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PR17_Cover_v01b 2.indd 1 5/25/17 6:28 PM What is TRUVADA for PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis)? u You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or serious liver problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been TRUVADA is a prescription medicine that can be used for PrEP to help taking TRUVADA for a long time. In some cases, these serious reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 infection when used together with safer conditions have led to death. Call your healthcare provider right away sex practices. This use is only for adults who are at high risk of getting if you have any symptoms of these conditions. HIV-1 through sex. This includes HIV-negative men who have sex with HIV-1 through sex. This includes HIV-negative men who have sex with u Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection.If you also have HBV and men and who are at high risk of getting infected with HIV-1 through sex, Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection.If you also have HBV and and male-female sex partners when one partner has HIV-1 infection take TRUVADA, your hepatitis may become worse if you stop taking and male-female sex partners when one partner has HIV-1 infection TRUVADA. Do not stop taking TRUVADA without fi rst talking to your and the other does not. TRUVADA. Do not stop taking TRUVADA without fi rst talking to your healthcare provider. If your healthcare provider tells you to stop taking Ask your healthcare provider if you have questions about how to TRUVADA, they will need to watch you closely for several months to prevent getting HIV-1. Always practice safer sex and use condoms monitor your health. TRUVADA is not approved for the treatment of HBV. to lower the chance of sexual contact with bodybody ffluids. Never reuse or share needles or other items that have body fluids on them. Who should not take TRUVADA for PrEP? IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you already have HIV-1 infection or if you do not know your HIV-1 status. What is the most important information I should know If you are HIV-1 positive, you need to take other about TRUVADA for PrEP? medicines with TRUVADA to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete Before taking TRUVADA for PrEP to reduce your risk of getting treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 HIV-1 infection: and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may u You must be HIV-negative. You must get tested to make sure that become harder to treat over time. you do not already have HIV-1 infection. Do not take TRUVADA for Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you also take PrEP to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are confi rmed to lamivudine (Epivir-HBV) or adefovir (HEPSERA). be HIV-negative. u Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in a person who has What are the other possible side effects of TRUVADA for PrEP? recently become infected. If you have flu-like symptoms, you could Serious side effects of TRUVADA may also include: have recently become infected with HIV-1. Tell your healthcare provider have recently become infected with HIV-1. Tell your healthcare provider u Kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your healthcare provider if you had a flu-like illness within the last month before starting may do blood tests to check your kidneys before and during treatment TRUVADA for PrEP or at any time while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. may do blood tests to check your kidneys before and during treatment TRUVADA for PrEP or at any time while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. with TRUVADA for PrEP. If you develop kidney problems, your healthcare Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include tiredness, fever, joint or provider may tell you to stop taking TRUVADA for PrEP. muscle aches, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night provider may tell you to stop taking TRUVADA for PrEP. muscle aches, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night u sweats, and/or enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or groin. u Bone problems, including bone pain or bones getting soft or thin, may lead to fractures. Your healthcare provider may do tests to check your bones. While taking TRUVADA for PrEP to reduce your risk of getting While taking TRUVADA for PrEP to reduce your risk of getting u Changes in body fat,wh ich can happen in people taking TRUVADA or HIV-1 infection: Changes in body fat,wh ich can happen in people taking TRUVADA or HIV-1 infection: medicines like TRUVADA. u You must continue using safer sex practices. Just taking TRUVADA You must continue using safer sex practices. Just taking TRUVADA Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA for PrEP are stomach- for PrEP may not keep you from getting HIV-1. area (abdomen) pain, headache, and decreased weight. Tell your hea lthcare u area (abdomen) pain, headache, and decreased weight. Tell your hea lthcare u You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP. provider if you have any side effects that bother you or do not go away. u To further help reduce your risk of getting HIV-1:

• Know your HIV-1 status and the HIV-1 status of your partners. What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking • Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months or when your healthcare TRUVADA for PrEP? ™? provider tells you. u All your health problems. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider if you • Get tested for other sexually transmitted infections. Other infections have or have had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis make it easier for HIV-1 to infect you. virus infection. • Get information and support to help reduce risky sexual behavior. u If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant It. is not known if TRUVADA can harm your unborn baby. If you become pregnant while • Have fewer sex partners. TRUVADA can harm your unborn baby. If you become pregnant while taking TRUVADA for PrEP, talk to your healthcare provider to decide if • Do not miss any doses of TRUVADA. Missing doses may increase you should keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP. • your risk of getting HIV-1 infection. Pregnancy Registry: A pregnancy registry collects information about • If you think you were exposed to HIV-1, tell your healthcare provider your health and the health of your baby. There is a pregnancy registry right away. for women who take medicines to prevent HIV-1 during pregnancy. u If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than For more information about the registry and how it works, talk to your • TRUVADA alone to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete healthcare provider. treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your u If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time. breastfeed. The medicines in TRUVADA can pass to your baby in TRUVADA can cause serious side effects: breast milk. If you become HIV-1 positive, HIV-1 can be passed to the babybaby in breast milk. u Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a u serious medical emergency. Symptoms of lactic acidosis include u All the medicines you take,inclu ding prescription and over-the-counter weakness or being more tired than usual, unusual muscle pain, being medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. TRUVADA may interact short of breath or fast breathing, nausea, vomiting, stomach-area with other medicines. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to your pain, cold or blue hands and feet, feeling dizzy or lightheaded, and/or hheaealthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. fast or abnormal heartbeats. u If you take certain other medicines with TRUVADA for PrEP, your u Serious liver problems. Your liver may become large and tender, healthcare provider may need to check you more often or change your and you may develop fat in your liver. Symptoms of liver problems dose. These medicines include ledipasvir with sofosbuvir (HARVONI). include your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow, dark You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs “tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools, loss of appetite for several to the FDA. Visit www.FDA.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. days or longer, nausea, and/or stomach-area pain.

Please see Important Facts about TRUVADA for PrEP including important warnings on the following page.

TVDC0083_A_8x10-5_PrideLife_p1.indd 1-2 4/28/17 9:39 AM What is TRUVADA for PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis)? u You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or serious liver problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been TRUVADA is a prescription medicine that can be used for PrEP to help taking TRUVADA for a long time. In some cases, these serious reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 infection when used together with safer conditions have led to death. Call your healthcare provider right away sex practices. This use is only for adults who are at high risk of getting if you have any symptoms of these conditions. HIV-1 through sex. This includes HIV-negative men who have sex with u men and who are at high risk of getting infected with HIV-1 through sex, Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection.If you also have HBV and and male-female sex partners when one partner has HIV-1 infection take TRUVADA, your hepatitis may become worse if you stop taking and the other does not. TRUVADA. Do not stop taking TRUVADA without ﬁ rst talking to your healthcare provider. If your healthcare provider tells you to stop taking Ask your healthcare provider if you have questions about how to TRUVADA, they will need to watch you closely for several months to prevent getting HIV-1. Always practice safer sex and use condoms monitor your health. TRUVADA is not approved for the treatment of HBV. to lower the chance of sexual contact with body fluids. Never reuse or share needles or other items that have body fluids on them. Who should not take TRUVADA for PrEP? IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you already have HIV-1 infection or if you do not know your HIV-1 status. What is the most important information I should know If you are HIV-1 positive, you need to take other about TRUVADA for PrEP? medicines with TRUVADA to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete Before taking TRUVADA for PrEP to reduce your risk of getting treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 HIV-1 infection: and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may u You must be HIV-negative. You must get tested to make sure that become harder to treat over time. you do not already have HIV-1 infection. Do not take TRUVADA for Do not take TRUVADA for PrEP if you also take PrEP to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 unless you are conﬁ rmed to lamivudine (Epivir-HBV) or adefovir (HEPSERA). be HIV-negative. u Many HIV-1 tests can miss HIV-1 infection in a person who has What are the other possible side effects of TRUVADA for PrEP? recently become infected. If you have flu-like symptoms, you could Serious side effects of TRUVADA may also include: have recently become infected with HIV-1. Tell your healthcare provider u Kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your healthcare provider if you had a flu-like illness within the last month before starting may do blood tests to check your kidneys before and during treatment TRUVADA for PrEP or at any time while taking TRUVADA for PrEP. with TRUVADA for PrEP. If you develop kidney problems, your healthcare Symptoms of new HIV-1 infection include tiredness, fever, joint or provider may tell you to stop taking TRUVADA for PrEP. muscle aches, headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, night sweats, and/or enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or groin. u Bone problems, including bone pain or bones getting soft or thin, may lead to fractures. Your healthcare provider may do tests to check your bones. While taking TRUVADA for PrEP to reduce your risk of getting u Changes in body fat,wh ich can happen in people taking TRUVADA or HIV-1 infection: medicines like TRUVADA. u You must continue using safer sex practices. Just taking TRUVADA Common side effects in people taking TRUVADA for PrEP are stomach- for PrEP may not keep you from getting HIV-1. area (abdomen) pain, headache, and decreased weight. Tell your hea lthcare u You must stay HIV-negative to keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP. provider if you have any side effects that bother you or do not go away. u To further help reduce your risk of getting HIV-1:

• Know your HIV-1 status and the HIV-1 status of your partners. What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking • Get tested for HIV-1 at least every 3 months or when your healthcare TRUVADA for PrEP? provider tells you. u All your health problems. Be sure to tell your healthcare provider if you • Get tested for other sexually transmitted infections. Other infections have or have had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis make it easier for HIV-1 to infect you. virus infection. • Get information and support to help reduce risky sexual behavior. u If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant It. is not known if • Have fewer sex partners. TRUVADA can harm your unborn baby. If you become pregnant while taking TRUVADA for PrEP, talk to your healthcare provider to decide if • Do not miss any doses of TRUVADA. Missing doses may increase you should keep taking TRUVADA for PrEP. your risk of getting HIV-1 infection. Pregnancy Registry: A pregnancy registry collects information about • If you think you were exposed to HIV-1, tell your healthcare provider your health and the health of your baby. There is a pregnancy registry right away. for women who take medicines to prevent HIV-1 during pregnancy. u If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than For more information about the registry and how it works, talk to your TRUVADA alone to treat HIV-1. TRUVADA by itself is not a complete healthcare provider. treatment for HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your u If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time. breastfeed. The medicines in TRUVADA can pass to your baby in TRUVADA can cause serious side effects: breast milk. If you become HIV-1 positive, HIV-1 can be passed to the baby in breast milk. u Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious medical emergency. Symptoms of lactic acidosis include u All the medicines you take,inclu ding prescription and over-the-counter weakness or being more tired than usual, unusual muscle pain, being medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. TRUVADA may interact short of breath or fast breathing, nausea, vomiting, stomach-area with other medicines. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to your pain, cold or blue hands and feet, feeling dizzy or lightheaded, and/or healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. fast or abnormal heartbeats. u If you take certain other medicines with TRUVADA for PrEP, your u Serious liver problems. Your liver may become large and tender, healthcare provider may need to check you more often or change your and you may develop fat in your liver. Symptoms of liver problems dose. These medicines include ledipasvir with sofosbuvir (HARVONI). include your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow, dark You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs “tea-colored” urine, light-colored stools, loss of appetite for several to the FDA. Visit www.FDA.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. days or longer, nausea, and/or stomach-area pain.

Please see Important Facts about TRUVADA for PrEP including important warnings on the following page.

TVDC0083_A_8x10-5_PrideLife_p1.indd 1-2 4/28/17 9:39 AM 9 Somebody Loves Her Meet Betty Who—pop star, songwriter, and matchmaker extraordinaire. 12 9 12 The Pride List Four things we love this summer. 14 Now Playing Must-see classics selected by four of the men and women behind some of the country’s biggest LGBT film festivals. 15 What Inspires Me Sense8 star Miguel Ángel Silvestre on kissing his TV boyfriend in front of millions and working with the always brilliant Wachowskis.

21 15 19 The Library Is Open 20 Put your sass skills to the test by pairing classic putdowns with the LGBT icons who cracked them. 20 Pixel Pride Marching for our rights spreads to the online gaming community. 21 Binge & Splurge Three watercooler-worthy summer series and the cult classics that undoubtedly inspired their tales. 24 22 Three Truths and a Lie 32 How well do you know hard- rocking legend Melissa Etheridge? 23 Your Summer Reading List Seven must-reads selected by the staff of Lambda Literary. 24 6 Reasons We Love... Kelly Osbourne. Fashion icon. Reality TV star. And all around ally.

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2017 | @ pridelife / Pridelifemagazine 3 50 26 50 Bye, George Remembering Pulse Six months after the death of Looking back on the tragic Pulse nightclub massacre, one year later. SHOULD HIV PREVENTION George Michael, we take a look back at his remarkable career. 52 28 Not Stumped MATTER TO ME? Pride Week Essentials By Trump Everything you need to survive LGBT activism goes back to its from sun-up to sun-down—and grassroots—with a new vengeance. late into the night. 58 29 The Man Who Ego Has Landed Would Be Queen Step into the sexy, vibrantly colored With his rockstar good looks and a 52 58 home of up-and-coming British voice that thrills, it’s safe to say one pop artist Ego Rodriguez. thing about Adam Lambert—he I AM I AM will definitely rock you. 30 Drink Up 64 LIVING WITH HIV. HIV NEGATIVE. Unwind and relax with these four History Unfiltered icy whisky cocktails. Celebrating the iconic images of photographer Daniel Nicoletta. 32 In the Kitchen with 72 Melissa King Germany’s Rainbow One-on-one with the San Asylum Francisco-based Top Chef alum. Berlin’s first LGBT shelter offers safe housing for refugees fleeing ISIS, homophobia—and now, 34 64 neo-Nazis. Lausanne Life Discovering the laid-back and 76 funky shores of Lake Geneva. YES! For Us, By Us 36 Six artists on the verge, united PREVENTION MATTERS. through the power of mentorship. The Future of HIV Treatment 78 How injectable drugs are changing the face of modern HIV treatment. The Pox Lover An exclusive excerpt from author See how we can all help stop the virus in our bodies 41 and activist Anne-christine d’Adesky’s new memoir. and communities. Talk to a healthcare provider. An Essential Engagement 83 And find out more atHelpStopTheVirus.com Turning cold HIV research data into emotional, immersive, and InterPride 83 transformative theater. Our all-in-one calendar of upcoming Pride events, a look at Pride around the world, plus 44 previewing WorldPride 2017. Come Out and Play Meet the man changing the way 96 we play sports today. What Pride 46 Means to Me Parting words from the Daddy Issues legendary actress and comic One man’s search for fatherhood. Lea DeLaria. UNBC4027 04/16 UNBC4027

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From the personalities to the politics to the pop culture milestones, here’s everything you need to know for the best Pride ever Somebody Loves Her (hint: it’s us...)

Meet Betty Who—pop star, songwriter, and matchmaker extraordinaire

oogle your favorite musician and Gone or two fan proposals involv- ing the star might pop up on YouTube, especially if they’ve had a long and storied career. Australian singer Betty Who can rack up that many proposals at her shows in a month—maybe less. Check out the video of the couple proposing in the middle of her show at Brighton Music Hall in Boston. Or the couple popping the question at the 9:30 Club in D.C. Or the most viral of all, the couple using her song for a Home Depot flash mob proposal (it’s closing in on 14 million views). And that’s just the first page of videos likely to turn up. Best of all, the Betty Who marriage proposal phenomenon is a predominantly same-sex affair, with almost all the proposals linked to her hit

BEN COPE song “Somebody Loves You.”

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From the personalities to the politics to the pop culture milestones, here’s everything you need to know for the best Pride ever Somebody Loves Her (hint: it’s us...)

Meet Betty Who—pop star, songwriter, and matchmaker extraordinaire

BEN COPE song “Somebody Loves You.”

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At a recent show at Webster was like, ‘Of course this is hap- Hall in NYC, Betty added to her pening.’ These are the amazing tally with another surprise pro- people I want supporting me, posal at the start of her encore. and they’re the individuals I The crowd loved it—cheering, want to support back.” tearing up (Betty included), and dancing in pure joy as the scene Her work as an ally for the unfolded on the stage. community... PrideLife caught up with the “I think anybody who has a Aussie singer a couple of weeks platform that they can use, before that show to get her take should use it—for good as on her new album, her summer opposed to evil. I’ve always felt tour, and her role in bringing that the second I had a platform together so many LGBT fans— to speak on, on behalf of any- both at her concerts and at thing, I would. And I’ve always the alter. believed in equal rights not only for the LGBT community, but Betty’s take on her second for everybody.” album, The Valley... “My first record was kind of an All those marriage proposals... experiment, and I didn’t really “I cry at weddings. I cry all the know if it would take. With Performing at Pride... time, period. I’m like that crazy this record I know what I’m “Those shows are always the bitch in the back of the church doing and know this is what I’ve ones that go by the fastest. with mascara running down always wanted to do, you know I think it’s because they’re my face when people are saying what I mean? The songs are all always so fun. The organizers their vows. So there’s something very personal—sometimes a are always the most fantastic, to me that is almost unfair little too personal—where I’m wonderful, love-filled people about people always asking if like, ‘Wow, I really said that, and the events are such power- they can propose on stage at my huh?’ But that’s definitely the ful, fabulous things to be a part shows. [Laughs] But I always say way I’ve always been, and I of. I feel like I’ve played 10,000 yes because I’m like, ‘This is the think it’s the kind of artist I am Pride festivals in the last four most amazing thing ever!’ But as well.” years and I am so happy just then I’m on stage and I end up being a part of each of them.” a sobbing mess. It’s like ‘Guys, Her Party in the Valley tour you can’t keep doing this to (which runs all summer)... Becoming a gay diva... me.’ [Laughs] “Being on the road has been a “I literally have no idea how it But a big part of me is also bunch of different things for me. happened. People ask me this a about finding the person that It’s been both the most reward- lot. They’re like, ‘You have such Essential Who you love and that you want ing and also the scariest and a big LGBT following. How did Crew listening: to spend your life with and most hectic and draining thing that happen?’ And I’m like, ‘I Betty’s first shouting it from the rooftops. that I’ve ever done. But I find a literally don’t know.’ [Laughs] I two albums plus Joking aside, I love it. Nothing her latest sin- different love for it every time showed up at my first New York makes me happier than meeting gle, “Some Kinda I do it. And to me, the reason I show ever and it was in a tiny Wonderful.” someone and hearing them say do what I do is to be in a room room that held like 75 people ‘Hey, I’m bringing my boyfriend with people performing. That’s and of those 75, 70 were gay to your show and we love your what I love the most. It doesn’t men. And I was like, ‘What’s music and I want to propose to even matter if they’re singing happening? How is this …’ And him with you.’ It’s like, ‘Are you back or not. I don’t really care ever since then, it’s just been kidding? I’m a part of your story why or how you ended up here. I that way. But you know, to have enough that you want to do just want to try and connect and the LGBT community be so sup- that? Then, hell yeah! Nothing share a moment with you.” portive of me so immediately, I would make me happier.’ ”

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GILBERT BAKER As you step out this Pride, whether it’s a small town or a sprawling city, take a minute to celebrate the one and only The Pride List Gilbert Baker. Don’t know his name? His influence is likely all around you. Four essentials to read about, listen to, watch, and celebrate over This remarkable artist and activist— the summer months. who passed away in March at the age of 65—was the creater of our rainbow flag, a lasting symbol of unity that will AMANDA LEPORE forever define our movement. She's been the reigning queen of New York City nightlife for more than three decades. Now, in her first book—Doll Parts (Regan Arts)—the walking work of art known as Amanda Lepore celebrates her transformative beauty and one-of-a-kind style with shots from photographers including Terry Richardson and Pierre et Gilles.

BLEACHERS Rock music doesn’t get poppier—or better—than on Gone Now, the new album by New Jersey–native Jack Antonoff. When he’s not busy touring with his band or writing songs with Lorde or Sia, Jack is a staunch and vocal ally to the community, working closely with The Ally Coalition, asking fans to volunteer to promote trans equality, and speaking out regularly for equality. And his music? It kicks ass!

TOM OF FINLAND Inspired by the life of artist Touko Laaksonen and his iconic homoerotic drawings, this biopic directed by Dome Karukoski tells the backstory of Tom’s art—his time serving as a closeted solider in WWII followed by his sexual revolution upon finally moving to L.A. and being able to openly

COLOR IMAGES: VIJATMOHINDRA | BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE: MARCO OVANDO | BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE: MARCO OVANDO COLOR IMAGES: VIJATMOHINDRA COLOR IMAGES: VIJATMOHINDRA PICTURES PICTURES | TOM OF FINLAND: PROTAGONIST | TOM OF FINLAND: PROTAGONIST BLEACHERS: PHOTO BY DANIEL SILBERT BLEACHERS: PHOTO BY DANIEL SILBERT embrace his sexuality.

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11 DESERT HEARTS LGBT experience in the Selected by Sheryl Santacruz, African-American community. programming coordinator for What WEEKEND 22 L.A.’s OutFest Selected by Andrew Peterson, “Made in the 1980s and set during the director of programming for the 1950s, Desert Hearts is a landmark Inspires Provincetown Int’l Film Festival film for its positive portrayal of a 33 romance between two queer women. “Directed by Andrew Haigh who Spoiler alert: Not only does no one end went on to direct HBO’s short-lived Me up dead, the female characterization series Looking, 2011’s Weekend is 44 is nuanced and complex, their a must-see story about the search Spanish actor Miguel Ángel Silvestre, relationship feels authentic, and the for love in the modern age. On a star of the NetFlix series Sense8, bedroom scenes are so hot they nearly night out after a drunken party with reflects on season 2 of his hit series, 5 fog the camera’s lens. This touchstone his straight friends, Russell (played 5 kissing his TV boyfriend in-front of film was many women’s first encounter by Tom Cullen) heads out to a gay millions, and working with the always of a lesbian relationship, and for that club, alone and on the prowl. What’s brilliant Lana and Lilly Wachowski. reason alone it will be beloved for expected to be a one-night stand 66 many years to come.” slowly becomes an intimately eventful The plot of Sense8 weekend spent with Glen (Chris New), PARIAH his pick-up. By the end of the film, “It is very difficult to explain, but these 77 eight characters—they connect to each Selected by Shane Engstrom, their brief encounter transforms into an honest and unapologetic love story other and they share their sexual desires, director of the Out Film CT/ their fears, their abilities, their cultures. Connecticut LGBT Film Festival that will resonate throughout their lives and that will live on in the minds of 88 They share the gift of life. Basically, to me I “This 2011 film centers around Alike, a countless viewers as well.” say the show speaks about the power and bright 17-year-old high school student importance of diversity.” who has never been kissed—and who HAPPY TOGETHER thinks about nothing else than getting 99 Working with the Wachowskis Selected by Nick McCarthy, that first kiss. Her parents suspect “I basically did everything Lana asked, it in here. Then I'm going to do this.’ And so they feel they are not alone, which, I programming coordinator for Alike is gay and encourage her to without question. She and Lilly are both it all started to make sense. So now I just think, is one of the scariest things in life. NYC’s NewFest very bright minds and they are also very, trust her fully. If she says ‘get naked,’ I go Everybody wants to be accepted. So when spend time with “good girl” Bina from 1010 church instead of her butch lesbian “Confronting the challenges of both life very committed to their vision of this story. there. If she tells me to kiss someone, I go somebody in the grocery store tells me a best friend Laura. To survive, Alike and romance, Wong Kar-Wai’s stylized When we first started filming, she used to there. Whatever she asks, I go there.” scene from the show helped him talk to masterwork Happy Together viscerally tell me, ‘Miguel, I need you to trust me. Do his mother, or made him feel like part of a risks friendship, heartbreak, and losing Going with your gut her family as she desperately struggles charts the relationship between two ANSWERS this. I promise it will make sense later.’ And community—it feels very, very good.” “We really wanted to push boundaries in to find her true self. The film is worth gay men across Hong Kong, Argentina, 1. Brokeback Mountain 2. Torch Song Trilogy 3. Angels in America then we’d have a dinner when filming was season 2—and that includes with all the That kiss in Sao Paulo seeing for a number of reasons: the and Taiwan. The characters, 4. Rocky Horror Picture Show 5. Paris Is Burning 6. Cabaret over, and she’d say ‘Now mama is going to To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar The Boys in the Band actors. As we were filming, I think we all [Silvestre filmed his character’s coming strength of its acting; the compelling played by Leslie Cheung and Tony 7. 8. explain everything to you. I'm going to get 9. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 10. The Broken Hearts Club went through a moment that was a bit out during last year’s actual Sao Paulo story; the diversity of its cast; and most Leung Chiu-wai, share a turbulent this moment, Miguel, then I'm going to cut scary for us; something challenging and Pride parade, giving a speech written by importantly, its unflinching look at the relationship marked with repeated unexpected whether it was violence or Lana that often blurred the line between abuse, breakups, and reconciliations. sexuality or confidence. But when you’re reality and fiction for many in attendance.] Using a mix of vibrant colors and DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS GOOGLE filming, things are going fast and you unconventionally loose story structure, Released in 1919, this German silent film “Lana is very well known in the LGBT just have to jump; you don’t have time to Wong Kar-Wai truly captures the mix of THIS is the oldest surviving gay film in existence. community there—she’s like the queen think. Afterwards, there were some times passion and chaos that encapsulates FILM! A dark tale packed with teacher/student of Brazil. She wrote this coming out that I couldn't sleep when I got home that love, while simultaneously evoking infatuation, blackmail, suicide, trashy bars, and scene where Lito gets to speak about night and started thinking about what I the bittersweet, universal qualities of illicit brothels—plus a cameo by Oscar Wilde!—it’s a his sexuality on stage in front of millions. did [Laughs]. But I would do it all again!” romantic bonds. A remarkable film, story that still resonates in 2017. Nearly destroyed when the They didn't know if it was me or my Happy Together was nominated for the Nazis came to power, the film only survives today because Support from his fans character. You know? Those scenes are are very special to me and the experience is Palme d'Or and won Best Director at of the gay rights advocates who craftily salvaged its reels. A “Lana’s words and scenes have touched something that I’m never going to forget.” HAPPY the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.” full-scale restoration is in the works. Until then, you can easily many people. It’s brought people together TOGETHER

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What Inspires Me Spanish actor Miguel Ángel Silvestre, star of the NetFlix series Sense8, reflects on season 2 of his hit series, kissing his TV boyfriend in-front of millions, and working with the always brilliant Lana and Lilly Wachowski.

The plot of Sense8 “It is very difficult to explain, but these eight characters—they connect to each other and they share their sexual desires, their fears, their abilities, their cultures. They share the gift of life. Basically, to me I say the show speaks about the power and importance of diversity.”

Working with the Wachowskis “I basically did everything Lana asked, it in here. Then I'm going to do this.’ And so they feel they are not alone, which, I without question. She and Lilly are both it all started to make sense. So now I just think, is one of the scariest things in life. very bright minds and they are also very, trust her fully. If she says ‘get naked,’ I go Everybody wants to be accepted. So when very committed to their vision of this story. there. If she tells me to kiss someone, I go somebody in the grocery store tells me a When we first started filming, she used to there. Whatever she asks, I go there.” scene from the show helped him talk to tell me, ‘Miguel, I need you to trust me. Do his mother, or made him feel like part of a Going with your gut this. I promise it will make sense later.’ And community—it feels very, very good.” then we’d have a dinner when filming was “We really wanted to push boundaries in That kiss in Sao Paulo over, and she’d say ‘Now mama is going to season 2—and that includes with all the explain everything to you. I'm going to get actors. As we were filming, I think we all [Silvestre filmed his character’s coming this moment, Miguel, then I'm going to cut went through a moment that was a bit out during last year’s actual Sao Paulo scary for us; something challenging and Pride parade, giving a speech written by unexpected whether it was violence or Lana that often blurred the line between sexuality or confidence. But when you’re reality and fiction for many in attendance.] filming, things are going fast and you “Lana is very well known in the LGBT just have to jump; you don’t have time to community there—she’s like the queen think. Afterwards, there were some times of Brazil. She wrote this coming out that I couldn't sleep when I got home that scene where Lito gets to speak about night and started thinking about what I his sexuality on stage in front of millions. did [Laughs]. But I would do it all again!” They didn't know if it was me or my Support from his fans character. You know? Those scenes are are very special to me and the experience is “Lana’s words and scenes have touched something that I’m never going to forget.” many people. It’s brought people together EMOJIS: JORDINN WEST

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TRIUMEQ is a once-a-day pill used to treat HIV-1. In some people, TRIUMEQ should not be used by itself. Take TRIUMEQ exactly as your healthcare provider tells you. APPROVED USES TRIUMEQ is a prescription HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus-type 1) medicine used alone or with other antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV-1 infection in adults. HIV-1 is the virus that causes AIDS. TRIUMEQ is not for use by itself in people who have or have had resistance to abacavir, dolutegravir, or lamivudine. TRIUMEQ should not be used in children under the age of 18. TRIUMEQ does not cure HIV-1 or AIDS. You must keep taking HIV-1 medicines to control HIV-1 infection and decrease HIV-related illnesses. IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION • Use with interferon and ribavirin-based regimens. If you’re taking What is the most important information I should know about TRIUMEQ? TRIUMEQ and interferon, with or without ribavirin, tell your healthcare provider about any new symptoms. Worsening of liver disease that has caused death TRIUMEQ can cause serious side eﬀ ects, including: has happened in people infected with both HIV-1 and hepatitis C who were • Serious allergic reactions (hypersensitivity reaction) that can cause taking antiretroviral medicines and interferon. death have happened with TRIUMEQ and other abacavir-containing products. Who should not take TRIUMEQ? Your risk of this allergic reaction to abacavir is much higher if you have a Peter Leopold gene variation called HLA-B*5701. Your healthcare provider can determine • Do not take TRIUMEQ if you: with a blood test if you have this gene variation. If you get symptoms from • have the HLA-B*5701 gene variation Diagnosed with Diagnosed with HIV in 2015 HIV in 2003 2 or more of the following groups while taking TRIUMEQ, call your • are allergic to abacavir, dolutegravir, or any of the ingredients in TRIUMEQ Garland healthcare provider right away: 1. fever; 2. rash; 3. nausea, vomiting, • take dofetilide (Tikosyn®) diarrhea, or stomach pain; 4. generally ill feeling, extreme tiredness, • have liver or kidney problems Diagnosed or achiness; 5. shortness of breath, cough, or sore throat. Your pharmacist What are other possible side eﬀ ects of TRIUMEQ? with HIV will give you a Warning Card with a list of these symptoms. Carry this • People with a history of hepatitis B or C virus may have an increased risk of in 2016 Warning Card with you at all times. developing new or worsening changes in certain liver tests during treatment If you stop taking TRIUMEQ because of an allergic reaction, never take with TRIUMEQ. Your healthcare provider may do tests to check your liver Jeannette Jack TRIUMEQ or any other abacavir- or dolutegravir-containing medicines function before and during treatment with TRIUMEQ. Diagnosed with Diagnosed with again. If you take TRIUMEQ or any other abacavir-containing medicine again • When you start taking HIV-1 medicines, your immune system may get HIV in 2011 HIV in 2010 after you have had an allergic reaction, within hours you may get life- stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for threatening symptoms that may include very low blood pressure or death. a long time. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you start having new If you stop TRIUMEQ for any other reason, even for a few days, and you are not symptoms after you start taking TRIUMEQ.

allergic to TRIUMEQ, talk with your healthcare provider before taking it again. B:11.5” S:9.25” • Changes in body fat can happen in people who take HIV-1 medicines. T:10.5” Taking TRIUMEQ again can cause a serious allergic or life-threatening reaction, even if you never had an allergic reaction to it before. If your healthcare • Some HIV-1 medicines, including TRIUMEQ, may increase your risk of provider tells you that you can take TRIUMEQ again, start taking it heart attack. when you are around medical help or people who can call a healthcare The most common side eﬀ ects of TRIUMEQ include: trouble sleeping, provider if you need one. headache, tiredness • A buildup of acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis can happen These are not all the possible side effects of TRIUMEQ. Tell your healthcare in some people who take TRIUMEQ. This serious medical emergency can cause provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. death. Call your healthcare provider right away if you feel very weak or What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking TRIUMEQ? tired; have unusual muscle pain; have trouble breathing; have stomach pain • Before you take TRIUMEQ, tell your healthcare provider if you: with nausea and vomiting; feel cold, especially in your arms and legs; feel • have been tested and know whether or not you have a gene variation called dizzy/light-headed; or have a fast/irregular heartbeat. HLA-B*5701 • Serious liver problems can happen in people who take TRIUMEQ. In some • have or have had liver problems, including hepatitis B or C infection; have cases, these serious liver problems can lead to death. You may be more likely kidney problems; have heart problems, smoke, or have diseases that increase to get lactic acidosis or serious liver problems if you are female, very your risk of heart disease such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or overweight (obese), or have been taking nucleoside analogue medicines diabetes; drink alcohol or take medicines that contain alcohol Real patients with HIV-1 taking TRIUMEQ as of 2014 for a long time. Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any • are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if TRIUMEQ will or later. Individual results may vary. of the following signs or symptoms: harm your unborn baby Individuals compensated for their time by ViiV Healthcare. • yellow skin, or the white part of the eyes turns yellow (jaundice); dark urine; are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you • • Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, light-colored stools; loss of appetite for several days or longer; nausea; pain, take TRIUMEQ aching, or tenderness on the right side of your stomach area including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and • You should not take TRIUMEQ if you also take: herbal supplements (for example, antacids or laxatives; vitamins such Ask your doctor about • Worsening of hepatitis B virus in people who have HIV-1 infection. If you • abacavir (EPZICOM®, TRIZIVIR®, or ZIAGEN®) as iron or calcium supplements; anti-seizure medicines; other medicines have HIV-1 and hepatitis B virus (HBV), your HBV may get worse (flare-up) if • lamivudine (COMBIVIR®, DutrebisTM, EPIVIR®, EPIVIR-HBV®, EPZICOM, to treat HIV-1, hepatitis, or tuberculosis; metformin; methadone; or St. you stop taking TRIUMEQ. A “flare-up” is when your HBV suddenly returns in or TRIZIVIR) John’s wort). Some medicines interact with TRIUMEQ. Keep a list of your a worse way than before. Worsening liver disease can be serious and may lead • emtricitabine (Emtriva®, Atripla®, Complera®, Stribild®, or Truvada®) medicines to show your healthcare provider and pharmacist. Do to death. Do not stop taking TRIUMEQ without first talking to your healthcare not start taking a new medicine without telling your healthcare provider, so he or she can monitor your health. Important Safety Information continued on next page provider. • Resistant hepatitis B virus. If you have HIV-1 and hepatitis B, the hepatitis B virus can change (mutate) during your treatment with TRIUMEQ and become You are encouraged to report negative side eﬀ ects of harder to treat (resistant). prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, ©2016 ViiV Healthcare group of companies. All rights reserved. or call 1-800-FDA-1088. Printed in USA. 723601R0 August 2016 Please see Important Facts about TRIUMEQ on the following pages. learn more at triumeq.com

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Indomitable: The Life Small Beauty Which item is the lie and of Barbara Grier by Jia Qing which three statements are by Joanne Passet Wilson-Yang true? Read on to find out… (Bella Books) (Metonymy Press) Selected by Julie Enzser Selected by #1. True! “They asked me to Morgan M. Page come,” she says. “They’re doing “Indomitable offers a number of a lot of outreach trying to bring significant insights into lesbian history. “Wilson-Yang’s Small Beauty eschews people in and trying to celebrate YOUR As both a writer and a publisher, tired gender stereotypes, placing their own arts as well. We’ll be Barbara Grier’s influence as a activist its protagonist—a mixed-race trans working with a lot of Cuban musi- straddles multiple periods—from the woman—in a rural Ontario community. cians and doing some outreach early civil rights work of the Daughters Living in the now-empty home of a to the LGBT community. It’s a big of Bilitis (DOB) and One Magazine close cousin who recently passed cultural thing they’ve got going on. to queer revolution in the 1990s. away, Mei learns about her trans I’ll be learning a couple of Celia SUMMER Passet documents Grier’s intense sisters while also making an emotional Cruz songs and doing some covers. engagements with not only the DOB discovery about her family’s hidden It’s going to be fun!” but every homophile organization of past. By focusing on these stories the ’50s and ’60s. While her life was without an emphasis on coming out #2. Also True! “When I first virtual, she was a virtual flâneuse, or transitioning, Small Beauty joins a get to a gig, before soundcheck, I’ll READING corresponding with every organization small but growing numbers of novels study what songs I have done there and publication of the period.” written by transgender women that are before. There are always a handful revolutionizing our ideas of how trans of songs that I’ll do at every show: Anybody people can exist within fiction today.” You know I’ve got to do “Come to by Ari Batnias My Window,” and I’ve got to do (W.W. Norton Here Comes “Bring Me Some Water”—and LIST & Company) the Sun I love those songs. But then I’ll Selected by by Nicole Dennis-Benn look at what the hall looks like, are Seven must-reads selected by the staff of Lambda Christopher Soto (Liveright) people going to be standing or sit- Literary. Compiled by William Johnson, program director Selected by “Ari Banias’ Anybody is a work of ting, how comfortable is the venue, Courtney Gillette poetry that acknowledges a boundary, is the city known for having a rowdy ambda Literary believes Lesbian, Gay, crowd, is there alcohol being sold. escapes it, and then helps to redefine “How do you save your sister, your All those factors have a massive LBisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature it. Bold. Witty. Knowing. In Anybody, lover, your home, and your ambition? impact on what ends up on the is fundamental to the preservation of our culture, names and identity markers become In this brilliant novel, Nicole Dennis- setlist each night. and that LGBT lives are affirmed when our stories flexible. Genders cease to exist. Benn sets out to answer this riddle. are written, published, and read. These stand- Landscapes shift and turn from Using a combination of rich prose #3. False! “A performance day ordinary landscape to extraordinary and crackling dialogue, the resulting for me is really routine,” she says. out books range from the comically erotic to the other. Banias writes, ‘Mostly a name story weaves together the lives of three “I mean super-routine. I get up and ornately lyrical, from the joyfully surreal to the feels like the crappy overhang I huddle unforgettable Jamaican women, each I have the same breakfast, which is heartbreakingly emotive; and all of them not only under / while rain skims the front of tangled in a legacy of trauma.” Three truths and a lie... a fruit smoothie with greens. And affirm our humanity but also provide vivid snap- me,’ and we believe him and join in the then I usually do my email and do shots of the vast nature of our LGBT lives. journey of unexpected self discovery.” This Is a Dance with Melissa Etheridge social media stuff. And then I go to Movie! soundcheck and have dinner. Then What Belongs by Tim Jones- We’re still rocking out with her almost thirty years after she got her I get hair and makeup, do the meet to You Yelvington Johnny Would Love start. Whether you’re more a “You Can Sleep While I Drive” kind of and greet, and then I have half an by Garth Greenwall (CCM Tiny Hardcore) hour to stretch and then I do my Me If My Dick person or an “I Want to Come Over” fan, how well do you actually Etheridge’s (FSG) Selected by Gordon West show. And every day is very much Were Bigger known this Grammy- and Academy Award-winning songstress? most recent Selected by routine, just like that.” by Brontez Purnell “Tim Jones-Yelvington’s pocket-sized album, Memphis Steven Cordova PrideLife caught up with her recently to find out. Can you spot the (Feminist Press) book of short stories isn’t so much Rock and Soul. lie mixed in with these truths we uncovered during our talk? #4. Also True! “Usually the Selected by Theodore Kerr “In his literary debut, Greenwell delves a collection of separate narratives last album I did is my favorite, you into traditions forged by great queer as it is an amalgam of the multiple know. But I can fortunately pop “Brontez is an open-hearted romantic novelists past and present. Like Proust personalities—secretive, sexy, glittery, She was invited to per- She’s a ball of nerves on 1 3 back into any of my albums and whose desires for love, sex, and mixed with a good deal of Edmund lonely, tragic—that most sexually form in Cuba this summer performance day, even have an appreciation for them and community give him—and the White, he draws much of his material awakened LGBT individuals will easily as part of the country’s cultural after doing nearly 100 shows a really enjoy where I was at and book—life. In a series of essays, from his own life. The novel tells the understand if not wholly relate to. arts exchange. year for nearly 30 years. the music that I was making at the notes, vignettes, choreographies, and story of an American teacher visiting From a bonafide starfucker journaling time. My first album is the tough- an accumulation of creative writing Bulgaria. There, he falls for a local his conquests to the intricacies est. What I didn’t know back then. prompts, Purnell has produced a hustler and starts a torrid relationship of coupledom to the dissection of The setlist for each Sixteen albums into her 2 4 [Laughs] Looking back, I just want 126-page illustrative text that shows filled with sex, longing, and mutual a fetish, each appendage of this performance she does is award-winning career, to tell my 27-year-old self, “Hey, how creating freedom for yourself predation as both characters risk diminutive book is a frank and forward carefully crafted to match the she’s still just as satisfied—and it’s all right! It’s going to be a great, FOR LAMBDA’S FULL REVIEWS OF (and those around you) sometimes violence—and love—as they work glimpse into a highly sexualized hyper- city and its vibe. perhaps not as stressed—as long ride. It’s cool, just chill.” THESE BOOKS AND MANY MORE, demands disruption, discomfort, and through their difficult pasts.” reality just waiting to be explored.” GO TO LAMBDALITERARY.COM a lot of movement.” when she first started out.

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Her new book, There not just about having good self- She’s also a serious Is No F*cking Secret: esteem. It’s about finding a way Cher fan. 6 Letters From a Badass Bitch, to accept yourself for who you “Oh my God! Don’t get me is a summer must-read. are and learning to be the best started! I am obsessed with Osbourne: “I’ve been work- person that you can be.” everything Cher. Did you see ing on it for three and a half Cher when she played all the Reasons years. At first, everyone wanted She no longer worries characters in West Side Story? me to write a style book. But about trying to fit in. It’s one of the most fabulous we ultimately, I believe that people “One of the most important things you’ve ever seen in should dress and wear what- things I’ve learned is that you You have to your life. With her, I’m fan- love... ever makes them feel more can’t waste your time trying ning out. [Laughs] There are confident, comfortable, and to be somebody you’re not, learn to accept not that many people I fan out Kelly happy. So it went from there because it will kill you. It will yourself and be over, but…. How many people to this monotonous process of manifest and come out in the proud of every have won an Oscar, Grammy, Osbourne bullet-pointing my life and me most ugly ways. You have to single tiny thing and Emmy—who can do it all? realizing, ‘Yes, my life is crazy.’ learn to accept yourself and Cher has always been an idol Fashion icon. Reality TV about you that But I also knew I couldn’t just be proud of every single tiny of mine. She has been playing pioneer. Daughter of talk about living in a rock-and- thing about you that makes you makes you an with fashion and making it fun the Prince of Darkness. roll world—I wanted it to be an individual and makes you individual. before people even knew how You know her. You love her. relatable. So, the way that I special. I know what it feels to do it. There’s just something We do too! Here’s why: found it worked in the end was like to hate yourself, and I’ve so empowering about Cher. I by writing letters to people; let- never known what it feels like absolutely love her!” ters about different situations to fit in. And that has nothing and places and all the things to do with sexuality. It’s about Despite her fame, that have happened to make me accepting that you’re different— she loves spending who I am. In my book you can and because you’re different downtime with family. pick up and go from any part that makes you special. It “We’re very, very close. Without to any other part of it, and I’m really does!” traffic, we all live no more than so happy with that fact and the 15 minutes away from each way it turned out.” She has nothing but love other. I speak to my brother, for her LGBT fans. my dad, and my mom every day. She understands the “The fact that we’re living in a More than once. Because we challenges of going world where sexuality is still grew up in such an insular envi- through a difficult period. even an issue for people drives ronment on a tour bus with just “I say in my book that one of the me fucking crazy. No one has us, we were the outcasts. And it reasons it’s called There is No the right to tell you who you kind of stuck that way. [Laughs] Fucking Secret is because people should love. No one has the We’ve never grown out of it. I’ll would always come up to me right to tell you how you should never be one of those adults that and ask, ‘What’s your secret? present yourself to the world. is still blaming their parents for How did you do it?’ Whether it If that’s the way that you are, their life not working out. No was my issues with substance it’s not like you wake up one day way! I fucking adore my family. abuse, weight loss, or, you know, and you say, ‘Oh, I’ve decided And they keep me grounded. I just growing up, people would to be gay today.’ You’re born learned from my parents at an always ask how I did it. And I’d that way. It’s just so sickening early age that you can’t just sit think: ‘Wait, this took forever. to me that this is still an issue. there and complain. There are How did you guys not see this? The LGBT community has been so many people in this world Why are you asking me this there for me my entire career— who are really, really suffering, now?’ And what I realized is supported me, and taught me, and for me to complain about that people only ever pick up on and accepted me, and loved anything is like, ‘Oh, fuck off.’ your journey when you reach me—and I will never, ever turn I’d rather spend that time trying MATHU ANDERSEN ANDERSEN MATHU MATHU BOULON; KRISTOFER REYNOLDS PHOTOGRAPHY BOULON; KRISTOFER REYNOLDS PHOTOGRAPHY MAGNUS HASTINGS; PAUL MAGNUS HASTINGS; PAUL FROM LEFT: FROM LEFT: your destination. Because it’s my back on them, and I’ll never, to help other people however I not their life, it’s yours. And it’s ever stop fighting for equality.” possibly can.”

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Her new book, There not just about having good self- She’s also a serious Is No F*cking Secret: esteem. It’s about finding a way Cher fan. Letters From a Badass Bitch, to accept yourself for who you “Oh my God! Don’t get me is a summer must-read. are and learning to be the best started! I am obsessed with Osbourne: “I’ve been work- person that you can be.” everything Cher. Did you see ing on it for three and a half Cher when she played all the years. At first, everyone wanted She no longer worries characters in West Side Story? me to write a style book. But about trying to fit in. It’s one of the most fabulous ultimately, I believe that people “One of the most important things you’ve ever seen in should dress and wear what- things I’ve learned is that you You have to your life. With her, I’m fan- ever makes them feel more can’t waste your time trying ning out. [Laughs] There are confident, comfortable, and to be somebody you’re not, learn to accept not that many people I fan out happy. So it went from there because it will kill you. It will yourself and be over, but…. How many people to this monotonous process of manifest and come out in the proud of every have won an Oscar, Grammy, bullet-pointing my life and me most ugly ways. You have to single tiny thing and Emmy—who can do it all? realizing, ‘Yes, my life is crazy.’ learn to accept yourself and about you that Cher has always been an idol But I also knew I couldn’t just be proud of every single tiny of mine. She has been playing talk about living in a rock-and- thing about you that makes you makes you an with fashion and making it fun roll world—I wanted it to be an individual and makes you individual. before people even knew how relatable. So, the way that I special. I know what it feels to do it. There’s just something found it worked in the end was like to hate yourself, and I’ve so empowering about Cher. I by writing letters to people; let- never known what it feels like absolutely love her!” ters about different situations to fit in. And that has nothing and places and all the things to do with sexuality. It’s about Despite her fame, that have happened to make me accepting that you’re different— she loves spending who I am. In my book you can and because you’re different downtime with family. pick up and go from any part that makes you special. It “We’re very, very close. Without to any other part of it, and I’m really does!” traffic, we all live no more than so happy with that fact and the 15 minutes away from each way it turned out.” She has nothing but love other. I speak to my brother, for her LGBT fans. my dad, and my mom every day. She understands the “The fact that we’re living in a More than once. Because we challenges of going world where sexuality is still grew up in such an insular envi- through a difficult period. even an issue for people drives ronment on a tour bus with just “I say in my book that one of the me fucking crazy. No one has us, we were the outcasts. And it reasons it’s called There is No the right to tell you who you kind of stuck that way. [Laughs] Fucking Secret is because people should love. No one has the We’ve never grown out of it. I’ll would always come up to me right to tell you how you should never be one of those adults that and ask, ‘What’s your secret? present yourself to the world. is still blaming their parents for How did you do it?’ Whether it If that’s the way that you are, their life not working out. No was my issues with substance it’s not like you wake up one day way! I fucking adore my family. abuse, weight loss, or, you know, and you say, ‘Oh, I’ve decided And they keep me grounded. I just growing up, people would to be gay today.’ You’re born learned from my parents at an always ask how I did it. And I’d that way. It’s just so sickening early age that you can’t just sit think: ‘Wait, this took forever. to me that this is still an issue. there and complain. There are How did you guys not see this? The LGBT community has been so many people in this world Why are you asking me this there for me my entire career— who are really, really suffering, now?’ And what I realized is supported me, and taught me, and for me to complain about that people only ever pick up on and accepted me, and loved anything is like, ‘Oh, fuck off.’ your journey when you reach me—and I will never, ever turn I’d rather spend that time trying MATHU ANDERSEN MATHU BOULON; KRISTOFER REYNOLDS PHOTOGRAPHY MAGNUS HASTINGS; PAUL FROM LEFT: your destination. Because it’s my back on them, and I’ll never, to help other people however I not their life, it’s yours. And it’s ever stop fighting for equality.” possibly can.”

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sioned by ViiV Healthcare—an what the researchers hoped was independent pharmaceutical an unforgettable and emotion- company dedicated to HIV ally charged experience. treatment—especially hard. One particularly powerful Looking at cities like scene in the production features Baltimore, MD, and Jackson, a mother and son discussing AL—two locations hit hard by the conversations that she was WE’RE the HIV/AIDS epidemic—they having with her brothers—they were determined to find a new wonder what’s going on with DOING way to get their message out. him and keep asking her when The question became, however, he is finally going to come home IT what could they do that hadn’t with a girlfriend. As tensions Testing for already been done? mount, the mother becomes HIV “Our company is solely frustrated and ultimately asks focused on HIV,” says Kali her son what’s she supposed to Lindsey, the senior manager say to them? An obvious break- “THIS PLAY IS Pleased with the success of of external affairs for ViiV in ing point in the relationship, he HELPING [ATTEND- the initial performances, ViiV North America, “so we’re not loses control of emotions and EES] TO NOT ONLY and ACCELERATE! are now #DOINGIT in the creative business. But we explodes back in frustration JOIN IN THE BATTLE considering the future of the wanted to really try to do some “It’s none of their business!” AGAINST HIV, BUT play and whether they can bring #DoingIt deep listening and understand- “That moment was very ALSO UNDERSTAND it to other cities. Lindsey coming, and take a holistic and jarring for most people in the THEMSELVES AND pares the initial performances AAA DoingIt Palm Card_6X4_010716.indd 1 1/11/16 10:55 AM authentic approach to present- audience,” says Lindsey, “this DEAL WITH THEIR to throwing a pebble in a pond GET TESTED and creating ripples that helped ing our information,” he says. man was trying to talk to his SEXUALITY.” mother, but he couldn’t be his to start candid conversations : Out of that potent mix of full self and couldn’t tell his about HIV and blackness and innovation and frustration truth. And that dialogue and homosexuality and bisexuality came ACCELERATE!, a new reaction in the performance throughout both regions. “It’s YOUR #DOINGIT CHECKLIST initiative started by ViiV to really arrested and captivated really evolved into this broader help communicate some of folks in the audience.” conversation,” he says. “We’re their research findings and A turning point for the talking to the community and broaden HIV awareness among character in the play, it was also learning to understand what CDC recommends that everyone get tested for HIV at least once the LGBT community. To help a turning point for many in the they need and learning to Get tested for HIV. to find a testing facility near you, learn facts as part of routine cdc.gov/DoingIthealth care and that people with certain risk factors get tested facilitate the program, they audience watching their story provide safety, information, and more often. Visit resources,” he says. “This play is partnered with Harley & Com- unfold in front of them. about HIV, and how HIV is affecting our communities. pany, a New York City creative helping them to not only join in studio who helped them to come “We didn’t expect people to the battle against HIV, but also Promote HIV testing by sharing the facts and the up with the idea of expressing walk out of ‘As Much As I Can’ understand themselves and Encourage others to get tested. those ethnographic research and immediately go get tested deal with their sexuality.” importance of. knowing your status on social media. Remember to tag your posts with #DoingIt findings through an immersive for HIV or [for people with the Most importantly, based on to download free materials and theater experience called “As disease to] walk out and roll the success of the initial perfor- Visit cdc.gov/DoingIt Much As I Can.” into care,” he says. “But we mances, this immersive theater Join the #DoingIt movement. The show, which ran in did hope they would leave and experience is an innovative, new resources to share within your network and your community. January in both Baltimore and talk with someone about HIV. tool that could serve as a tem- Jackson, traced the stories of And that conversation could plate for communicating future Testing is Fast, Free and Confidential cdc.gov/DoingIt four black gay and bisexual men, help them overcome their fear HIV findings to other com- Join Our Mailing List putting the audience directly in of getting tested or of engag- munities across the country as AAA DoingIt Palm Card_6X4_010716.indd 2 1/11/16 10:55 AM the middle of the action. Audi- ing in care, or help them ask well, provoking a broader con- To donate or learn more, visit NBJC.org and follow us on social media: ence members were allowed additional questions about versation and proving the need to roam and explore the set treatment. 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a few friends and we headed over to West Hollywood Park. Before long, despite the summer humidity, we’d started an impromptu game of tag. It wasn’t the fabled backyard game I dreamed about as a kid. But it also wasn’t bad. Looking foolish, running through sprinklers in a public park at 1 a.m., we had a blast. Days later, that moment still lingered in my head like an unsettling hangover. Seven months after that, the hangover finally lifted when I called people playing our games; for are necessarily wrong. When some friends and I decided it the friend who doesn’t mind we were first starting out, I was time for a rematch. This when their buddy fails try- was told that L.A. couldn’t time, we organized a game ing to catch a ball, and lifts support more than one event of Capture the Flag. Fifty them up instead of tearing per month. Today, we pro- people showed up. Varsity them down. It’s thanks to the gram 10 a week. Gay League was born. overweight player who nails I am not a business genius. Since its inception, our their first goal in soccer and I had no entrepreneurial group has provided enter- becomes the hero they know skills. But I did a lot of tainment and activities for they are. To the HIV positive research. I failed as much as more than 7,500 LGBT and athletes who see stigma left I succeeded. I still fail. It’s straight players. Currently, at the bleachers. To every OK to fail. The point is to get we program 21 leagues man that sees a woman as out there and try and to see Come Out and Play across California, plus a powerful peer, and every what you can accomplish. monthly events ranging from woman who sees a man as Once in a while, I try to Created by Will Hackner (top) in 2007, What started out as a simple childhood dream has turned into a thriving recreational community trivia and bingo to trampo- more than a drinking buddy. step back and look at what Varsity Gay League now programs for thousands of Californians By Will Hackner line dodgeball tournaments It’s not a perfect society, but I’ve created. I had a good leagues ranging from kickball, bowling, and soccer to tennis, beach volleyball, and beer olympics. We host in the midst of thousands idea at the right time and and ultimate Frisbee in seven U.S. the national kickball tourna- of players taking part in our I followed through on it. cities, with more on the way, ment in Las Vegas as well as sports each season, I see a And you can, too. Hopefully Varsity Gay League adolescence, community “VARSITY GAY LEAGUE IS was gay, and this wasn’t Nick a West Coast tournament cul-de-sac of love and friend- everyone can feel the same is one of the world’s and friendship—knowing ABOUT MORE THAN JUST at Nite. in Palm Springs. We are in ship in the strangest and best way someday. Whether it’s at largest LGBT and your neighbor and being able PLAYING SPORTS. IT’S ABOUT the final stages to launch of places. I see true pride. work or within a relationship allies sports organizations. to say hi—was something I FRIENDSHIP AND FAMILY. Moving to L.A. in 2002 leagues nationally, starting And I’d like to help it or on the field, the lesson And I’m the one who started always strived for. But it was WE’VE HELPED TO SPAWN changed my LGBT social with Orlando, Portland, Dal- continue to grow. I believe time has taught me—and it. That’s a hard thing to say. never my reality. I fantasized RELATIONSHIPS AND life in an instant, but now it las, and Austin. We’ve even that within each and every the lesson the Varsity Gay In truth, I don’t like about 1950s Eisenhower MARRIAGES AND EVEN A was centered around bars played kickball in Dodger one of us there is an unreal- League tries to inspire—is talking about my accom- suburbs with games of tag in FEW BABIES!” and Hollywood parties. Stadium in front of 10,000 ized passion that can become that it’s never too late to grab plishments that much—a the neighbor’s backyard and It was fun, but the entire fans. But these are just a few a reality. When a family the ball and run with it. Dive statement which I’m sure Dad watching me swing away culture was predicated on of the numbers behind our member or friend, or even a in. Make your play, whatever would bring uncontrollable over center field. I wanted to your looks and your power. I overall success. business partner says, “Well, it is. Go do something today. laughter to my friends. live on a cul-de-sac with my wanted more. One night, in we don’t do things that way. You can always worry about FOR MORE INFORMATION As a child of divorce and best friends and have block 2006, after refusing to take The truth is all of these No one would be interested it tomorrow. And above all, To learn more on Varsity Gay a transplant to new homes parties every summer. I another lap at the bar look- accomplishments wouldn’t in that,” it means they don’t just get out there and try to League, check out their site at and cities for much of my wanted the perfect life. 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the brownstone and the kids. presence in home” to “We eted” was a means to an end “What?! I was a child of don’t deal with your kind.” It with adoption officials—but the gay liberation movement. was tough: 21 times applied, it’s not how Doug intended You didn’t see kids in our 21 times turned down. to raise his sons, Justin and community. We don’t have “We were getting ready to Zachary, now 31 and 28, kids!” says Wayne, a Bronx approach Lambda Legal for a respectively. native who joined the legend- class action lawsuit,” Wayne Gay and lesbian parents ary Gay Activist Alliance at says. “Then we got a call spanning generations echoed the age of 19. from the agency: ‘Would you this piece of wisdom first Who woulda thunk this be interested in a 4-month- when I sought their counsel: unlikely power duo would old little girl?’ ”Cue Sal’s Hide who you are and you’re end up spawning a landmark unbridled screams. gonna mess up your kid. gay adoption? Their joy was tempered “It really isn’t important Not that Wayne changed with a sobering sign of the if you are gay or straight his mind overnight: “It took times: Their girl’s foster or trans or all of the differ- me 14 years to come around,” family wanted her out ent colors or arrangements Wayne says with a chuckle. ASAP. “They found out her of blended families,” says At the height of the mom was a drug abuser so Doug, matter-of-factly, from AIDS crisis in 1985, Wayne assumed the little girl had the Harlem home he shares attended a health conference AIDS and would give it to with Michael Elasser, his co- in Washington, D.C., as part their other children,” Sal parent of 30 years. of his duties as liaison to the says. But when Hope—in all “This goes way beyond gay and lesbian community her freckle-faced glory—was sexuality or ethnicity or for the Comptroller of NYC. placed in their arms on religious beliefs and all the “I signed up for one August 19, 1987, “We knew things that make people workshop, just for me: Gay right away, she was our child. different: If you aren’t com- Men Choosing Parenthood,” There is nothing wrong with fortable in your own skin, Wayne recalls. It was there her.” how can you raise kids that a lesbian pal put her It took another two years without passing all that stuff Daddy Issues newborn baby in his arms. of legal battles—Hope tod- onto them?” His fate was sealed. dled into the courtroom for Doug reminds me of Opposite page: Rob and Nate; “After the trip,” Sal the final judgment—before something Wayne and Sal Wayne and Sal with daughter, Hope; I never wanted to be a daddy. Yeah, it’s a loaded term—and I mean it both ways. But then I met a Michael and Doug with sons, younger man whose capacity for love challenged me to examine how much I had to give. By Rob Bailey remembers, “I picked Wayne Sal became the first out gay repeatedly stressed: Visibil- Justin and Zachary; and Scott and up at the station, and he said, man to experience single- ity is key. Show up. Jason with son, Victor. ‘Let’s do it.’ I knew exactly parent adoption. (Courts “At school open houses, we Below: Family photos, all grown up. what he meant.” wouldn’t allow gay couples always raised our hands first An intoxicating See, Nate’s a family man. “TO ME, SHELTERING A KID our community’s paternal to adopt together at the time; and said: ‘It’s important that first rush of lust Fatherhood was never a FROM HATE SOUNDS LIKE pioneers, as well as modern YOU GOTTA HAVE HOPE Wayne got his “legal” status you know Justin and Zach- at a hipster arcade question of if—only when. THE FIGHT OF A LIFETIME. beneficiaries of their blazed Wayne and Sal began in 1994.) ary have two fathers,’ Doug in Brooklyn deepened over Me, a decade his senior and NATE JUST SEES IT AS trails, to explore where the combing NYC’s adoption says. “Your kids are going to a decade of life challenges: subconsciously beat down by CHANCE TO LOVE HARDER.” journey of becoming a gay directory, or “a Sears catalog THE NO. 1 LGBTQ have questions… That helped Paycheck-to-paycheck my native Bible Belt, I never parent stands today. of foster kids who need PARENTING TIP a lot of other parents who living. Mortgage. Floods. dared dream I deserved it. homes.” They didn’t care Doug Robinson worked for a were conflicted or wanted Marriage. Cancer. Loss But after a lifetime of WAYNE & SAL: about race or gender, but major corporation and was to be supportive but didn’t of parents. accepting less than, I had A FAMILY AFFAIR they refused to hide. The “financially and emotionally know how because they’d Nate, my partner, is no lon- decided that maybe it was When sexy Serpico look- opening salvo of their home ready” to be a dad in the ’80s. never met a gay parent.” ger a fitness magazine editor time to join the more than alike Sal Iacullo wrote his study story read, “Sal and “But when we adopted, there Sal pointed out that kids with six-pack abs. My hair 125,000 same-sex house- first love letter to Wayne Wayne are an openly gay was no handbook, no noth- often hide teasing to spare turned silver and my chin holds raising 220,000 Steinman in 1972, the couple seeking to adopt.” ing—we were winging it,” he parents’ feelings: “It’s really grew weaker. But through it, children right now. 23-year-old Brooklynite put Shutdowns ranged from remembers. important to build strength our “us” grew stronger. So, I sought out a couple of it all out there: He wanted “Child needs stronger female Being temporarily “clos- of character so they can say,

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To those we lost, we will keep you in our hearts, this I let him go to respond to came out, my friends would year and every year… other calls surely as frantic as often just tell each other, “See Stanley Almodovar III mine had been and called my you tonight at the bar.” THE Amanda Alvear mother again. She picked up bar. No name needed. Parlia- Oscar A. Aracena-Montero on the first ring. “Did you find ment House was the bar. Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala him? Was he there?” Alejandro Barrios Martinez I said, “Good news. He Of course, thanks to a shrewd Martin Benitez Torres didn’t go out last night.” As I real estate purchase made by Antonio D. Brown Darryl R. Burt II said it, I felt a strange twinge a movie mogul several years Honoring the victims, volunteers at Jonathan A. Camuy Vega of survivor’s guilt by proxy. before my family arrived, Wilton Manors Pride (located near Fort Angel L. Candelario-Padro Our dear friend was safe, but that Orlando is long, long Lauderdale) march just one week Simon A. Carrillo Fernandez it felt wrong to use the words gone. The new Orlando, I kept after the Pulse attack. Juan Chevez-Martinez “good news” in any context. reminding myself, is a sprawl- Luis D. Conde ing multi-county metropolis My mother audibly exhaled. Cory J. Connell with millions of residents and Tevin E. Crosby After returning a few more more hotel rooms than NYC. Franky J. Dejesus Velazquez calls from friends, I moved The new Orlando, the real phones kept ringing,” he said. Deonka D. Drayton to my computer to find about Orlando, the relentlessly That gut-wrenching image, Mercedez M. Flores two hundred horrified emails booming Orlando where mentioned only once, has Juan R. Guerrero and Facebook messages from people from all over the world haunted me more than the Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz readers of my website, Joe. enjoy the most American- days and weeks of memorials Paul T. Henry My.God, most of whom knew style vacations one can and tributes that followed Frank Hernandez I’m from Orlando. I dashed imagine, made sick “sense” as that terrible day. I thought Miguel A. Honorato off a blanket note of thanks a terror target. That thought about my own mother’s call Javier Jorge-Reyes on my social media accounts made it feel oddly less per- that morning. I thought about Jason B. Josaphat and began what would sonal somehow. all those calls to Thomas. Eddie J. Justice become a 16-hour day of the But not long after I put up Three days later, I flew Anthony L. Laureano Disla most gruesome blogging I’ve those emotional deflector home to Florida. Exactly one Christopher A. Leinonen ever done. shields, we all learned that week later, I attended Wilton Brenda L. Marquez McCool For the first couple of the killer was a local man. Manors Pride, where mobile Jean C. Mendez Perez Remembering Pulse Akyra Monet Murray hours, with few details avail- SWAT command trailers Kimberly Morris Looking back on the tragic Pulse nightclub massacre, one year later By Joe Jervis able, like many in the world And with that, I circled back from three counties perched Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez I kept wondering, “Why did to my Orlando, the Orlando ominously just off the parade Luis O. Ocasio-Capo this happen at a gay bar? And targeted not for its inherent route. Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez why did this happen at a gay Orlando-ness, but simply Leading the parade were Eric I. Ortiz-Rivera bar in Orlando, of all places?” because it was there, local, 49 men and women dressed Joel Rayon Paniagua You see, for some reason known, familiar, comfortably in white shirts. Each of It was Sunday, June and he hasn’t said anything “I KEPT WONDERING, ‘WHY quite close to Pulse. Enrique L. Rios Jr. 12, around 8 a.m. on Facebook!” As she spoke, DID THIS HAPPEN AT A GAY Standing in front of the I still tend to see Orlando within reach. My Orlando, them held a stark white Juan P. Rivera Velazquez I began my day, I turned on CNN and was BAR? AND WHY DID THIS unfolding scene on my frozen in amber as the small not a mythic emblem of sign bearing the name of a Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan as usual, by examining my stunned by the headline, HAPPEN AT A GAY BAR IN television, I promised to call town it was when my family capitalism and the decadent Pulse victim. I maneuvered Christopher J. Sanfeliz phone. I usually sleep with “Dozens Killed at Orlando ORLANDO, OF ALL PLACES?’ ” my mother back and began moved there in 1971. A ter- West. My gay Orlando. My through the hushed crowd to Xavier E. Serrano Rosado the ringer off, so I hadn’t Gay Nightclub.” calling Thomas. Voicemail. I ror attack on that Orlando fleeting disconnect fell apart. take a few photos. Gilberto R. Silva Menendez heard the many calls that had Thomas is my oldest friend. texted him. “PLEASE CALL didn’t make sense. I still Later that day, a CNN The solemn group of 49 Edward Sotomayor Jr. poured in while I slept. We met at Orlando’s Parlia- ME.” I called again. Voice- tend to see it as the town commentator grimly noted marched slowly, deliber- Shane E. Tomlinson Noticing a call from my ment House in 1982 while we mail. And again. Voicemail. where kids would race to the that first responders and ately, each holding their sign Leroy Valentin Fernandez mother, I immediately called were students at University Finally, after an agonizing Jordan Marsh at the far end investigators had forced over their head. And as they Luis S. Vielma her back. Without saying of Central Florida. He and my ten minutes, he answered, of Colonial Mall because it themselves to tune out the passed, I could hear several Luis D. Wilson-Leon hello, she blurted, “Did you mother are longtime friends, also without saying hello. had escalators. Escalators! cacophony of ringing phones phones ringing from the Jerald A. Wright see what happened at Pulse? and she always invites him for “Baby, I’m OK.” We spoke for In a department store! Why rising all day from the 49 pockets of the marchers. The Have you talked to Thomas? Christmas dinner with our two minutes as his call-wait- would ISIS care about that bodies strewn about Pulse. signs remained aloft. Their I can’t get him on the phone family. They also both live ing tone beeped incessantly. Orlando? Heck, when I first “All of those people, their phones kept ringing. SAMUEL CORUM/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES SAMUEL CORUM/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES

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When Donald Trump was elected last November, no one knew where the country (or the world) was headed. A large portion of the LGBT community was in deep, untold grieving. All that had been accomplished in the past few years—by the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize gay marriage, states enacting antidiscrimination clauses, the growing fight for transgender rights—seemed to have the bottom ripped from beneath it. Now, more than 100 days in, we’re here, still queer, and still fighting. In the week after the election, calls to GLAD Answers legal information service skyrocketed TRUMP’S 600%. And that widespread fear of Trump, most FIRST 100 would argue, is deep, multifaceted, and founded DAYS on truth: His administration is now packed with Jan 20 Trump social conservatives; religious freedom advocates; is inaugurated into office as the and detached corporate executives (who have a President of the combined net worth of $12 billion, according to United States. financials released in March). He and his appoin- Jan 23 Money tees are the greatest unknowns that all minorities from proceeds of in this country have faced, arguably, since the civil Trump’s inauguration cake, made by rights era. Even our fundamental right to protest Buttercream Bakery, seems in danger. in Washington, DC, But now is the most critical time to step from will go Human Rights Campaign (HRC), behind our laptops and get involved. In fact, advo- says owner Tiffany MacIsaac. RIBOUILLARD/AFP/GETTYIMAGES, DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/GETTY IMAGES RIBOUILLARD/AFP/GETTYIMAGES, DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/GETTY cates agree that there are now more LGBT people

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Jan 24 Trump Feb 7 Trump falsely and allies than ever before engaged in advocacy appoints the now- gelical family, and I have friends who’ve suffered The newly appointed conservative Supreme claims that the media work. Trump is the exacting fire needed to be confirmed John through and been traumatized by it,” he explains. Court Judge Neil Gorsuch doesn’t exactly bode didn’t report on the Gore as deputy Orlando Massacre. spurred into action. Here is how organizations assistant attorney Yet, there is actually bipartisan momentum that well for putting “religious liberty” laws behind us like GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD, general in the Justice could help us to ban it, Isaacs says. either: His record indicates that he believes even Feb 22 Trump glad.org), the Equality Federation (equality Department’s civil As of now it’s a slow process, only 6 states (Cali- corporations have the right to exercise religion. rescinds federal rights division. He Department federation.org), and even the conservative Repub- was one of the fornia, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, New Deaton, who actually supports religious freedom, of Education lican LGBT organization American Unity Fund lawyers to defend Mexico [as of the end of May]), and the District of albeit much more narrowly—e.g., the right of clergy transgender North Carolina’s HB2 protection rights (americanunityfund.com) are creating change for anti-trans bathroom Columbia have bans. “But,” he says, “we really to refuse to perform LGBT ceremonies—is ardently that the Obama the LGBT community in the Trump era. bill, among other anti- need Congress to act because we can’t do this state working to convince Republicans that a more lim- administration minority rulings. by state. It should be banned nationwide, so we’re ited “religious liberty” interpretation protects the had enacted based on Title IX DON’T FEAR. BACK TO THE FUTURE Jan 25 Trump- working on bipartisan legislation to introduce in rights of all Americans while still protecting reli- of the Education ACTIVISM IS HERE. appointed the Congress this year toward that end.” gious freedom. Amendments of now-confirmed 1972, a federal “Trump’s actions speak louder than his words,” Attorney General law prohibiting says GLAD executive director Janson Wu. “He has Jeff Sessions, who REVOKE THE LICENSE TO DISCRIMINATE. LET’S TALK ABOUT IT... discrimination on co-sponsored the the basis of sex in said that he’s a friend to the LGBT community, but conservative 2015 The other high-alert issue experts are readying for WITH REPUBLICANS. any federally funded everything he’s done has proven otherwise. From “religious freedom” is the full passage of a “religious freedom” bill. In Deaton may be a minority in the Republican party, education program the nomination of Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, First Amendment early February, just three days after Trump said he but the good news is, he’s not the only conservative or activity. Defense Act (FADA), to the decision to reverse protections of transgen- which would have would “continue to enforce a 2014 executive order on our side, even though it may seem that way. More Mar 6 Second Travel der students, to the people he’s surrounded himself allowed institutions, [sic.] barring discrimination against LGBT people importantly, he’s not the only Republican we need Ban is signed by businesses, and executive order. with in his cabinet, he’s always shown a willingness individuals to claim working for federal contractors,” LGBT and civil to be talking to. He knows, however, that many to concede to the religious right’s demands with no religious rights to rights advocates bristled when a leaked draft of an LGBT people won’t be comfortable hashing it out Mar 28 U.S. Census thought of the well-being of our community.” discriminate against executive order surfaced that would green-light with conservatives. Still, he says, your voice can Bureau removes LGBT people. He’s references to Yet, the LGBT community seems energized also voted against federal LGBT discrimination and “tick off every- make a significant difference. questions for the to fight back, especially at the local and state repeal of “Don’t thing on the religious right’s wishlist,” Wu says. “A lot of people in the LGBT community are scheduled 2020 Ask, Don’t Tell,” Census that would level—and that’s nothing new in the struggle for and against a bill This attempted over-reach of “religious free- extremely skeptical of Republicans, but we have to have surveyed queer rights, Wu says. Therefore a loss of federal granting workplace dom” while rubber-stamping LGBT discrimination questions about momentum due to a Republican White House and discrimination isn’t new: The past two years, “religious liberty” sexual orientation. protections to Congress shouldn’t (and won’t) paralyze us. “It’s LGBT people. has been a searing topic in state legislatures. Yet, Apr 7 Anti-LGBT what we’ve always done: For most of the history of make our state and local elected representatives lis- the passage of nationwide “religious freedom,” Judge Neil Gorsuch Jan 27 Trump is confirmed as our movement, we’ve faced hostile administrations, ten. “When we tell our stories, we are winning,” Wu signs executive Wu explains, “would provide some of the broad- BE THAT the next Supreme so we made the most progress at the state level. This explains. “When we argue and debate with reason, order banning est exemptions for religious organizations, private SQUEAKY Court appointee. feels like back to the future activism, where we’re we win people over; and we need to keep doing that entry of people individuals, and businesses and be the largest He joined the Tenth from seven muslim WHEEL WHEN Circuit’s decision falling back on the strategies and tools that we’ve every day in state courts and state legislatures.” nations in addition expansion of taxpayer discrimination that we’ve NO ONE in Hobby Lobby v. used for decades to continue to make progress at to suspending all ever seen against LGBT people.” Trump didn’t Sebelius to support refugee resettlement, ELSE WILL. a corporation’s the state level while also resisting the federal gov- FUEL THE FIGHT TO BAN including LGBT sign the order in February. But on May 4, he signed “religious liberty” ernment’s attacks on our lives.” CONVERSION THERAPY. refugees, for 120 an executive order instructing the IRS to not take to withhold birth LGBT advocacy group Equality Federation is all Some battles go beyond state laws and local ordi- days; and Syrian action against religious organizations, houses of control coverage to refugee resettlement REPUBLICANS its employees. Plus about local change, says executive director Rebecca nances and will need federal help, though. So-called indefinitely. worship, or individuals that endorse or oppose can- LEGISLATORS he’s called marriage Isaacs. The Equality Federation encourages its 41 “conversion therapy” of minors is one of the most didates from the pulpit. And it instructs government equality a “liberal Jan 31 Trump says HAVE TO social agenda” and state organizations (and 30,000 members) to keep bleak, most pressing issues: Tyler Deaton, senior he’ll continue to organizations to consider amending Affordable ruled against a trans it local. The national umbrella makes it possible for advisor of the American Unity Fund, a conserva- enforce a 2014 Care Act regulations requiring most employers to LISTEN—IT’S woman prisoner’s Wyoming Equality and Georgia Equality to have tive Republican LGBT advocacy organization Obama executive cover contraception in employee insurance. right to consistent order barring THEIR JOB. hormone therapy the exact same access to information and tools as started in 2013, says that “conversion therapy” is discrimination Wu says, “we remain vigilant and we will con- while incarcerated. Equality California, though their tactics will differ anything but. It causes lasting trauma, according to against LGBT people tinue to protect our community under existing working for federal May 4 Trump greatly. “One thing that’s important to remember is the American Medical Association and the Ameri- contractors, the state laws.” Deaton adds: “That is a big deal when signs his first the red states have been dealing with really tough can Psychological Association. In fact, it’s on both White House said. one person gets to say I don’t have to obey this “religious liberty” legislators and legislation for decades. So they Equality Federation and American Unity Fund’s law because of my religion. We have to stop and executive order Feb 2 Leaked draft of allowing religious already have good models on how to address these list of red-alert issues. “Conversion therapy is child executive order that think about the unintended consequences of that. organizations to attacks we’re seeing. They know things that the rest abuse” Deaton says, “and in more than 40 states, would allow anyone Because we’re not just talking about one religion— support political to discriminate based candidates, and of us don’t about how to work in tough times,” adds it’s completely legal.” Nationwide, thousands of on religious beliefs that’s religion period. And a lot of people forget thus opens the door Isaacs. Working locally also means that large and 18-and-under minors are subjected to it every year. surfaces. about the religious diversity in this country. So it’s to broader religious discrimination bills.

small elections matter, and that’s why we have to “I grew up in Alabama in a very conservative, evan- SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES a big deal to add a religious exemptions to any law.”

54 PRIDELIFE.COM | 2017 2017 | @ pridelife / Pridelifemagazine 55 Feb 7 Trump falsely gelical family, and I have friends who’ve suffered The newly appointed conservative Supreme claims that the media through and been traumatized by it,” he explains. Court Judge Neil Gorsuch doesn’t exactly bode didn’t report on the Orlando Massacre. Yet, there is actually bipartisan momentum that well for putting “religious liberty” laws behind us could help us to ban it, Isaacs says. either: His record indicates that he believes even Feb 22 Trump As of now it’s a slow process, only 6 states (Cali- corporations have the right to exercise religion. rescinds federal Department fornia, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, New Deaton, who actually supports religious freedom, of Education Mexico [as of the end of May]), and the District of albeit much more narrowly—e.g., the right of clergy transgender protection rights Columbia have bans. “But,” he says, “we really to refuse to perform LGBT ceremonies—is ardently that the Obama need Congress to act because we can’t do this state working to convince Republicans that a more lim- administration by state. It should be banned nationwide, so we’re ited “religious liberty” interpretation protects the had enacted based on Title IX working on bipartisan legislation to introduce in rights of all Americans while still protecting reli- of the Education Congress this year toward that end.” gious freedom. Amendments of 1972, a federal law prohibiting REVOKE THE LICENSE TO DISCRIMINATE. LET’S TALK ABOUT IT... discrimination on the basis of sex in The other high-alert issue experts are readying for WITH REPUBLICANS. any federally funded is the full passage of a “religious freedom” bill. In Deaton may be a minority in the Republican party, education program early February, just three days after Trump said he but the good news is, he’s not the only conservative or activity.

would “continue to enforce a 2014 executive order on our side, even though it may seem that way. More Mar 6 Second Travel [sic.] barring discrimination against LGBT people importantly, he’s not the only Republican we need Ban is signed by working for federal contractors,” LGBT and civil to be talking to. He knows, however, that many executive order. rights advocates bristled when a leaked draft of an LGBT people won’t be comfortable hashing it out Mar 28 U.S. Census executive order surfaced that would green-light with conservatives. Still, he says, your voice can Bureau removes references to federal LGBT discrimination and “tick off every- make a significant difference. questions for the thing on the religious right’s wishlist,” Wu says. “A lot of people in the LGBT community are scheduled 2020 Census that would This attempted over-reach of “religious free- extremely skeptical of Republicans, but we have to have surveyed dom” while rubber-stamping LGBT discrimination questions about isn’t new: The past two years, “religious liberty” sexual orientation.

has been a searing topic in state legislatures. Yet, Apr 7 Anti-LGBT the passage of nationwide “religious freedom,” Judge Neil Gorsuch is confirmed as Wu explains, “would provide some of the broad- BE THAT the next Supreme est exemptions for religious organizations, private SQUEAKY Court appointee. individuals, and businesses and be the largest He joined the Tenth WHEEL WHEN Circuit’s decision expansion of taxpayer discrimination that we’ve NO ONE in Hobby Lobby v. ever seen against LGBT people.” Trump didn’t Sebelius to support ELSE WILL. a corporation’s sign the order in February. But on May 4, he signed “religious liberty” an executive order instructing the IRS to not take to withhold birth action against religious organizations, houses of control coverage to REPUBLICANS its employees. Plus worship, or individuals that endorse or oppose can- LEGISLATORS he’s called marriage didates from the pulpit. And it instructs government equality a “liberal HAVE TO social agenda” and organizations to consider amending Affordable ruled against a trans Care Act regulations requiring most employers to LISTEN—IT’S woman prisoner’s cover contraception in employee insurance. right to consistent THEIR JOB. hormone therapy Wu says, “we remain vigilant and we will con- while incarcerated. tinue to protect our community under existing May 4 Trump state laws.” Deaton adds: “That is a big deal when signs his first one person gets to say I don’t have to obey this “religious liberty” law because of my religion. We have to stop and executive order allowing religious think about the unintended consequences of that. organizations to Because we’re not just talking about one religion— support political candidates, and that’s religion period. And a lot of people forget thus opens the door about the religious diversity in this country. So it’s to broader religious discrimination bills.

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overcome that because that’s exactly who we need to be talking to at the state level and federal level. They’ve won both chambers of Congress and the White House. So if we’re not talking to Republicans, we’re not talking to the decision-makers,” Deaton says. We’ve got to get uncomfortable. “I’ve seen firsthand people change their minds because of a personal relationship that they’ve developed with someone who’s gay or transgender, or is an ally, and that’s what changes the world.” Be that squeaky wheel when no one else will. Republican legislators have to listen—it’s their job. “Those who are the loudest often get the most attention,” Wu says, “and so we need to make sure that LGBT issues and all social justice issues that intersect with our community are at the top of everyone’s radar.” Being the change can be as simple as a call to a conservative legislator today. Deaton adds: “Keep it personal and tell your story to the elected official about why you value LGBT freedom. If you have a story of discrimination, know someone who’s been fired because they’re JOIN gay or been evicted because they’re trans, share Lend your skills and your voice to any one of the many critical national or local LGBT and social justice organizations like Equality Federation (join your state’s that.” And don’t fall into the trap of “I’m just one organization), National Center for Trans Equality, GLAD, HRC, ACLU, National voice,” he says. Your voice matters and people LGBT Task Force (which has a very legit online advocacy training program you within Congress are keeping track of who is con- should sign up for!), PFLAG, GLAAD, Lambda Legal, SAGE, OutRight Action tacting them. Deaton adds, timing is key, so when International. you hear pressing issues being debated that’s the time to get involved. DONATE “I feel like we don’t talk about philanthropy enough in the LGBT movement,” MAKE #LOBBYDAY THE NEW Wu says, “but through it is how we’ve made the extraordinary gains that we WEEKDAY #BRUNCH have in the past few decades.” Whether it’s a large or small gift, to a large WE FOCUS ON HIV “Some people have decided to do something active or small organization, “the most important gift is a sustaining monthly gift because that gives us the ability to plan ahead. I think it’s the most powerful every day,” Isaacs adds: Today you call a member of philanthropic tool that our community has.” Congress about a particular piece of legislation; on TO HELP YOU FOCUS ON your day off, meet up with friends to go on a Lobby Day to your State Capitol; over the weekend, donate SHOP HRC keeps detailed track of all the stores that protect LGBT workplace rights. to an advocacy organization and get up to speed Shop at places like Nike, Target, Kroger, Abercrombie + Fitch, Amazon.com, about policy; and on Monday, make a quick call and Nordstrom to name a few, when you have to buy that new pair of slip-ons, during your lunch break to a legislator. groceries, home goods, and gadgets. Choose from brands that have your back. Deaton says getting and staying involved is hrc.org/buyersguide “worth it is because we’re protecting LGBT youth; we’re saving people’s jobs, preventing people from REPORT being kicked out of their homes, from discrimi- If you or someone you know has been discriminated against contact GLAD or nation; and we’re standing with them.” Isaacs any of the other LGBT legal organizations. explains, “Every piece of activism you can do is really important and it counts. Plus legislatures are used to [citizens coming to their offices]. RUN FOR OFFICE They actually expect you to come. So knowing that you have access to your representative and VOTE AskTODAY your doctor if a medicine made by Gilead is right for you. that they’re supposed to be accountable to you is really empowering.” BE THE CHANGE onepillchoices.com 56 PRIDELIFE.COM | 2017 © 2015 Gilead Sciences, Inc. All rights reserved. UNBC1851 03/15

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With his rockstar good looks and a voice that combines iconic growls with jaw-dropping vibratos, it’s safe to say one thing about Adam Lambert—he will definitely rock you.

If you were looking for somebody to step into Freddie Mercury’s retro sneakers, you couldn’t find a better candidate than Adam Lambert. The 35-year-old San Diego, California, native first came to popularity almost a decade ago when he auditioned for American Idol. Since then, the out-and-proud singer has released three full-length albums, a live disc, and a handful of EPs; has appeared on dozens of TV shows, including Glee and Fox’s remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show; and, this summer, is stepping out on the road again as the frontman for Queen, one of the most iconic rock bands of all time. We caught up with the singer as he prepped for the upcoming tour.

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With his rockstar good looks and a voice that combines iconic growls with jaw-dropping vibratos, it’s safe to say one thing about Adam Lambert—he will definitely rock you.

PL17_Feat_Adam_BG_CP.indd 58 5/24/17 9:11 PM PL17_Feat_Adam_BG_CP.indd 59 5/24/17 9:11 PM “IT WOULD BE KIND OF • Cover PRETENTIOUS TO SAY I LIKE I FEEL LIKE I KNOW Congrats on ticket sales so far! [FREDDIE]. BUT I FEEL Coming from the pop world, I’ve THE FIRST TIME The show is selling out everywhere dabbled in EDM, I’ve dabbled in Adam looks back on… and adding dates. That’s got to MORE AND MORE LIKE I rock. I’ve worked in all these dif- ...his first Pride feel good. ferent genres—and then I look at a WISH I HAD KNOWN HIM.” It was 12 years ago, when I first moved “Thanks, I’m really excited to start band like Queen. They didn’t stay to West Hollywood. Some pop star getting ready for it—to get back boxed into one sound. I think that’s performed—I honestly can’t remember into the zone, you know. The show really limiting. So, that being said, who—but I was just blown away by is demanding, so it’ll be fun to get I’m really excited about what I’ve everybody out on the street. It was such a great showing of community. my endurance back up. I’ve done it been working on. I feel like I’m plenty of times, but I’m the sort of really charged up and I’m getting ...the first album he ever bought person—I’m so goal-oriented and this momentum to kind of explore I got two on the same trip—Wilson Phillips and Mariah Carey’s Emotions. project-oriented—I really like having Queen is that their catalog is so Adam on a slightly different sound than what Two classics! something like this to work toward.” diverse. You know, they’ve really stage with where I’ve been before. And it’s fun legendary explored so many different genres because I feel like I’m tapping into ...his first car When do rehearsals start? Queen It was a white Volvo station wagon—it with their songs. So it just depends what comes most naturally to me, “June. Truthfully, we don’t need a lot guitarist was an ’87, I think, with vinyl beige on what I’m feeling; what I want Brian May. and finding something new—but also of rehearsal. We know all the songs. interior. [Laughs] to express, you know. If I want to something that was there all along, if We’ve been doing this for about five ...the first time he felt successful be aggressive and tough, there are that make sense? years off-and-on, so it really comes When I got cast in the national tour of songs for that. If I want to be silly down to taking the time to do the It does, totally. Is there any time Wicked. That was a big step for me. and flamboyant, there are songs for And then Idol was huge, obviously. technical rehearsals to make sure frame for the new project? that. And then there are songs with Then my real milestone post-Idol was all the pieces are coming together. I have no idea, honestly. It might deep emotional drama. I mean, they putting out an album and getting not Lights, sounds, stage, all that stuff. be after tour or it might be before. only a hit single but also a Grammy really run the whole range of emo- That’s actually going to be more When it’s right, I just want to get the nomination. And then this Queen tions, so it would be impossible to complex than the actual music for music out there. So, whatever that thing. I mean those are probably the pick a favorite. touchstones of my career so far—so us at this point.” means, that’s what I want. It’s very things are good! What’s your connection to easy to approach the music industry How different is the show going to Freddie like at this point, after like a business and be like ‘You know, ...the first time he remembers be compared to previous tours? hearing a Queen song learning the ins and outs of his I want to make a product that many, “That’s a big focus for us because Watching Wayne’s World. I just songs so carefully? many people will enjoy.’ And some- we’re all very excited about revamp- remember hearing “Bohemian I think it would be kind of preten- times that’s the state of pop music Rhapsody” for the first time and ing the set, the order that we do tious to say I like I feel like I know and there’s value in that. You want to being like—what is that? [Laughs] certain songs, and the arrangements him. But I feel more and more like I be able to reach out and connect with It changed my life. of songs. We’ll also probably dip into wish I had known him. I keep learn- as many people as you possibly can. some songs that we haven’t done that people associate with important ESSENTIAL ADAM ing more about him and hearing new But on the other side of the equation, together in the past. Different clas- times in their lives or good memories Channel your inner Glambert and stream or download why the Trump administration is this playlist of some of his top solo tracks stories all the time from Brian and there’s also being authentic to your- sics from the Queen catalog. And also from their past. So there’s a lot of taking time to pull us backward on 1. “Whataya Want from Me?” Roger. I think the strongest connec- self and doing something that makes just giving everything a different nostalgia playing these shows, which so many issues instead of pushing us 2. “Ghost Town” tion I have to him is looking at the you happy. And I feel like that’s sort visual context overall. We’re com- is a wonderful thing to tap into.” forward in a positive way. It feels like 3. “Aftermath” (Billboard remix) songs he wrote and trying to dive of the headspace I’m in right now. ing up with some new ideas, and the a waste of their energy, and it’s detri- Do you see a lot of repeat faces? 4. “Another Lonely Night” into the emotional subtext of them, I’m really trying to, first and fore- stage and set have been reworked, so mental to basic human rights. Take “There are definitely some die-hard 5. “For Your Entertainment” like, what did he want the audience most, do it for myself. And hopefully it’ll be different all around.” transgender bathroom rights. I just fans, yes. I see familiar faces all the 6. “Ring of Fire” (Glam Nation live) to feel with this song? What was he because it’s something that feels true don’t get going back on that. It just What are the crowds typically like time. It makes me smile. I try to 7. “If I Had You” going through? That’s sort of a sacred and feels real, it will connect. doesn’t make sense. All kids should when you’re playing these massive make a lot of eye contact with the 8. “Mad World” place to be, singing the songs that he Outside of music, you also spend be treated fairly and equally and Queen shows? audience—it kind of keeps things 9. “Better Than I Know Myself” wrote on stage and attempting to do a lot of time in the press and on with respect. And in order to cre- “Amazing! They really are. I mean, fresh. And, with those die-hards it’s 10. “Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? them justice. social media talking about politics ate a safe space for a child there are you’re talking about audience mem- a knowing look, like, ‘Hey, good to (Hot Patootie Bless My Soul)” Outside of the work with Queen, and LGBT issues. We’re obviously some things that we have to be aware bers in some cases who have been see you again.’ ” you’ve also been hinting on social living in a crazy time. How are of. If a child identifies as trans, let’s fans of the band since they started. Do you have a favorite song media that you’re working on your you feeling about where the make their situation as easy as pos- So it’s people that have had Queen as to perform? own new album. You even sent out country is at? sible. Why make it harder for them? a part of their lives for so many years. I don’t think I could pick a favor- a pic recording with Nile Rodgers Honestly, it’s a fucking nightmare. I That’s terrible. It’s torture. And the And there are so many gigantic songs ite. The thing that’s brilliant about recently. How is that project going? mean, I just don’t quite understand same thing goes for adults who are

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It was such a great showing of community. my endurance back up. I’ve done it been working on. I feel like I’m plenty of times, but I’m the sort of really charged up and I’m getting ...the first album he ever bought person—I’m so goal-oriented and this momentum to kind of explore I got two on the same trip—Wilson Phillips and Mariah Carey’s Emotions. project-oriented—I really like having Queen is that their catalog is so Adam on a slightly different sound than what Two classics! something like this to work toward.” diverse. You know, they’ve really stage with where I’ve been before. And it’s fun legendary explored so many different genres because I feel like I’m tapping into ...his first car When do rehearsals start? Queen It was a white Volvo station wagon—it with their songs. So it just depends what comes most naturally to me, “June. Truthfully, we don’t need a lot guitarist was an ’87, I think, with vinyl beige on what I’m feeling; what I want Brian May. and finding something new—but also of rehearsal. We know all the songs. interior. [Laughs] to express, you know. If I want to something that was there all along, if We’ve been doing this for about five ...the first time he felt successful be aggressive and tough, there are that make sense? years off-and-on, so it really comes When I got cast in the national tour of songs for that. If I want to be silly down to taking the time to do the It does, totally. Is there any time Wicked. That was a big step for me. and flamboyant, there are songs for And then Idol was huge, obviously. technical rehearsals to make sure frame for the new project? that. And then there are songs with Then my real milestone post-Idol was all the pieces are coming together. I have no idea, honestly. It might deep emotional drama. I mean, they putting out an album and getting not Lights, sounds, stage, all that stuff. be after tour or it might be before. only a hit single but also a Grammy really run the whole range of emo- That’s actually going to be more When it’s right, I just want to get the nomination. And then this Queen tions, so it would be impossible to complex than the actual music for music out there. So, whatever that thing. I mean those are probably the pick a favorite. touchstones of my career so far—so us at this point.” means, that’s what I want. It’s very things are good! What’s your connection to easy to approach the music industry How different is the show going to Freddie like at this point, after like a business and be like ‘You know, ...the first time he remembers be compared to previous tours? hearing a Queen song learning the ins and outs of his I want to make a product that many, “That’s a big focus for us because Watching Wayne’s World. I just songs so carefully? many people will enjoy.’ And some- we’re all very excited about revamp- remember hearing “Bohemian I think it would be kind of preten- times that’s the state of pop music Rhapsody” for the first time and ing the set, the order that we do tious to say I like I feel like I know and there’s value in that. You want to being like—what is that? [Laughs] certain songs, and the arrangements him. But I feel more and more like I be able to reach out and connect with It changed my life. of songs. We’ll also probably dip into wish I had known him. I keep learn- as many people as you possibly can. some songs that we haven’t done that people associate with important ESSENTIAL ADAM ing more about him and hearing new But on the other side of the equation, together in the past. Different clas- times in their lives or good memories Channel your inner Glambert and stream or download why the Trump administration is this playlist of some of his top solo tracks stories all the time from Brian and there’s also being authentic to your- sics from the Queen catalog. And also from their past. So there’s a lot of taking time to pull us backward on 1. “Whataya Want from Me?” Roger. I think the strongest connec- self and doing something that makes just giving everything a different nostalgia playing these shows, which so many issues instead of pushing us 2. “Ghost Town” tion I have to him is looking at the you happy. And I feel like that’s sort visual context overall. We’re com- is a wonderful thing to tap into.” forward in a positive way. It feels like 3. “Aftermath” (Billboard remix) songs he wrote and trying to dive of the headspace I’m in right now. ing up with some new ideas, and the a waste of their energy, and it’s detri- Do you see a lot of repeat faces? 4. “Another Lonely Night” into the emotional subtext of them, I’m really trying to, first and fore- stage and set have been reworked, so mental to basic human rights. Take “There are definitely some die-hard 5. “For Your Entertainment” like, what did he want the audience most, do it for myself. And hopefully it’ll be different all around.” transgender bathroom rights. I just fans, yes. I see familiar faces all the 6. “Ring of Fire” (Glam Nation live) to feel with this song? What was he because it’s something that feels true don’t get going back on that. It just What are the crowds typically like time. It makes me smile. I try to 7. “If I Had You” going through? That’s sort of a sacred and feels real, it will connect. doesn’t make sense. All kids should when you’re playing these massive make a lot of eye contact with the 8. “Mad World” place to be, singing the songs that he Outside of music, you also spend be treated fairly and equally and Queen shows? audience—it kind of keeps things 9. “Better Than I Know Myself” wrote on stage and attempting to do a lot of time in the press and on with respect. And in order to cre- “Amazing! They really are. I mean, fresh. And, with those die-hards it’s 10. “Whatever Happened to Saturday Night? them justice. social media talking about politics ate a safe space for a child there are you’re talking about audience mem- a knowing look, like, ‘Hey, good to (Hot Patootie Bless My Soul)” Outside of the work with Queen, and LGBT issues. We’re obviously some things that we have to be aware bers in some cases who have been see you again.’ ” you’ve also been hinting on social living in a crazy time. How are of. If a child identifies as trans, let’s fans of the band since they started. Do you have a favorite song media that you’re working on your you feeling about where the make their situation as easy as pos- So it’s people that have had Queen as to perform? own new album. You even sent out country is at? sible. Why make it harder for them? a part of their lives for so many years. I don’t think I could pick a favor- a pic recording with Nile Rodgers Honestly, it’s a fucking nightmare. I That’s terrible. It’s torture. And the And there are so many gigantic songs ite. The thing that’s brilliant about recently. How is that project going? mean, I just don’t quite understand same thing goes for adults who are

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in the same situation. If someone is identifying as a certain gender, why would you force them to go into the opposite gender’s bathroom? That’s just creating an uncomfortable situation for everyone. It all comes down to fear of the unknown, in my mind. Where do you think things will go from here? Ultimately, I’m still hopeful for the future. We’re dealing with a lot of negativity right now; it’s a very tense climate. But I’m hopeful that within the next four years a counter culture appears, and we don’t let this happen again. I’m hoping that people see that together we can contribute, we can make a change, and we can prevent small-minded, backward individu- Queen’s on Australian X-Factor, and your of clothes that my parents would als from ever running this country. upcoming contestant won the show. What keep up in our attic and it was meant We’ve just got to wake up and make 2017 tour was that experience like? includes just for Halloween. Except, once sure it doesn’t happen again. I really loved it. And I have to say, more than I figured out that I could climb the You said once in an interview that I kind of had a feeling I would. You 50 stops ladder and pull the box down when- around you considered yourself a post-gay know, when I was a kid, I was in the globe ever I wanted, it was dress-up all the man working in a pre-gay indus- a children’s theater group—a big between time. So I was playing with Mom’s try. Do you still feel that way? group with around 200 kids. And as now and makeup and Dad’s suits even back You know, I’ve seen a lot of prog- I got older, I became a student direc- year’s end. then. So really, nothing’s actually ress in the past couple years. But tor within the group. I used to take changed except my budget. [Laughs] then again, it’s all kind of related the younger kids and show them the I love clothing, and I always gravitate to the political and social situation dance parts and break down music toward the left-of-center stuff, you we’re in right now. When Obama for them and help them with their know, the stuff that’s a little over was voted into office, his messag- scenes; things like that. Being a men- the top. ing was all positive and hopeful and tor on X-Factor reminded me of the You do it well... geared toward moving forward and joy that I got from doing that. It felt Thanks. I’m definitely not afraid of opening people’s minds and making like being a teenager again. fashion. I think my look and what I progress. All those things, they have Whether you’re on stage with gravitate toward has evolved over a ripple effect. So yes, I do feel like Queen or just out on your own, your time. When I first came out on the being gay and in the music industry fashion is always on point. How scene, I was coming from theater and for a while was sort of an uphill battle important is good style to your life? obsessed with the glam rock era, so for me. And now I don’t want to lose I’ve always loved playing dress-up. I kind of wanted everything to feel the progress we’ve made. Now more [Laughs] That’s the bottom line. I like a costume. I still love all that, but than ever I feel like it’s really impor- mean, when I was a kid I had a box now I look at what’s on the runways, tant to dig my heels in and assert I look at trends, I try to see what exactly who I am, one hundred per- designers are doing and see where cent, without any apologies, without my preferences fit in. There have any explanations—without trying to FOR MORE INFORMATION been plenty of times where I look play it safe. For more on Queen and their upcoming back on pictures and I’m like, what tour, check out queenonline.com. America first got to know you on was I thinking? I looked crazy. But, To keep up with Adam, follow him American Idol. But last year, you @adamlambert on Twitter or via his hey—I went for it and I don’t live in went full circle and became a judge website, adamofficial.com. regret. So, whatever. [Laughs]

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Photographer Daniel Nicoletta has been documenting the fight for LGBT civil rights for more than 40 years. In his new book LGBT: San Francisco, he documents the rise of Pride, heroes like Harvey Milk, and the everyday men and women who helped along the way. In an exclusive talk, he looks back on his long and illustrious career.

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PL17_Feat_DanielNicoletta_v2_BG_CP.indd 64 5/24/17 7:20 PM PL17_Feat_DanielNicoletta_v2_BG_CP.indd 65 5/24/17 7:20 PM “I was really inspired by Diane Arbus when I was younger. I was accidentally exposed to her work and of course I was flabbergasted. I was closeted and there were these faces of out queers staring back at me, so that was a really great moment. But I also responded to the work. She clearly had this gift of cultivating a relationship with her subjects and that’s conveyed in a moment’s notice when you looked at her work. “My goal taking photos has always been to try to engage with a subject on the level where the soul comes forward. That’s always been my spin. I want you to relax and consider this portrait a gift to the future. Just forget about me, the conduit, you know. This is about you connecting with the person who’s going to be viewing the photo somewhere in the future. And people seem to get it. My subjects would hear that and the wheels Clockwise from top: The would start turning, and I think they celebration outside Castro were charged by the challenge—finding Camera on the night of Har- what’s inside and letting it come out. vey Milk's victorious election “When you’re out on the street at in 1977; the iconic blowing an event like a Pride people somehow tie shot; Harvey in an early automatically trust you and they’re march through San Francisco; a comfortable getting photographed and re-enactment a walk with supporters (also shot by Nicoletta) they actually get into it. They get a kick from the film Milk starring Sean out of it. I mean, don’t forget, the ’70s Penn; walking with supporters were also a highly exhibitionistic times, from Castro Street to City Hall so sometimes it didn’t take much." in 1978. Previous spread, "Faggots are fantastic," Remembering Harvey by Nicoletta. “Photographing Harvey (Milk) was a great experience. You know, he came from a theater background, so he was

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always a big ham. And I think he under- stood the gravity of photography as a tool within the world of politics. The photo of him with his tie blowing in the wind was taken when we were trying to get a perfunctory photo for his campaign brochure. He rejected it because he needed to have the tie straight—pun intended. And then we forgot about it. After he died, the negative ended up on top of a box of hundreds of loose slides, but I always remembered that the smile in that shot was good. So I went home and I printed it, and that image went out into the world in a big way. It even became the image on the stamp to honor him, so that once rejected image went through a lot before becoming one of my most well-known shots.”

His most iconic images “After I took the image with the ‘Fag- gots are Fantastic’ shirt, I became friends with the guys in the shot. One of the guys approached me and he said ‘I love that image and I want to do a postcard to send to friends.’ And I said yeah, no problem. So we looked into it and, at that point in time, the smallest number of postcards you could print was 5,000. So we did it. We figured we’d just give them to our friends or maybe sell the excess in some gift stores. But those cards took off and before long, I TO ME, A

GREAT PORTRAIT Clockwise from top: IS A A Castro Street window TRUE EXAMPLE during The Castro Street Fair in 1977; two shots of OF A 1970s-era parade attendees; DEMOCRATIC and Lily Tomlin, Sister COLLABORATION. Ed Divine, and Pristine Condition at an autograph party in 1975.

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was getting requests from every corner of the world for that image. It turned out this idea of ‘Faggots are Fantastic’ was just an idea whose time had come and people really took to it! “It took me a while to realize it, but parade pictures are also a large part of my personal body of work. And now I see there’s a compelling story there. Over the years, I would find that every time I returned to a Pride and started shooting it, it would become a kind of microcosm for me and many others of what had been happening on the ground throughout the rest of the year. So I would always kind of pull the camera out every year and shoot 15 or 16 rolls of film and it always became kind of a joy for me to see how I was changing, and how the community was changing.”

His Legacy “To me, a great portrait is a true example of a democratic collaboration. Both people have to really want it to happen. Both people have to be excited about it. It’s a really poignant moment and that’s what keeps me going. That’s what I respond to as an artist and that’s what moves me in other people’s work. “I personally am quite the cockeyed optimist, and I think Pride is really fundamental to the LGBT civil rights movement. We as a community come from a place of extraordinarily convo- luted shame that has been foisted upon us by society. So that basic impulse to transcend oppression is still there for us. To me, Pride is still very, very much a part of who I am, and for that I am very proud.”

Clockwise from top: The Angels of Light Show at Inferno Reason in 1975; more scenes from the Cas- tro Street Fair in 1983; and Castro Camera, where LGBT: San Francisco - The Daniel Nicoletta got his start as Nicoletta Photographs is published a photographer. by Reel Art Press. RRP: $60 / £40. For stockist information please visit www.reelartpress.com

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Mahmoud, who had known he was gay since he a state-funded project that launched in February was twelve, returned to Syria with his family after 2016 to provide dedicated safe housing for LGBT high school. He discovered gay life in Arabic litera- refugees in the city—the Schwulenberatung Berlin. ture and poetry. “I learned love between two men Both the center and the shelter were founded by existed and was even common, so it made me feel Stephan Jäkel, a 46-year-old gay activist. When normal, although it was criminalized,” he explains. the first waves of Syrian asylum seekers arrived, He attended university in Aleppo, where he met LGBT agencies were pressed to respond, Stephan the man who became his first boyfriend. “It was explains. “It was bureaucratic chaos. All the refugee very dangerous to try to meet men in Syria,” he groups were overwhelmed,” he says. “We had a lot of tells me. The Syrian secret police would troll pub- LGBT services in Berlin, and for refugees, but what lic areas, where they accused men of being gay in was missing was housing.” order to extort money from them. Mahmoud was Stephan says that LGBT leaders in Berlin began once confronted by police when he was sitting on to feel the pressure to respond starting in the fall a park bench with his brother. Life changed with of 2014. At that time, he explains, Berlin had some the arrival of the Internet in Syria over the next 3,000 registered individuals seeking asylum. That decade—and anonymous dating. “I had my profile figure grew five-fold to 15,000 the following year the first day,” he chuckles. That was around when and soared to 79,000 after that. He estimates that 5 THE CENTER he came out to his family. “My mother told me she to 10% of asylum seekers were LGBT. “The situation HAS SHELTERED knew I was gay,” he adds, smiling. She just urged started to become dramatic,” says Stephan. “Our 170 MEN AND him to be careful. social workers and psychologists told us about the WOMEN, AND suffering LGBT refugees were encountering: dis- Like many young Syrians, Mahmoud supported crimination, bullying, nagging, spitting, beatings. CURRENTLY HAS the non-violent 2011 Arab Spring protests against The horror stories were outrageous. “One indi- 112 RESIDENTS, the brutal Assad regime. He began to blog about vidual was spit on daily for weeks by his religious MOST FROM SYRIA LGBT rights and Assad’s crackdown on the oppo- flatmate in a camp because of his homosexuality AND IRAQ. sition, using a pseudonym. But writing quickly and nobody helped him,” Stephan recounts. “The became dangerous; his friends, both gay and in the social worker at the camp was ‘too busy’ to assist.” opposition, were arrested and tortured. The regime also began a smear outing campaign against its crit- The mounting attacks on gay refugees prompted ics. “I didn’t want to be put on TV to prove their Stephan to propose a government-sponsored LGBT homophobic campaign,” he adds. He fled to Turkey shelter to address refugees growing need for protec- in October 2011 but continued blogging. tion. At the end of 2014, the government announced Then ISIS came to Syria in 2013. “The first a plan to create several new shelters in collabora- thing they did was cut off the fingers of people tion with civil society. Stephan’s organization won who smoked, then the hands of barbers so they the first contract to start an LGBT-only shelter. Mahmoud Hassino remembers the couldn’t shave beards, and two weeks later the first The Schwulenberatung Berlin house, which moment when he knew he would have to gay killings began,” says Mahmoud, who was soon opened in March 2016, is in a gleaming, modernist leave his home in Saudi Arabia. Hassino, hearing horror stories from Syrians fleeing ISIS’s building, on a quiet residential block. It’s a far cry whose family had moved from his birth village in homophobic campaign. “Activists would report from the overcrowded rec centers and sports halls GERMANY’S RAINBOW ASYLUM Syria when he was four, was fourteen years old and these things to me but were too scared to give offi- that house many refugees across Germany. “We got on a class field trip to the Holy Mosque of Medina. cial testimonies,” he adds. “It was really difficult lucky,” Stephan admits. “The government found us Berlin’s first LGBT shelter offers safe His teachers steered the students to a public square, to document.” His activities soon attracted death this place—it’s fantastic and so necessary.” housing for refugees fleeing ISIS, where a crowd had gathered. Two men, an Indian threats from an ISIS-linked militia. “It was a mat- On the ground floor, a small security team care- homophobia—and now, neo-Nazis. and a Pakistani, had been caught having sex, the ter of time before I would be kidnapped and killed fully screens visitors. So far, there have been no students were informed, and they would be pun- for being homosexual, so I decided to leave,” he says. attempted attacks. Stephan’s team works hard to By Anne-christine d’Adesky ished. Hassino can’t recall the men’s faces, but he In June 2014 he obtained a German visa and sought assure the Schwulenberatung Berlin remains a safe vividly remembers the image of a sword raised political asylum in the country. refuge from such threats. Each floor has four bed- above the crowd. Twenty-seven years later, he still rooms equipped with metal bunk beds and bright finds it difficult to think about that day. “It was ter- Today, Mahmoud works as a counselor at a drop- furniture donated by locals, each with its own pri- rifying,” he says finally. “Just horrible. After that in center for LGBT refugees in Kreuzberg, Berlin. vate bathroom. It’s queer dorm-style living. As of beheading, I blocked out everything I was thinking With a 120-bed LGBT-only shelter in the leafy February, the center housed 86 gay men, 9 lesbians,

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third floor, there’s a small another shelter when he learned about Stephan’s dining area where volun- new center and asked to be housed there. Two teers and refuge residents months later, Baris has settled into his new life. For enjoy free daily meals. A the first time, he says, he feels himself—and “very bulletin board is covered safe” in his new home. PrideLife.com with flyers, some in Ara- Inspired by the Berlin house, another center bic or Farsi, offering bus across town has also expanded its services to tickets, German language assist LGBT refugees. The LSVD MILES center courses, art, yoga, sports was founded in 1999 to help gay migrants integrate classes, and information into German culture. Compared to Stephan’s jewel- on local gay events. “For box safe house, the building that houses the LSVD many, it’s the first time they looks a bit run down by comparison. But despite discover the gay life here,” the dim entrance, seedy burgundy carpeting, and says Stephan smiling. “It’s cramped elevator, when the door opens on the third exciting.” floor, director Jouanna Hassoun and her staff still In a corner area by a small greet every visitors with a ready smile. library, and elsewhere, Jouanna, who was born into a religious family in on sofas, young residents Lebanon, brings personal experience to her job. She gather to read, listen to spent several years in a German refugee camp as a music, and nap. Since it’s child and knows the pros and cons of asylum only opening the center has too well. “It was positive to know I was in Germany gotten a lot of media cover- and in a safe place,” she says. age, and Stephan works to The center received 1,400 visits in 2016 from The model Berlin LGBT shields residents from press interviews. “We want about 400 different LGBT refugees. Social, legal, shelter was created them to feel at home,” he says. and psychological services, plus HIV/STI-testing after rising attacks To do that, he has hired a house manager and and prevention have steadily expanded. Their against gay asylum social workers who speak Arabic, Farsi, and Rus- Café Kuchus (Suaehli-slang for “homosexual”) is seekers in German sian. They run support groups and orient clients. a popular social stop for Berlin refugees now—and refugee camps. An HIV doctor specializing in trans care makes a stepping stone for gay activists across Germany weekly house calls, and residents get psychologi- who view immigration and asylum as a key front- cal counseling. Some are traumatized, isolated, line of the broader LGBT movement. and depressed. Many are just coming out. The Back at the Schwulenberatung Berlin, Stephan day I visit, Stephan interrupts our tour to take a and his staff are also focused on longer-term call about a young gay man who’s been rushed to housing after the initial emergency landing. At a local hospital after a suicide attempt. Later that the one-year mark, the center had sheltered 170 day comes news that another young gay man who men and women, and currently has 112 residents, has been living with a boyfriend outside Berlin: He most from Syria and Iraq. All were from countries LUSIV XC E had attempted to kill himself, fearing deportation. where LGBTQ rights are under threat. “Our shelter E is nearly always full,” reports Stephan. DAILY LGBT, INTERNATIONAL, Baris Sulu, then 38, arrived at the Berlin house The success of the Berlin center has inspired in early 2016. An LGBT rights activist since 1998, other German cities to follow suit. Hannover now AND POLITICAL UPDATES FOR THE he was Turkey’s first openly gay parliamentary has a small city-run eight-bedroom flat for LGBT FIRST candidate. Baris sought asylum in Germany after refugees, while Hamburg, Cologne, and Munich ENTERTAINMENT NEWS AND GOSSIP TIME, being publicly outed and attacked in 2014 during city officials are hashing out details of their own RESIDENTS the Turkish election period by Islamist groups proposed shelters with LGBT groups. N B M and media outlets linked to the Turkish President Amid a climate of rising far-right violence, the I U TRAVEL AND WEDDING PLANNING FEEL -W L THEMSELVES— and his Justice and Development party. Baris’s Schwulenberatung Berlin remains a model safe EEKLY CO picture—and his male partner’s—were printed in haven for LGBT refugees across Europe. Looking PARENTING TIPS AND LIFESTYLE ADVICE local newspapers that identified them as “children ahead, Stephan says, “We still face a lot of problems AND SAFE of Lot” (the Biblical term ISIS uses for homosexu- and challenges and of course we made mistakes. IN THEIR als). After getting threats via social media Baris But it was not an option to do nothing—and finally Download our app and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, GooglePlus, Instagram and YouTube

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The Curator The Performer The Painter Hugh Ryan always wrote, but he never “At this point in life, I just feel like a cultural After working for years in her 20s at a really committed to making it his worker,” jokes writer and actor Jess 9-to-5 job, Maia Cruz Palileo soon realized profession. That is until eight years ago Barbagallo. “It’s my job to make art and what her life was missing. Art! “I took a The Visual Artist The Poet The Auteur when he retired from his career as a that takes many forms.” The 33-year-old part-time job on the weekends working as It’s the physicality of Monstah Black that Tommy Pico grew up on the Viejas Indian This is proving to be a very busy year for social worker following nearly a decade originally from Cato, NY—a town near an assistant to an artist,” she says.”Being immediately captivates. His collision, or Reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation. A 33-year-old filmmaker, Natalia Leite. She of service. “I’d been unable to imagine Syracuse of just under 600 people—first in his studio made me realize that I wanted “radical juxtaposition” of audio and visual resident of Brooklyn today, his writing premiered MFA, her second feature film at a life in the arts and was afraid to do it,” dove into the arts acting in high school that for myself.” Today, her paintings, art as delivered through the lens of the bridges these vastly contrasting locales. this year’s SXSW. While working the festival says Ryan, 38. “Then I realized a lot of musicals. “After that, I studied theater at drawings, and fresco-sculpted installations black male experience provokes a wide “I used to think about the rez and NYC circuit and seeking distribution, she’s the youth causes I cared so much about, NYU and right out of college I was drafted reflect an exploration of her Filipina- spectrum of emotions. Pain. Pleasure. as being separate worlds because I saw already plowing into her third feature and I could address more effectively through to join the ensemble Big Dance Theater. American hybrid heritage, with inspiration Celebration. Mourning. Like his creative myself as a different person in each,” juggling pre-production for her web series, writing and art.” Working in NYC’s downtown theater scene culled from old family photos mixed with inspirations—Prince, Grace Jones, and he says. “As I’ve gotten older and more Be Here Nowish. It’s a long way from her ever since, Barbagallo is primarily focusing recollections from her grandparents. David Bowie—the Virginia-native, born self-assured, I’ve come to realize the more The Irvington, NY, native got his MFA days as a child back in Brazil. studying the intersection of queer culture on the stage today. “This summer is all “I began inserting figures into those Reginald Ellis Crump, defies boundaries seamless I see myself, the more seamlessly “I was always making art growing up,” she and queer history. These days, research about me performing.” That means trips to landscapes,” says the 38-year-old with ease, be it as a choreographer, I can navigate my strange little world.” remembers. Today, Leite’s work mirrors her and language are his craft; and oral Portugal, Brussels, Germany, and Paris for Brooklyn College graduate and Chicago musician, or club-kid hero. His recently completed third book, Junk, personal life, which has also made it easier history his affinity—all of which have a role in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame plus native. “I play with the globalizing idea of Black’s career-defining work, a 45-minute speaks to the current state of our nation. to honor the issues that matter most to her. left Ryan busy curating a number of an adaptation of Don Delillo’s The Body the Philippines being home despite me film and soundtrack titled, The Cotton Pico describes it as break-up poem Part of that mission includes a strategic historic projects. At NYU’s Fales Library, Artist at NYC’s Abrons Theater. growing up here and never living there. My Project, is what he describes as a “meeting in couplets that addresses themes of decision to create content that she calls he’s presenting a show about symbolic What inspires the uber-prolific artist today? work is also representational, with brown of Erykah Badu and Bjork in the living destabilization. “It examines what actually “inclusively curious.” For example, when language. At the Brooklyn Historical Poet Stacy Szymaszek, for one. She was people in the forefront. It examines themes room of Parliament Funkadelic.” Mashing happens to your identity when it’s robbed working on Be Here Nowish, she decided Society, there’s a show about the Brooklyn Barbagallo’s mentor during Queer-Arts like immigration and assimilation—how pain with revelry into a journey that unfolds of a pillar of security,” he says. to make it a satirical comedy, which, waterfront’s queer history. Ryan’s also inaugural year. After that, the list is long those things can disappear. I hope my in front of people is Black’s attempt to “made the story more accessible to people Next up? A collaboration on a screenplay. publishing a book entitled When Brooklyn Jess says: “A need to support myself in work helps them to not disappear.” chronicle the black American struggle. who are not queer,” says Leite. “I try to not And aptly so, Pico is already digging Was Queer, with St. Martin’s Press. a costly world, curiosity, and the desire With Queer-Arts mentor and artist, Chitra “My art remixes images and sounds into the meat of his fourth book, titled just preach to the converted.” His biggest inspiration? “Like most folks to have new experiences and come Ganesh, Palileo gained both a role model through the lens a of cis-gendered African- Food. “I don’t know if I believe in creative As for the future, Leite promises she has interested in queer history, I was initially into contact with new people and new and a dear friend. “It’s not often you find American queer male,” he says. “It’s my inspiration as much as I believe in having many more stories to tell. “Each has its drawn to the subject by a desire to find ideas. Being contained inside a formal someone to have your back in the art attempt to build a fanciful, mythological, a strong work ethic. I’ll get up at 7:30 a.m. own message and journey—most centered other people like me. However, the longer structure—the theater—in order to play world,” she says. “It also expanded my abstract fairytale based on the grueling on a Saturday and haul my ass out in the around the experience of being a woman I do this research, the more I am driven by and investigate other modes of being. community of queer artists. I’d worried that truths of American history. It’s a wolf in rain to my office space, sit down, and stay and an outsider. When I’m working discovering dissimilar ideas about sexuality Doing theater is the opportunity to test out doing this program meant my work had to sheep’s clothing. It sparkles, it turns you there. It’s mortifying, it hurts, it’s horrible, on a new project, I become obsessed and gender. 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August 1993 York public schools. We were targeting Cardinal ACT UP to the leader of New York’s Catholics who refused Paris John O’Connor, a true homophobe who’d repeat- to give clean needles to drug addicts with AIDS. I edly blocked LGBT groups from participating in IS HERE. wondered if those who’d planned to do CD inside Outside the metro, I’m lost in the streets, never an the annual Saint Patrick’s Day parade. He’s been a WE’RE the church were already arrested, maybe in an ear- THE unpleasant activity. Finally, I’m the one who’s spot- nightmare in this epidemic. lier service. Where was everyone? Where was ACT ted. Belle shouts to me from a café doorway. Before That day I hadn’t fully committed to civil dis- HERE. UP? I saw a few familiar faces. Everyone was quiet. any ACT UP action, the group meets at a café to obedience, which had been planned for months. My heart was pounding. That much I remember. plan strategy and finesse details; afterward, they There were dozens of affinity groups who planned YOU CAN’T There was that moment of truth when I realized I retire to another café to discuss how it went. I like to block Fifth Avenue—the nightmare scenario of might have to drop my reporter’s role. As much as I the French method of protest. Caffeinated direct urban cabbies. It was after Thanksgiving and before IGNORE disliked getting arrested and never looked forward action. But nothing too rushed. Christmas and I remember I had a lot of work. AIDS. to getting locked up, staying silent was no longer an POX There are familiar faces from a previous AIDS Maybe writing for OutWeek? Can’t recall. Life’s option. At the same time I felt bad for my neighbors conference, and they’re grinning at me. I real- a blur. I know I hadn’t committed myself to any THE WHOLE in the pew. After all, they’d probably just come into ize Belle and I have become a gossip item. They affinity group but was keeping track of my friends the church to pray, though some were tourists. I felt know things about me and I wonder what they are, in the Marys. My plan was to watch them do their WORLD IS them freeze when I finally stood up. They all looked what they know about our affair, the state of our bit, maybe slip into the church, see how O’Connor straight ahead, refusing to meet my eye, following romance. The world is small; the world of AIDS responded. He’d declared ACT UP a moral enemy. WATCHING! the cardinal’s example. I hadn’t rehearsed what activism even smaller. All roads once led to Rome— Worse, the antiabortion group Operation Rescue I’d say, but there I was, without a bullhorn but pro- LOVER I smile back at my new friends—now they lead to was coming to support the cardinal. jecting. Loudly enough, I hoped, to make O’Connor ACT UP. hear me. I’m not planning on When I got there, I learned that O’Connor had ACT UP is here. We’re here. You can’t ignore getting arrested today. secured a restraining order barring the action. AIDS. The whole world is watching! It’s a picket action; I don’t Great. He’d raised the stakes. The first of the affin- Behind me, to the left, near the back, I heard think CD—civil disobedi- ity groups was already blocking the avenue, and other protesters chanting too. The church needs ence—is on the menu. But more were waiting, planning to block it in waves. to support sound prevention programs including things can happen at these ACT UP’s Ray Navarro, who was getting sicker condoms and needle exchange. You need to stop protests. I’m not ready for already then, was dressed up as Jesus. He was act- demonizing people with AIDS. Educate, don’t dis- that now. I’ve had my fill ing as a host and commentator for DIVA TV, doing criminate! of sit-ins in recent months interviews with activists and the crowd. Ray really ACT UP was there, after all. I was ACT UP too, and I’m on a work vaca- looked a lot like Christ. I say looked because he died wasn’t I? I’d stopped being a reporter, once again. tion this trip. Of course a year later, just after our Day of Desperation action, There were only a few of us but we were loud. The it could happen; it’s hap- if memory serves me. people in the church were shocked, captured by the pened before when I only At Stop the Church I ran into Robert Hilferty, a drama. Sit down! O’Connor thundered. ACT UP! planned to cover an action filmmaker friend, theater buff, and arts journalist. We thundered back. Fight AIDS! as a reporter. I’m not sure He was really excited by Ray’s outfit. The drama, how the French judges the drama, he’d say about our actions, loving it It took the security guards quite a few minutes to treat a CD action. So far, all. He was filming for a documentary he’d made reach us. Some dodged the security guards rushing with the help of ACT UP’s about the protest. Are you getting arrested, Anne? in, the police. I opted for a dignified exit, sort of. I Anne-christine d’Adesky is a lesbian author, lawyers, I’ve been able to clear the myriad protest he teased me. You know you will. Watch out. Those didn’t sit down and get dragged down the aisle as journalist, and longtime activist who covered HIV/ misdemeanors off my record. I’ve never spent long Catholic girls bite. some did. I was forcefully escorted out of the cathe- AIDS in the 1990s as a columnist for OutWeek, in jail. I continue to pass as a model citizen, at least It was so bitterly cold; the church was a little dral. In no time, my hands were cuffed, the plastic health editor for Out, and contributor to The on paper. warmer inside. I slipped into a pew midway down cutting off circulation. But I felt exuberant, justi- Nation, The Village Voice, and other publications. Waiting for the picket to start, I recall the Stop the aisle before the sermon and communion. Word THERE fied. O’Connor’s policies were wrong; the church She was an early member of ACT UP in New York the Church demonstration. December 1989. It was, some ACT UPers had planned a holy wafer was on the wrong side of this battle. I still felt bad for and a cofounder of the Lesbian Avengers protest took place at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New action of some kind. So I waited as O’Connor began WERE the churchgoers, but, I rationalized, at least they’d group. Her forthcoming memoir, The Pox Lover: An York, organized by ACT UP and WHAM (Women’s to preach. Then realized, with disbelief, that he just gotten to witness an important event, a historic Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris, is out in Health Action Mobilization), a feminist group. planned to ignore the whole thing. Ignore ACT UP? ONLY A FEW event, and to hear our demands. June from the University of Wisconsin Press. A good example of when I couldn’t sit quietly, lit- Ignore the thousands massed outside and the TV And some had listened. Exiting the church, I Act Up It is based on her diaries of the decade. erally; it was too damn cold. How could that be cameras, as if one could? The gall, I thought. This OF US BUT heard the swell of people shouting, wolf-whistling, Paris Projection The Pox Lover is her fourth book. almost three years ago? Feels like yesterday. Five man really couldn’t give a shit! He’s fine to see gay clapping. Not only the ACT UP crowd, but ordinary 1.12.1993 by WE WERE A. Maniglier and thousand of us showed up to protest the Catholic men die. I looked around for ACT UP, straining to passersby, cheering.

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On behalf of the Board of InterPride we are pleased to present the 2017 issue of PrideLife magazine—the official magazine of InterPride. VICE PRESIDENTS OF OPERATIONS This year’s international theme embraces the WorldPride 2017 theme of “Viva la Vida,” meaning “live life.” Since its inception, our movement has been about the LGBTQ+ commu- Frank Van Dalen Marsha H. Levine J. Andrew Baker Dallas Barnes Chrissy Taylor nity’s insistence to be able to live our lives—without compromise. Over the years we have, and continue to, stand tall in the face of oppression and discrimination. And today, in these uncertain and perilous times, this is more important than ever. InterPride celebrates and VICE PRESIDENT MEMBER SERVICES values the lives of all LGBTQ+ people around the world and defends the right to live life, free Sherri Rase from discrimination. Viva la Vida. TREASURER SECRETARY InterPride, the International Association of Pride Organizers, strives to promote Linda DeMarco Ron deHarte Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender visibility internationally, through conferences, communication, education, and Pride events. Our members span six continents with a combined reach of more than fifteen million people. While most of our members are based in the United States, we work closely with our International Pride Partners—EPOA (the European Pride Organisers Association) and FCP (Fierté Canada Pride). These relationships allow us to expand our reach to LGBTQ+ communities around the world, enabling InterPride to be a global Pride organization. REGIONAL DIRECTORS InterPride relies primarily on membership fees and donations to fund our organization. We, in turn, distribute these funds in two major ways: through the Solidarity Fund, which Jorge Solorio Chris Morehead Mark Monk David Staeglich assists emerging Pride projects in countries throughout the world operating in hostile Shannon Lank Dave Wait Brandon Amyot Vincent Boileau-Autin environments; and the Scholarship Fund, which provides financial assistance for members from around the globe to attend our Annual General Meeting and World Conference. Mike Iacono James Hermansen-Parker Luis “Conti” Rivera Juan Carlos Alonso Reguero Whether the event is small or large, new or established, Prides help build and enrich com- Michael Goodnow Kevin Calhoun Andy Train Anthanasios Vlachogiannis munities and increase visibility and acceptance for LGBTQ+ people in both large cities and Richard Brethour-Bell Jason Gilmore Lars Henriksen Emmanuel Temores small towns. We applaud the Board, Members, and Volunteers of all Prides who work tire- lessly to make Pride happen. Thank you for your work and your contribution to the global Paul Huddleston Sylvain Bruni-Fowler Christian Gerdes Paul Savage Pride movement. Jaron Turnbow Tyler Evertsen Stefan Baier We invite you to join and make us stronger, adding your valuable energy and ideas to the Marcy Carr Uwe Hörner global Pride movement. Visit our website at interpride.org to find a Pride near you, to attend an event or help plan one, to find out how your Pride organization can join InterPride, or to make a donation to support our work. We hope you’re able to join us in both in Spain this summer, when Madrid hosts their larg- NON-BOARD SERVING CO-CHAIRS est event to date: WorldPride Madrid 2017; and in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, for the 2017 InterPride Annual General Meeting and World Conference in October. Alan Reiff Jaime Carrillo Doug Kerr Michele Irimia-Bernabe Viva la Vida, Paul Sanders Ernie Yuen

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What is InterPride? between our members. WorldPride, During the past 29 years, owned and licensed by InterPride, Pride organizations from InterPride is the International is held every couple of years by almost every continent have Association of Pride Organizers. a member organization. Each participated in InterPride’s Our members produce Pride WorldPride host vies for the right to annual conference. events all over the world, to hold the global Human Rights and celebrate the Lesbian, Gay, Pride event. Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex about the movement as PrideRadar is a world map owned, (LGBTI) cultures and communities. a whole, we conducted a produced, and maintained by InterPride ties Pride together InterPride. Listing all Prides around survey with more than around the globe. the world (currently more than one 200 of those groups. This About thousand included), PrideRadar is survey produced a lot of new What’s the vision; what’s a global societal, social, political, information about the state and event calendar. the mission? of the Pride movement. The Our vision is a world where there InterPride has two financial support biggest finding related to is full cultural, social, and legal projects. Our scholarship fund is distribution of Prides around InterPride equality for all. specifically for members to attend the globe. It is obvious to say InterPride’s mission is Empowering our AGM & World Conference. Pride Organizations Worldwide. The Solidarity Fund assists Prides that in areas where homo- in hostile environments to realize InterPride exists to promote sexuality is decriminalized, their dreams and support their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and non-discrimination laws local LGBTI community members. Transgender Pride on an Application forms for both funds are in place, and the rule of international level; to increase can be found on the front page of law applies, Pride events networking and communication our website. are most commonly found. among Pride Organizations; and to encourage diverse communities Population density also to hold and attend Pride events Where is the next seems to plays an important and to act as a source of education. WorldPride? role, with larger locations InterPride is a voice for the LGBTI WorldPride 2017 will be held in more likely to sponsor them. community around the world. Madrid, Spain. WorldPride 2019 will Our surprising discovery: We stand up for inequality and be held in New York City coinciding an increase in the overall fight injustice everywhere. Our with the 50th anniversary of the The State of the Pride number of Pride events in member organizations share the Stonewall Riots. Past WorldPride latest news so that we are able to celebrations were held in Rome, smaller cities and countries. react internationally and make a Movement Around the World Italy (2000); Jerusalem, Israel For example, in Sweden we significant difference. (2006); London, England (2012); The good news: Pride events are on the rise across the globe! counted more than 50 Pride and Toronto, Canada (2014). by Frank Van Dalen events, including many What is a “Pride event”? in less populated areas. Pride events celebrate the LGBTI International Outreach: Pride events—whether they invisible, or to be legislated This means our message is community and can include Fierté Canada Pride (FCP) and take the form of celebrations, out of existence is growing. spreading, even outside of parades, marches, rallies, festivals, the European Pride Organisers protests, or marches—serve There is no strict large urban areas. art festivals, or other cultural Association (EPOA) are InterPride’s activities dedicated to people International Pride Partners in to raise the visibility of the definition of what exactly identifying as LGBTI and/or other Canada and Europe respectively. LGBTI community. Each constitutes a Pride event. One often-heard criticism of emerging sexual identities. Members of FCP and EPOA event is also a profound In general, a Pride event is Pride is its commercializa- are automatically members of political statement. On at least partially open to tion. It’s argued that Pride What does InterPride do? InterPride. every continent, local Pride the general public and lasts should be about remember- InterPride accomplishes its mission organizers and brave activ- for one or more days, with a hostile) Prides do not always ing what we didn’t have until with Regional Conferences and an How can we/I join? ists organize Pride events variety of activities and, in fit this description. In these recently, what has yet to Annual General Meeting (AGM) We’d be delighted to have you to continue this movement most cases, involves some cases, we look at the event be done, and how we might and World Conference. At the join InterPride as a member year after year. form of a parade. Each Pride in a more flexible way and support our global family. AGM & World Conference, organization or as a volunteer to InterPride members network and support the work of Prides around These gatherings show the event we track has been determine if we can qualify Or, critics wonder, why can’t collaborate on an international the world! Contact us through world that “We are here, we scrutinized on the basis of the event as a Pride event. it be free, do it yourself, and scale and take care of the business our regional directors (see the list are Queer, and we will not this definition. Nevertheless In recent estimates, we community led? Yet, many of the organization. online at interpride.org) or via social accept second-class citizen- we’re aware that in some sit- have identified almost Prides struggle with the Regional conferences are organized media (Facebook, Twitter, ship!” The determination of uations (generally speaking, 1,000 Pride events tak- financial side of organizing, annually in North America, or Instagram). Europe, and the United Kingdom the global LGBTI population in areas where acceptance ing place across the globe which is why many Prides to strengthen local relationships not to simply go away, to be is low and governments are each year. To find out more are increasingly dependant

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filled with booths, tents, and a on corporate funding. Here’s concert stage. Pride Park will offer education presentations what we found in our survey: and entertainment during the day When asked whether fund- and evening. Inclusive events for ing comes from community families, children, and seniors are based companies, it’s strik- also scheduled. ing that all Prides in Canada In addition, the highlight of any and the United States answer WorldPride is the Human Rights Conference. Madrid’s takes place this question negatively. This June 26-28 at the Autonomous is in contrast to what we see University of Madrid, which is in countries like Mexico, easily reached by metro. Each France, and Germany, where day will be filled with panels, the majority of funding workshops, lectures, and keynote speakers. Extensive international comes from LGBTI-affili- outreach has been done to ated companies. guarantee a wide selection of Another big finding topics and people to inspire and from our research: Prides empower attendees. cannot happen without at Special attention is being given to least some kind of support the trans communities in Central from national authorities. America. This marginalized population often goes without Whether that involves PREVIEWING protection from local police for permits for the use of public investigation of hate crimes— spaces or to guarantee the WORLDPRIDE 2017 including murders. Our goal is security of the participants, to bring to light this egregious An inside look at this year’s celebration in Madrid By Alan Reiff this assistance is vitally situation and to help be the catalyst for change in this region of the important, according to world. Confirmed speakers include Pride organizers we spoke In 2000, the first WorldPride Lesbian, Gays, Transsexuals, and President José Luis Rodríguez to in Germany, France, the took place in Rome, Italy. The city Bisexuals Collective); FELGTG Zapatero of Spain, Prime Minister was never the same again. I have (Spanish: Federación Estatal de USA, Canada, and Mexico of Iceland Johanna Sigurdardottir, been privileged to be involved with Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales V.P. of the European Parliament every WorldPride since: Jerusalem y Bisexuales; English: National Ulrike Lunacek, and the Minister of With the exponential growth 2004, London 2012, Toronto 2014, Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Civil Liberties & Consumer Affairs of the Pride movement in and now Madrid 2017. I have Transsexuals, and Bisexuals); the of Malta to name just a few. recent years, new opportuni- a unique opportunity to be the Mayor’s Office of Madrid and City WorldPride Committee Co-Chair Hall; and the Regional Government Each WorldPride has helped ties are constantly arising, for InterPride, and an advisor and of Madrid. If you know anything change the world in some way. including the possibility for friend to the producers of the next about how Spanish politics works, Global visibility can never be a collaboration of Pride events World Pride, AEGAL (Asociación just getting this done has been a bad thing! WorldPride sends the message “We are everywhere, Pride Down South around the globe. With de Empresas y Profesionales para major accomplishment. The Pride don’t worry—you are not alone.” From political revolutions to sweeping festivals, Latin millions of people visiting Gays y Lesbianas, Bisexuales Parade/March is expected to y Transexuales de Madrid y su see numbers as high as 3 million The goal of all Pride organizers to American Pride reveals itself in a kaleidoscope of forms Pride events on nearly every create safe spaces to be “OUT” in Comunidad). As such, I am this year. It goes from Atoche to By Emmanuel Temores continent, we are a move- humbled and honored to have had Colon starting at 6pm and will public couldn’t be better realized. ment that can and does make a small part in bringing WorldPride run late into the night. Make sure Madrid carries the weight of this legacy, and I am confident they will rom Tijuana, on the Mexican border with the a difference. No other move- Madrid to life. The vision of event you register to march! The main excel. If you don’t believe me, then U.S., to Comodoro Rivadavia in the Argentine ment has the power to make is to bring together many groups stage—one of five—has moved to to present Spain as role model, as Alcala Plaza. Imagine a stage with you just have to come to Madrid Patagonia, more than 230 Latin American cities our community stronger for yourself to see: June 23 to July well as focusing on LGBT issues in the famous gates as your backdrop celebrated a Pride event in 2016. Despite prevailing and promote equality more 2, 2017. And after Madrid, I also Latin America. I am thrilled, like a lit with rainbows, as the audience Fstereotypes of the countries of this region—sexist, conserva- effectively; to show solidar- proud grandpa, to share some of fills the avenue. can’t wait to see you in New York City for WorldPride 2019, where tive, and religious—Prides are becoming an urban tradition ity in numbers; to disclose what you can expect this June! Another new feature to Madrid we will also be celebrating the 50th that exemplify the growing diversity throughout the region. wrongdoings; to celebrate Having just returned from Madrid, is a WorldPride Park in Madrid anniversary of the Stonewall Riots! However, despite these advances, Latin America remains victories; and to empower us there is much to report. AEGAL Rio (Puente del Rey) Park. An By then I will be able to say I am a amazing green space right in the one of the most disparate sections of the world, not only in all to continue fighting these has created a coalition consisting proud great-grandpa, finally ready of COGAM (Spanish: Colectivo de center of Madrid—think NYC’s terms of economics and education, but also protection and battles every single day. to pass the Pride torch onto the Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Central Park or London’s Hyde next generation. acknowledgment of the rights for all its population. 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filled with booths, tents, and a concert stage. Pride Park will offer education presentations and entertainment during the day and evening. Inclusive events for families, children, and seniors are also scheduled. In addition, the highlight of any WorldPride is the Human Rights Conference. Madrid’s takes place June 26-28 at the Autonomous University of Madrid, which is easily reached by metro. Each day will be filled with panels, workshops, lectures, and keynote speakers. Extensive international outreach has been done to guarantee a wide selection of topics and people to inspire and empower attendees. Special attention is being given to the trans communities in Central America. This marginalized population often goes without protection from local police for investigation of hate crimes— including murders. Our goal is to bring to light this egregious situation and to help be the catalyst for change in this region of the world. Confirmed speakers include President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain, Prime Minister of Iceland Johanna Sigurdardottir, V.P. of the European Parliament Ulrike Lunacek, and the Minister of Civil Liberties & Consumer Affairs of Malta to name just a few. Each WorldPride has helped change the world in some way. Global visibility can never be a bad thing! WorldPride sends the message “We are everywhere, Pride Down South don’t worry—you are not alone.” From political revolutions to sweeping festivals, Latin The goal of all Pride organizers to American Pride reveals itself in a kaleidoscope of forms create safe spaces to be “OUT” in By Emmanuel Temores public couldn’t be better realized. Madrid carries the weight of this legacy, and I am confident they will rom Tijuana, on the Mexican border with the excel. If you don’t believe me, then U.S., to Comodoro Rivadavia in the Argentine you just have to come to Madrid Patagonia, more than 230 Latin American cities for yourself to see: June 23 to July celebrated a Pride event in 2016. Despite prevailing 2, 2017. And after Madrid, I also Fstereotypes of the countries of this region—sexist, conserva- can’t wait to see you in New York City for WorldPride 2019, where tive, and religious—Prides are becoming an urban tradition we will also be celebrating the 50th that exemplify the growing diversity throughout the region. anniversary of the Stonewall Riots! However, despite these advances, Latin America remains By then I will be able to say I am a one of the most disparate sections of the world, not only in proud great-grandpa, finally ready to pass the Pride torch onto the terms of economics and education, but also protection and next generation. acknowledgment of the rights for all its population. Equal

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marriage is an option for just 30 percent > WORLDPRIDE 2017, MADRID, SPAIN, JUNE 23–JULY 2 of Latin Americans; there are only gender identity laws in place in six countries in the > NYC PRIDE, NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 16–25, 2017 region; and homophobic and transphobic GLOBAL hatred and discrimination continue. > PRIDE LONDON, LONDON, ENGLAND, JUNE 24–JULY 9 In Chile, it’s a battle that dates back PRIDE > CANADA PRIDE [THE INAUGURAL EVENT], MONTREAL, CANADA, AUGUST 11–20, 2017 decades. One Sunday in April 1973, more EVENTS than 40 female trans sex workers took to > INTERPRIDE 2017 AGM AND WORLD CONFERENCE, INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 5–8 the streets of Santiago to protest police persecutions and abuse, and to fight for the > WORLDPRIDE 2019, STONEWALL 50, NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 2019 right to equality. In a time of political dem- onstrations and of young leaders rising up,

La Gitana—a 26-year-old transvestite—lead PALM SPRINGS ORLANDO the first sexual minority demonstration PALM SPRINGS PRIDE COME OUT WITH PRIDE/ November 3 ORLANDO PRIDE ever documented in the history of Latin October 14 America. SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO PRIDE ST PETERSBURG It took 19 years for the Chilean LGBT July 14 ST. PETE PRIDE June 23 community to protest again, when in 1992, followed in 2012. Today, the main demands SAN FRANCISCO 10 activists disguised with masks joined in of Argentine LGBT groups are better THE FOLSOM STREET FAIR WILTON MANORS September 24 WILTON MANORS STONEWALL unison in a march with other human rights working conditions along with increased PARADE & FESTIVAL organizations. Three years later, the coun- opportunities for trans men and women. SAN FRANCISCO June 17 SAN FRANCISCO LGBT PRIDE try’s first official Pride march took place. El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and CELEBRATION AND PARADE YBOR CITY Today, Santiago’s biggest party is Panama each celebrate at least one Pride A CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY TAMPA PRIDE June 24 reserved for the second Saturday of Novem- per year. Still, Central America’s “Northern March 25 VENICE ber. The Open Mind Fest, or Gay Parade Triangle” (the region encompassing these VENICE PRIDE Georgia Chile, is unique in Latin America, inspired three countries) remains one of the most June 2 ATLANTA ATLANTA PRIDE by the former European Love Parade. dangerous throughout Latin America for WEST HOLLYWOOD October 14 Last year, 18 Prides were scheduled to LGBT individuals, with San Pedro Sula in CHRISTOPHER STREET WEST - L.A. PRIDE take place in 15 cities throughout Chile, Honduras being dubbed the most violent AUGUSTA L.A. PRIDE FESTIVAL & PARADE AUGUSTA PRIDE making it the Latin American country with city on earth by some estimates. Organized June 5 June 23 the largest number of events per capita— crime and gang warfare are commonplace, Connecticut VALDOSTA one Pride for every million citizens. as are homophobia- and transphobia- SOUTH GEORGIA PRIDE FES- HARTFORD TIVAL Like Chile, Argentina also stands out for related murders, which have risen HARTFORD CAPITAL CITY PRIDE September 15 the way popular feminist movements have considerably over the last few years. September 6 Illinois been integrated within its Pride parades. Further up and to the north, we find District of Columbia CHICAGO In Buenos Aires and other cities across Mexico, the country with the second high- Calendar DC LEATHER PRIDE WEEKEND CHICAGO PRIDE PARADE Argentina, Pride is held in October to est number of Pride events each year after May 12 June 25 CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE the United States (at least 85 events were PRIDE EVENTS 2017 coincide with the anniversary of the first June 8 FORT WAYNE organization to promote feminism as well held within the country in 2016 alone). In FORT WAYNE PRIDE July 21 as equality for sexual minorities. Nuestro cities like Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, Alabama California Florida Mundo (Our World) began in 1969 in the support of the LGBT community is thriv- MOBILE CATHEDRAL CITY FORT LAUDERDALE FORT LAUDERDALE PRIDE ON Indiana middle of a military dictatorship. While the ing. Within the government, the push for MOBILE ALABAMA PRIDE FEST CATHEDRAL CITY DOWNTOWN May 1 FOUNDATION THE BEACH SPENCER coup d’etat of 1976 reduced the visibility of equality is also high. Same-sex marriage CATHEDRAL CITY LGBT DAYS February 26 SPENCER PRIDE FESTIVAL June 4 the group, it returned in 1992 when a group is performed without restriction in many, Arizona March 24 GAINESVILLE of 300 gays and lesbians dared to go out but not all, parts of the country. In addition, BISBEE DAVIS PRIDE COMMUNITY CENTER OF INDIANAPOLIS BISBEE PRIDE DAVIS PHOENIX COALITION NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA CIRCLE CITY INDY PRIDE onto the streets to protest. Things have only courts in all Mexican states must approve June 17 DAVIS PRIDE October 21 June 3 gotten bigger since then, with the number of marriage licenses for same-sex couples May 21 OAKLAND PARK PHOENIX Kentucky attendees at last year’s Buenos Aires Pride when petitioned to do so and same-sex mar- PHOENIX PRIDE LONG BEACH FLORIDA YOUTH PRIDE COALITION totaling more than 200,000. riages performed within the country are April 1 LONG BEACH LESBIAN & GAY LEXINGTON PRIDE INC YOUTH CAMPIN & DIVERSITY LEXINGTON PRIDE FESTIVAL In 2010, Argentina became the first coun- recognized without exception. May 19 DAYS June 24 Arkansas May 19 try in Latin America to legalize marriage In all, it’s not a bad start—but we still have LITTLE ROCK LOUISVILLE equality. Gender identity protection laws plenty of work to do for our future. CENTRAL ARKANSAS PRIDE KENTUCKIANA PRIDE June 16

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OTTAWA CAPITAL PRIDE FESTIVA CROATIA August 21 ZAGREB THUNDER BAY ZAGREB PRIDE Thunder Pride June 10 June 7 WAUBAUSHENE CZECHIA SIMCOE PRIDE PRAGUE July 31 PRAGUE PRIDE August 7-13 INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Prince Edward Island CHARLOTTETOWN DENMARK South Carolina PRIDE PEI BOILING SPRINGS AUSTRALIA Northwest Territories July 23 COPENHAGEN UPSTATE PRIDE SC YELLOWKNIFE COPENHAGEN PRIDE WEEK November 4 SYDNEY NWT PRIDE Quebec August 15-20 DARLINGHURST August 10 MONTREAL Tennessee SYDNEY GAY AND LESBIAN MARDI GRAS PARADE & PARTY FIERTE MONTREAL FRANCE CHATTANOOGA March 3, 2018 Nova Scotia August 10 CHATTANOOGA PRIDE 2017 HALIFAX STRASBOURG October 1 SYDNEY HALIFAX PRIDE Saskatchewan GAY PRIDE DE STRASBOURG NASHVILLE MARDI GRAS FLOAT July 22 June 2 NASHVILLE PRIDE March 4, 2018 REGINA June 24 REGINA PRIDE Ontario June 9 GERMANY Victoria Massachusetts New Jersey CHARLOTTE BARRIE Texas SHEPPARTON SASKATOON BREGENZ CHARLOTTE PRIDE GEORGIAN PRIDE CSD BREGENZ BOSTON EDISON DALLAS OUTintheOPEN FESTIVAL SASKATOON PRIDE August 26 March 27 July 1-2 BOSTON PRIDE JERSEY PRIDE ALAN ROSS TEXAS FREEDOM November 2-5 June 9 June 2 June 4 MANTEO PARADE & MUSIC FESTIVAL IN BRACEBRIDGE BERLIN OBX PRIDEFEST THE PARK MUSKOKA PRIDE COMMUNITY MANCHESTER CHINA BERLIN PRIDE September 22 September 16 AUSTRIA July 21 NORTH SHORE PRIDE PARADE New Mexico July 22 HONG KONG AND FESTIVAL 2017 ALBUQUERQUE VIENNA LONDON WINSTON SALEM HOUSTON HONG KONG PRIDE June 22 ALBUQUERQUE PRIDE HOSI WIEN/VIENNA PRIDE- PRIDE LONDON PRIDE WINSTON-SALEM HOUSTON LGBT PRIDE CEL- November June 8 October 15 EBRATION REGENBOGENPARADE July 20 WORCESTER June 24 June 9 WORCESTER PRIDE LOS RANCHOS September 3 LOS RANCHOS PRIDE Ohio SAN MARCOS June 4 COLUMBUS SMTX PRIDE BELGUIM COLUMBUS PRIDE September 9 Michigan SANTA FE BRUSSELS June 16 DETROIT PRIDE ON THE PLAZA BELGIAN LESBIAN & GAY PRIDE MOTOR CITY PRIDE September 15 Virginia May 20 June 10 Oklahoma MCLEAN TULSA NORTHERN VA (NOVA) PRIDE HOLLAND New York CANADA OKLAHOMANS FOR EQUALITY/ September 30 HOLLAND PRIDE 2017 BROOKLYN TULSA PRIDE June 23 BROOKLYN LGBTQIA PRIDE WEEK Alberta May 30 NORFOLK June 10 HAMPTON ROADS PRIDEFEST CALGARY Minnesota June 16 PRIDE CALGARY NEW YORK Oregon August 25 KANSAS CITY NYC PRIDE EUGENE NORFOLK GAY PRIDE KANSAS CITY June 18 EUGENE PRIDE TIDEWATER LGBT INTERFAITH June 2 British Columbia August 12 June 13 QUEENS ABBOTSFORD MINNEAPOLIS QUEENS PRIDE ROANOKE FRASER VALLEY PRIDE TWIN CITIES PRIDE June 4 Pennsylvania ROANOKE PRIDE July 15 June 24 ERIE September 9 STATEN ISLAND KELOWNA ERIE PRIDE STATEN ISLAND PRIDEFEST OKANAGAN PRIDE Missouri June 24 May 20 Washington August 12 LAKE ST. LOUIS NEW HOPE BREMERTON PRIDE ST. CHARLES ROCHESTER KELOWNA NEW HOPE CELEBRATES KITSAP PRIDE NETWORK June 17 ROCHESTER PRIDE PEAK PRIDE AT BIG WHITE May 14 July 15 July 13 April 7 PHILADELPHIA SEATTLE Nevada WOODBURY VANCOUVER PRIDEDAY CAPITOL HILL PRIDE FESTIVAL LAS VEGAS LONG ISLAND PRIDE VANCOUVER PRIDE June 6 June 24 LAS VEGAS PRIDE June 11 August 6 October 14 North Carolina Rhode Island Manitoba PROVIDENCE RENO ASHEVILLE WINNIPEG RHODE ISLAND PRIDE NORTHERN NEVADA PRIDE BLUE RIDGE PRIDE PRIDE WINNIPEG FESTIVAL June 17 July 22 FESTIVAL 2017 May 26 September 30

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CANADA Alberta CALGARY PRIDE CALGARY August 25

British Columbia ABBOTSFORD FRASER VALLEY PRIDE July 15 KELOWNA OKANAGAN PRIDE August 12 KELOWNA PEAK PRIDE AT BIG WHITE April 7 VANCOUVER VANCOUVER PRIDE August 6

Manitoba WINNIPEG PRIDE WINNIPEG FESTIVAL May 26

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