Issue 405
Ms. Behavior© Lonely Lesbian Pesters Gay Boys
Dear Ms. Behavior: My partner and I always have kept to ourselves, but now, we have this new neighbor who just moved in, and constantly shows up on the doorstep. Yvonne is a nice older woman, but lonely. She’s a lesbian whose girlfriend died eons ago, and she never found another one. It seems that…
Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus Begins 30th-Anniversary Season with Holiday Harmonies Concert
Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus (TCGMC) rings in its 30th season with its annual holiday concert in collaboration with Bells of the Lakes handbell choir under the direction of William H. Mathis. Holiday Harmonies: Ringing in the Season will be performed December 10-11, 8 PM, and December 12, 2 PM, at Ted Mann Concert Hall,…
Big Gay News
National News Iowa Senate Leader Vows to Block Gay-Marriage Debate Newly-reelected Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal said in November he would block any debate on a state constitutional amendment that would define marriage as only between a man and a woman. He stated, “As long as I’m leader, I do not intend to take…
Attorney Obtains Acquittal in Sex-Sting Case
Interview with Jeff Dean In an interview with Lavender, Minneapolis attorney Jeff Dean discussed the recent acquittal of his client caught up in a sex sting at Crosby Park in St. Paul.
NeverStraight.com Gives Back to GLBT Community
Based in the Twin Cities, recently-established NeverStraight.com is the GLBT community’s largest adult superstore, offering shoppers convenient online access to 18,000-plus products that can be shipped discreetly to them. As the NeverStraight.com website explains, “The term ‘straight,’ to us, has become synonymous with the hatred and injustice that are unbridled in our society today. That…
On the Townsend
Burn This Through Dec. 19 Gremlin Theatre 2400 University Ave., St. Paul (651) 228-7008 www.gremlin-theatre.org Lanford Wilson’s 1990 drama probes the mourning phase of friends and relatives left behind after the death of Robbie, a gay dancer. Wade Vaughn and Katie Gunzel play Robbie’s beloved roommates. Director Ellen Fenster explains, “We learn early on that…
The Page Boy
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy Jeff Sharlet Little, Brown and Company • $26.99 This follow-up to Jeff Sharlet’s The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (2008) makes a wonderful dystopian thriller. Unfortunately, it is nonfiction, an examination of the fundamentalist/political Fellowship whose center is located at the title’s…
Hear Voices
So many voices…no one can hide. Through TV, iPod, iPhone—even print—one hears them. “Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men” blares throughout the merchant realm, but the voices form a mixed chorus. Arkansas school board member Clint McCance urged all gay kids to “kill thereselves [sic].”
Queer As Folks
Executive Director Curt Prins Leaves District 202 After a Year District 202 announced the resignation and departure of Executive Director Curt Prins effective November 8. He had served in the position since 2009, during a year of major transition for the organization. District 202’s mission is to create safe spaces for GLBT youth and their…
Internal Branding and GLBT Pride
The concept of pride can take many forms for members of the GLBT community. Therefore, it may be helpful to put the idea of pride into a somewhat different context, allowing us to consider the notion from a new angle. A metaphor that expresses the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar can be useful for…
