Willis was inducted last year into the Songwriters Hall of Fame for her decades of work crafting songs that stretched from pop and rock to R&B and soul and were recorded by myriad artists also including Ray Charles, Sister Sledge, Bonnie Raitt, Bryan Adams and Pet Shop Boys. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-12-26/allee-willis-obituary-friends-remember-songwriter
Category: Popular Culture
Gay Comic Artist Howard Cruse, Creator of ‘Wendel,’ Dies at 75
Acclaimed gay cartoonist Howard Cruse, whose strip “Wendel” graced the pages of The Advocatein the 1980s, died of cancer November 26 in North Adams, Mass., surrounded by friends and family, his daughter, Kimberly Kolze Venter, announced on Facebook. He was 75. https://www.advocate.com/people/2019/12/03/gay-comic-artist-howard-cruse-creator-wendel-dies-75
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 […]
Happy December everyone!!
With the holiday season upon us it’s time for RAINBOW gift giving and sharing. We have found some fun places to shop this month while supporting the LGBTQ community. There is a link to a list put out by HuffPost on the best places to purchase LGBTQ owned product lines as well as a link […]
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 […]
Long Beach Library named after Billie Jean King
This is a bit of older news, but worth mentioning. The city of Long Beach California opened a new downtown library and named it after Long Beach native, tennis player, and avid reader and community activist Billie Jean King. https://www.presstelegram.com/2019/09/21/long-beach-makes-it-official-its-the-billie-jean-king-main-library-now/
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 … […]
obituary for Henri Belolo, co-founder of The Village People
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/14/henri-belolo-obituary The record producer and label boss Henri Belolo, who has died aged 82, helped define the “Eurodisco” genre of the later disco era in the second half of the 1970s.
Hashtag Queer LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology Vol. 3
Kalmus, Sage (ed.) Hashtag Queer LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology Vol. 3. Qommunicate Publishing. 2019. $16.99. 230p. PB. ISBN 978-1-946952-25-7 The third volume of Hashtag Queer delivers fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and scripts written by and/or about LGBTQ+ people and their lives. This anthology includes stories focused on different queer identities, the connection between different generations of queer […]
Rose Green, Los Angeles activist and founder of California AIDS ride died on July 11, 2019 in Duarte, CA
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-rose-greene-lgbtq-dead-20190715-story.html