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TLDEF to Honour Trailblazers at Annual Trans Advocacy Awards
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) will commemorate 16 years of service at the 2019 Trans Advocacy Awards, on Tuesday, June 11, at the Manhattan Penthouse in New York City from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
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Jon Campbell – «Francis»
«Francis» is the debut single from American singer songwriter and visual artist, Jon Campbell’s forthcoming LP «Sirens» out this September.
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«I’m From Driftwood» to Host 50-State Story
«I’m From Driftwood», the U.S online LGBTQ story archive, is gearing up for a 50-State Story Tour Exhibition in four U.S. cities during the month of May. The free events are part of a series of celebrations marking the organisation’s 10th anniversary. «I’m From Driftwood» has spent the last decade producing, curating, and publishing first-person stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people of all backgrounds.
Photo credit Daddy Alan Selby (right), aka Mr. S, and his boy, Johnie Garcia, at the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights (1993); photographer unidentified; collection of the GLBT Historical Society.
Multimedia Exhibition Highlights San Francisco Leather Pioneer, Mr. S Leather Founder «Daddy» Alan Selby
A new exhibition opening May 16 at the GLBT Historical Society Museum recounts the story of «Daddy» Alan Selby, the founder of the iconic South of Market leather and kink emporium Mr. S Leather, within the context of a changing SoMa neighbourhood and the emergence of a distinct leather and kink culture.
Photo credit Photo By Kurt Löwenstein Educational Center International Team from Germany (ws'08 (5)) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Catholic School in Kansas Faces a Revolt for Denying a Same-Sex Couple’s Child
A Catholic school in Kansas is facing pressure to reverse its decision not to enrol a child with married same-sex parents.
Photo credit Melissa Hawkins, Duo With Cigar, The Eagle (undated); used with permission.
Photography Exhibition Highlights 1980s-1990s Queer Nightlife in SF
A new exhibition opening February 15 at the GLBT Historical Society Museum highlights the extraordinary vitality of queer nightlife in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) district during the darkest years of the AIDS crisis, an era that simultaneously marked the peak of AIDS activism and queer militant organising in the city.