It’s a bold proclamation to claim the first Saturday in December for your annual holiday party, but George Soule and Lisa McDonald have done just that for the past 22 years. This is more than […]
Socially Savvy: Lisa McDonald and George Soule – Holiday Entertaining on a Grand Scale
December 15, 2011 by Sean Ryan and Edward Piechowski
A Word in Edgewise: License to Bully?
December 15, 2011 by E.B. Boatner
Although Michigan toned down its recent hateful anti-bullying bill and passed a saner, more moderate version, the whole episode can still stand as a model of what to expect from bigots; tenacity, disingenuousness, and downright skullduggery. Into the […]
From the Editor: Person of the Year
December 15, 2011 by Andy Lien
We have multiple people within the issue who have done amazing things this past year: Stephan who outlived homelessness in Justin Jones’s piece; the politicians and organizations who spoke out against the atrocities in Uganda […]
Glimpses: 432
December 15, 2011 by Andy Lien
A Queer and Trans People of Color Gathering to Support our Liberation and Self Determination PFund Foundation, the only Minnesota foundation dedicated exclusively to LGBT equality, and the Astraea Foundation for Justice, a national LGBT […]
Ms. Behavior: Horny Lesbians and Hostessing for the Mostessing
December 15, 2011 by Ms. Behavior® by Meryl Cohn
Dear Ms. Behavior: When I told my longtime lesbian friend Jodi that I’m bi-curious, she invited me to come with her to a bar. It was an eye-opening experience. I like attention, but women were […]
Uganda: An Overview of How White American Evangelicals and Enriched Ugandan Politicians Target Lesbians and Gays
December 15, 2011 by John Townsend
Local Motion and Inertia Regarding the Crusade against Uganda’s Gays & Lesbians Part 2 in Lavender‘s Uganda series Wingspan Ministry of St. Paul-Reformation Church has endeavored to make the public aware of the mass hysteria fomented […]
Dateland: The Buffer
December 15, 2011 by Jennifer Parello
Hollywood produces many big-budget movies about superheroes. These generally focus on men who have been bitten by radioactive spiders; or deeply misunderstood men with troubled pasts and a taste for vengeance; or male robots who […]
Arts Spotlight: Performing Arts 2011 Year in Review
December 15, 2011 by John Townsend
Performing Arts Events of the Year The Opening of the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts & The Center of the Margins Festival of Plays About Disability, Mixed Blood Theatre Best Theatrical Productions 1. […]
Big Gay News
December 15, 2011 by Bradley Traynor
Democratic Rep. Barney Frank Announces Retirement The Associated Press reports that Dem. Rep. Barney Frank, the first voluntarily openly gay member of Congress has announced he will retire at the end of his current term; […]
Off the Record: James Rocco, Rocker
December 15, 2011 by Ed Huyck
Most people in the local arts community know James Rocco as a producing artistic director at the Ordway Center, where he has had a hand in many of the recent original productions at the St. […]
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