Arts & Entertainment

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From ‘Schitt’s Creek’ to ‘Batwoman,’ LGBTQ Characters on U.S. TV Are at an All-time High

For the fourth consecutive year, broadcast television has featured a record percentage of LGBTQ characters, according to a report released Thursday by the media advocacy group GLAAD. Last year, GLAAD called on the broadcast networks to have 10 percent of its regular characters on prime-time scripted series identify as LGBTQ by 2020. According to its 2019-20 “Where We Are on TV” report, the networks more than exceeded that goal. Of the 879 regular characters scheduled to appear this season, 90, or 10.2 percent, are LGBTQ. This is the highest percentage GLAAD has found in the 15 years it has kept […]

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Book Review: All the Bad Apples’ By Moïra Fowley-Doyle

I read this book in two sittings–over a forgotten, rapidly cooling latte and later, on a boat in the Green River in eastern Utah, so engrossed that I barely noticed the red cliffs. This novel will sink its teeth into you and you won’t want it to let go. Denna, the protagonist of All the Bad Apples, comes from a very uptight, controlling Irish family that doesn’t take kindly to any abnormalities. Rumors have started floating around Deena’s Dublin high school that she’s a lesbian (the real trouble is that the rumors are absolutely true). On Deena’s seventeenth birthday, her older […]

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Marley’s Ghost at Occidental Center for the Arts

Thursday, November 14 @ 7:30 pm. Marley’s Ghost at Occidental Center for the Arts!  Marley’s Ghost is nothing less than a national treasure, the capable inheritors of the archetypal Americana blueprint drawn up by The Band. An eclectic aggregation composed of singer/multi-instrumentalists Dan Wheetman, Jon Wilcox, Mike Phelan, Ed Littlefield Jr., Jerry Fletcher, and Bob Nichols, the band can sing and play anything with spot-on feel, from roots to rock, blues to bluegrass, gospel to stone country, to the ongoing delight of a fervent cult that includes many of their fellow musicians throughout their first quarter century as a working unit.Their trademark multi-part harmonies never […]

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Sonoma Author Presets Book at Occidental Center for the Arts

Friday, November 15th, 7-9 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts’ Book Launch Series. Ashes in A Coconut,gripping debut novel by Sonoma author, Bo Kearns. Presentation with selected readings, slide show of Bali, Q&A, book sales/signing. Free admission, all donations gratefully accepted.  Indonesian treats by donation, beer/wine for sale. OCA: 3850 Doris Murphy Court, Bohemian Hwy at Graton Rd. and is accessible to people with disabilities. For more info: 707-874-9392 or occidentalcenterforthearts.org

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16 Must-read Books for LGBTQ History Month 2019

This year not only marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, but the 25th anniversary of LGBTQ History Month. Founded by a Missouri high school history teacher in 1994, the month of October was chosen as a time to reflect on the changemakers who fought for equality—which is especially relevant when LGBTQ-inclusive books can be frequently challenged or even banned. In honor of this annual celebration, here are 16 books to help understand the important historical moments that have informed the modern LGBTQ rights movement. 1. “The Gay Revolution” by Lillian Faderman The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle$15.99$21.00AMAZON$17.89$21.00TARGET$18.90$21.00BARNES AND NOBLE A thorough […]

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Book Review: ‘Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes from Past & Present’

In the past, LGBTQ+ kids were forced to discover heroes where ever they could find them. A friend of mine shared that he’d had a crush on Astro Boy, and it’s easy to see why other fictional characters like Peppermint Patty and Harriet the Spy became role models, when most real celebrities were closeted, or presented to kids, as straight. For decades, biographies written for young people tiptoed around issues of gender and sexual preference, lauding folks like Walt Whitman, Tchaikovsky, Michelangelo and Virginia Woolf, but sharing their accomplishments as if they were just part of one straight, cultural legacy. […]

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The Quitters: Glenn Houston & Stevie Coyle to Perform at Occidental Center for the Arts

Sunday October 27 @ 4 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts presents The Quitters: Glenn Houston & Stevie Coyle. Don’t miss this iconic Americana acoustic/electric guitar picking twosome (The Waybacks, Hearts On Fire, Houston Jones),who are perennial Strawberry Music Festival favorites, at our acoustic sweet spot! $20 Adv/$25 at door. Fine refreshments; Wheelchair accessible; Art Gallery open. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental CA. 95465. 707-874-9392 Glenn Houston and Stevie Coyle: The Quitters

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Halloween Bash with Music be the Thugz at Occidental Center for the Arts

Thursday October 31 @ 7:30 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts presents Halloween Bash with the Thugz!! A fun-filled evening of dancing and frolicking awaits you when West County favorites The Thugz (Tribal Hippie Underground Zone) – long-time purveyors of cosmic Americana and old-time psychedelic music – bring their positive vibes and communal spirit, original songs and cosmic jams to a first time ever Halloween Bash at OCA! There will be a $250 cash prize for Best Halloween costume! $15 Adv/$18 at the door. OCA is wheelchair accessible. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465.

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Film Review: ‘HAM : A Musical Memoir’

The singer and Tony nominated Broadway actor Sam Harris wrote a memoir, which he parlayed into a one man stage show picking  up Ovation Awards in LA, and now its a full blooded film.   Most people know of Harris from when he won TV’s first ever talent show Star Search back in 1987 but Ham A Musical Memoir  starts way before then when he was growing up as gay boy in Oklahoma’s bible belt.  His story is full of ups and downs,, with more of the latter as anybody who also had to hide their sexuality for a very long time will know all to well. […]

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Nico Tortorella on Writing, Queer Legacies and Social Media

What are the best ways to navigate feelings of debilitating shame? Providing ferociously, self-reflective takes on their uneasy relationship with fame, family, drug use, and romantic partnerships, Nico Tortorella’s new memoir Space Between unpacks personal stigma, all in the hopes of dispelling it, both for themselves and others in the LGTBQIA+ community. With a striking frankness, the book details Tortorella’s unconventional marriage, complex romantic relationships, and their journey towards living a life outside the gender binary. A noted performer on the TV show Younger and the lead in a forthcoming Walking Dead spin-off, Tortorella is also a staunch advocate on issues pertaining to multidimensional desire and sexual […]

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