Recent piece focusing on some LGBTQ zines and their creators: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/in-zines-lgbtq-creators-find-a-place-to-tell-their-own-stories
LGBTQ zines telling stories
Category: Media of note
Pulitzer Prize news
Two LGBTQ writers have won Pulitzer Prizes this year. Michael R. Jackson‘s musical A Strange Loop won the drama prize and Jericho Brown won the poetry prize for the collection The Tradition. https://www.them.us/story/2-black-queer-writers-awarded-2020-pulitzer-prizes
Bedazzlers: The Cockettes in Print: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy 1969-1972
With genderfuck high drag spontaneity and an abundance of glitter as their bottom line, the members of this ever-expanding assemblage of lavender post-hippiedom somehow managed to find each other in the Haight. https://www.ebar.com/arts_&culture/books//290687/bedazzlers:_the_cockettes_in_print:_acid_drag&_sexual_anarchy_1969-1972
Most Libraries Are Closed
Some Librarians Still Have to Go In. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/arts/library-workers-us-coronavirus.html
Lambda Literary announces finalists for 2020 Lambda Literary Awards
Finalists will be celebrated and winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang the evening of Monday, June 8, 2020 in New York City. https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/
Cooking at the intersection of food and Queer Culture
The end of the year often finds many of us cooking and sharing food. If you are interested in the intersection of food and queer culture, check out these two journals. Jarry “celebrates the meeting of food and queer culture,” according to a piece in the New York Times. Founded in 2015 by Lukas Volger […]
Ersi Sotiropoulos’s What’s Left of the Night wins translation award
At its annual conference in Rochester, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) named its National Translation Award winners for 2019, as the United States market’s “only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.” Translater Emmerich […]
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PROPOSES RULE CHANGE ALLOWING ADOPTION AGENCIES TO BLOCK LGBT FAMILIES
The ACLU is suing the Trump administration to block a proposed Health and Human Services rule that would allow “tax-funded adoption agencies to reject prospective parents on faith-based grounds” which would disproportionally impact LGBTQ+ people wanting to adopt. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-proposes-rule-change-allowing-adoption-agencies-block-lgbt-families-1469339
Puerto Rican Astrologer Walter Mercado Dies at 87
Walter Mercado was known and loved in the US and Latin America for his astrology readings and predictions. He first became well known in Puerto Rico as an actor and dancer and moved to South Florida in the early 1990s. There, he joined Univision and began a new career with new fame, delivering horoscopes, always […]
The Basic Ball
For all you POSE fans out there, check out this parody from A Black Lady Sketch Show. A Ball for the rest of the LGBTQT’s! “Whether you’re Mother Exhausted from the House of Tired, or one of the Eternal Children from the House of Forever 21, y’all better bring it! The first category is … […]