Indholdsfortegnelse for August - September 2016 i The Advocate

Michael Lambert (“Bloody, But Unbowed,” p. 40) is an associate editor of Out.com and The Advocate. He is a Brooklyn-based writer who reports on LGBT politics and culture. He formerly worked in trade publishing for major financial and engineering magazines. @lambertoutmag Chadwick Moore (“Bloody, But Unbowed,” p. 40) is a Brooklyn-based editor-at-large for Out, contributing editor for The Advocate, and contributor to Playboy and The New York Times. He formerly worked in book publishing in London and New York. @Chadwick_Moore Evan Ross Katz (“Stand Up and Be Funny,” p. 66) is style and pop culture writer and editor. He has written for numerous online and print outlets including The Advocate, Out, Mic, Men’s Health, Maxim, Refinery29, Fucking Young, Schön, Freshness and more. @evanrosskatz Instagram.com/TheAdvocateMag…

The LGBT community was targeted in the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass public shooting in our nation’s history. On the same day, a bomb attack was reportedly thwarted just before the Los Angeles Pride parade. Apart from targeting ISIS, which you have spoken about, what more can be done to protect our community from homegrown anti-LGBT hate and violence? SECRETARY CLINTON: What happened in Orlando is horrific and heartbreaking. It was an act of terror, and it was also an act of hate. The gunman attacked an LGBT nightclub during Pride Month—what should have been a safe space for people to be themselves, during a time when all Americans should be celebrating how far we’ve come. My prayers are with the victims, their families, and…

In 1989, I was glued to Life Goes On on ABC. It was the first television series with a regular character with Down syndrome, Corky, and he was played by Chris Burke, an actor with Down syndrome. It was the first time I’d ever seen someone with the genetic chromosome disorder portrayed as a normal, happy, healthy human being. Moreover, Corky was just like the rest of us. Not simply sweet and loyal but also, occasionally, an asshole. You know, a teenager. The series went on to break barriers: the following seasons, Becca (played by Kellie Martin) dated Jesse, a high school student with HIV (Chad Lowe won an Emmy for the role). That was around the same time that two girls kissed on CBS’s Picket Fences, Sandra Bernhard came…

Everything about the morning of Sunday, June 12, was a knife in the heart. It’s a terrible curse to know the horrifying events you’re witnessing on TV will be indelibly and crudely carved into your soul. The attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando, in which 49 people were viciously murdered and an additional 53 injured—most of whom were LGBT people of color—was about one thing: the hatred of queers. ISIS is a goddamned red herring. Yes, ISIS hates us too, but this killer—I won’t use his name—was an American. He was born in Queens, New York, and lived in Florida. To say that this hatred was somehow only an import to our shores is an abject denial of our lives, our queer selves. His hatred was homegrown. As the days…

Chambers of Terror “I’ve said often the greatest threat to freedom of religion in America is not ISIS, it’s the chamber of commerce. I mean, it’s the businesses that say to our representatives, ‘Oh, don’t pass laws like that, don’t pass these religious-freedom laws, because people will interpret that as antigay and we’ll lose business.’ ” —ROBERT JEFFRESS, PASTOR Target Going Broke “Target stock is tumbling after they announced a pro-transgender restroom policy allowing men to use women’s bathrooms and changing rooms…. Wake up corporate America and stockholders—American families clearly do not want this.” —FRANKLIN GRAHAM, PASTOR No Showtunes on Exoplanets “If you could decide what 40 people you put on the spacecraft that would save humanity, how many of those would be same-sex couples? You’re wanting to save humankind…

Joe is restless and so am I, so restless. Button’s buddy lips frame “L G T TH O P?” across the bar. “Yes!” I cry, for dancing’s my soul delight. (Feet! feet!) “Come on!” Through the streets we skip like swallows. Howard malingers. (Come on, Howard.) Ashes malingers. (Come on, J.A.) Dick malingers. (Come on, Dick.) Alvin darts ahead. (Wait up, Alvin.) Jack, Earl and Someone don’t come. Down the dark stairs drifts the steaming cha-cha-cha. Through the urine and smoke we charge to the floor. Wrapped in Ashes’ arms I glide. (It’s heaven!) Button lindys with me. (It’s heaven!) Joe’s two-steps, too, are incredible, and then a fast rhumba with Alvin, like skipping on toothpicks. And the interminable intermissions, we have them. Jack, Earl and Someone drift guiltily in.…

Mike and Daveis your second movie with Zac Efron, after Dirty Grandpa.Is my infatuation reasonable or basic? I totally get it, and I’m definitely into it. He’s superhuman and such a sweetheart. I love him. One of my gay friends really appreciates when I send him casual shirtless pics of Zac from set. I try not to objectify him, but it’s hard. Are you aware of your own LGBT following? Yeah. I mean, it makes sense to me. I feel like I operate in an old-school way that only gays truly understand. So for me it’s the ultimate compliment. My tastes are like an older gay man’s, and I think that’s who I really am. Like, I grew up obsessed with Judy Garland, and I was also obsessed with how…

BLACK PRIDE MATTERS Our June/July issue cover story by Les Fabian Brathwaite on the need for Black LGBT Pride events included discussions of the inclusivity of Pride. Reader Mark Scanlon-Greene wrote, “If white LGBTQ people were more inclusive, people of color would feel less of a need to have their own Pride. I’ve seen too many cases in which White LGBTQ people are as racist as any Klan member would be expected to be. The emergence of Pride events that focus on different minority members of the LGBTQ community is not discrimination; it’s a response to the discrimination they feel within our community.” Donnie Gentry replied, “Things such as this just serve to fragment us into groups that segregate us from each other—not needed and highly divisive!” Inevitably, Jimmie Thomptson…

1933 Year Pan Am first advertised flight attendants with “Rodney, the smiling steward.” Estimates put the number of gay male flight attendants working on flights today at about 50%. 5 Years German explorer and celebrated naturalist Alexander von Humboldt spent traveling Latin America (1799–1804), during which time the confirmed bachelor brought male companions $13,999 Price of a penthouse suite on the Atlantis Events fall cruise from Barcelona to Athens 2,408 Miles Amelia Earhart (possible girlfriend of Eleanor Roosevelt) flew in 1935 as the first solo aviator to cross the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif. 16 Percentage of LGBTs who took a cruise in 2015 19 Number of nude beaches and resorts listed with the International Naturist Society in the U.S. 2011 Year that a glass barrier was erected in…

NOT FAR FROM the dramatic Cliffs of Moher on Ireland’s west coast is a tiny tourist village that has hosted a world-famous tradition for generations. For more than 150 years, bachelor farmers have flocked to the spa town of Lisdoonvarna each autumn in search of a wife—after their harvests were safely in, of course. Now the festivities aren’t limited—to farmers, to singles, or to straight people. During the Outing Music and Matchmaking festival in Lisdoonvarna each October, hundreds of LGBTs descend on the tiny, charming village for music, matchmaking, and craic (which translates very roughly from Gaelic as “a laugh”). Now in its fourth year, the Outing will feature pop-up clubs, drag performances, comedy, live music, arts, and a film festival—and the talents of Willie Daly, a fourth-generation matchmaker. October…

The award-winning actor, playwright, director, and singer-songwriter is known for works such as The Lily’s Revenge, The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, and Hir, plays that span sociological themes. Nowadays, judy (Mac uses the lowercase gender pronoun “judy”) is developing A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, describing it as “a durational concert that spans years, locations, and contains an onslaught of popular songs…” I spoke to Mac in grand theatrical fashion. I saw your version of David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” on YouTube and loved it. Some critic once wrote that I’m Ziggy Stardust meets Tiny Tim. I wear these crazy outfits, but also with a little glam aesthetic to it, but disturbing at the same time. I didn’t want to be defined that way, so I made a show…

“SO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE IN BLACKPOOL?” The four men looked at me as if I had just touched down from Mars. With the jet lag creeping in, I suppose I might as well have. A few minutes earlier, I had decided that my pint of beer required the companionship of a cigarette and headed out to the Funny Girls theater’s smoking patio to find one. BLACKPOOL Blackpool, a seaside resort town on the northwest coast of England, is one of the most popular vacation spots in the United Kingdom, attracting nearly 10 million visitors annually. As impressive as that figure may be, Blackpool enjoys very little prominence among foreign travelers. So, the matter of how a gay guy from Palm Springs managed to be standing before these men…