying it does not violate an amendment to the state’s constitution banning gay marriage. The registry gives registered same-sex couples the right to hospital visits, family medical leave to care for a stricken partner, health benefits under a partner’s insurance and the right to inherit assets when a partner dies. The court said the ban on same-sex marriage did not include a ban on certain rights for same-sex couples. The gay marriage ban was approved by Wisconsin voters in 2006. Three years later, […]

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Registration Opens for Wildwood’s Fall Men’s Festival

  The Wildwood Conservation Foundation & Retreat Center will be hosting its 9th Annual Fall Men’s Festival Thursday, September 18 through Sunday, September 21, 2014. Wildwood, located in the hills above Guerneville, California, is a non-profit sanctuary created and sustained by gay men for healing, transformation and spiritual growth. “The intention of the Fall Men’s Festival is, first and foremost, to build community,” says Darrel Richey, Chairman of the board for the Wildwood Conservation Foundation. “It’s also a sampling of the type of men’s workshops we have throughout the year like yoga, massage, and erotic work.” This year’s activities include […]

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GLAAD’s 2014 Studio Responsibility Index Ranks LGBT Representation In Hollywood

  Seventeen major Hollywood movies may have included characters that identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) last year, but there’s still work to be done in terms of representing the community fairly and equally, a new report has found. With many of those 17 films limiting LGBT characters to minor roles or cameos, GLAAD’s 2014 Studio Responsibility Index also found that many of these portrayals were “outright defamatory” representations, pointing to movies like “Pain And Gain” and “Riddick,” officials said. The 17 films represented 16.7 percent out of 102 major Hollywood films released over the course of 2013. […]

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Obama Signs Executive Order On LGBT Job Discrimination

President Barack Obama on Monday signed an executive order banning workplace discrimination against millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees of federal contractors and the federal government. The executive order has two parts: It makes it illegal to fire or harass employees of federal contractors based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, and it explicitly bans discrimination against transgender employees of the federal government. The part targeting federal contractors affects 24,000 companies employing roughly 28 million workers, or about one-fifth of the nation’s workforce. “America’s federal contracts should not subsidize discrimination against the American people,” Obama said during […]

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Oklahoma’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled Oklahoma must allow gay couples to wed, marking the second time it has found the U.S. Constitution protects same-sex marriage. The decision from a three-judge panel in Denver upholds rulings that struck down Oklahoma’s gay marriage ban. The 2-1 ruling comes after the same panel ruled June 25 that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the Constitution. It was the first time an appellate court determined last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act means states cannot deny gays the ability to wed. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court […]

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A Forest Fire, A Motorcycle and a Wonder Woman Outfit – a Women’s Festival Comes Full Circle.

“Women’s Weekend”, the classic women’s music and comedy festival that has been happening in the Russian River area for over 27 years is being reinvented by it’s original founder. In September of 1986 Carmen McKay was a worker at the West Coast Women’s Music and Comedy Festival near Yosemite when a large forest fire broke out endangering the lives of the 150 workers setting up for the festival, and ultimately, cancelling the festival itself. Carmen donned a Wonder Woman outfit she happen to have with her, and led the woman out of danger on her motorcycle. She then diverted 600 […]

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Glenn Burke, Baseball’s Gay ‘Pioneer,’ To Be Honored By MLB

  It’s been 19 years since Glenn Burke died. But he’s finally receiving recognition for becoming the first former Major League Baseball player to come out as gay. Burke will be honored as a gay pioneer for the sport before the All-Star Game in Minneapolis on Tuesday, The New York Times reports. “He was a pioneer, and should be recognized,” Pat Courtney, an MLB spokesman told the publication. Burke, who got his start with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1976 before being traded to the Oakland A’s, became the first professional baseball player to come out, discussing his sexuality in […]

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