tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:32:03 +0000HolidaysReviewsLegalDiscriminationRelationshipsComing OutFamilyMusicCrimeRightsEntertainmentSciencePoliticsPolice BeatVideosLifeMilitaryFeaturedTravelSexCensorshipHistoryHeadlinesAfricaMoviesSportsEuropeIndiaReligionHealthYouthObitsMediaBooksGay News, Views and Reviews from Around the World.http://www.gaynewsbits.com/noreply@blogger.com (Robin)Blogger925125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-2327111929810823985Tue, 31 May 2011 12:18:00 +00002011-05-31T11:31:39.787-03:00LifeFeaturedIf you’re a regular here, you may be wondering where I’ve been. I’ve been on vacation. It started as merely a couple of weeks off to go to my brother’s wedding and then the vacation just extended as I decided that I really needed a big break. During that time, I’ve had time to think about where I’m going with my life. I’ve decided that after 12 years of posting things and writing online, (7 ofhttp://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/05/life-moves-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-3557958490392463609Fri, 13 May 2011 19:00:00 +00002011-05-13T16:00:00.420-03:00MusicVideosThis week's music video: From MEN's debut album, Talk About Body: "Who Am I To Feel So Free"; featuring JD Samson -- Watch: MEN - "Who Am I To Feel So Free" http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/05/featured-music-video-who-am-i-to-feel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-7049893588971973425Fri, 06 May 2011 19:00:00 +00002011-05-06T16:00:04.849-03:00MusicVideosThis week's featured video: The City, from Patrick Wolf's album Lupercalia - Watch: Video: The City Related Article: - Patrick Wolf: 'It was time to grow up' - Newly engaged pop iconoclast Patrick Wolf tells Elizabeth Day how falling in love at first sight inspired his joyous new album [Guardian] Related Post: Video: Hard Timeshttp://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/05/featured-music-vid-city.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-7922557178253136179Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:00:00 +00002011-04-29T16:00:01.262-03:00MusicVideosThis week's music vid: Loud & Queer -- Lezzies On X  & featuring Big Freedia in "She Likes to Party" - Watch it: Video: She Likes to Party http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/featured-music-video-she-likes-to-party.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-5734837469094771830Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:30:00 +00002011-04-29T09:30:03.013-03:00BooksEntertainmentNational Poetry Month Post: A. E. Housman's, (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936) poem, Because I liked you better, which referred to his "good friend" Moses 'Mo' Jackson. Because I liked you better Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say It irked you, and I promised To throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted, stiff and dry; Goodbye, said you, forget me. I will, http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/poem-because-i-liked-you-better.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-5390503124661356267Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:37:00 +00002011-04-28T09:37:00.519-03:00FeaturedEntertainmentHistoryPhoto Obsession: A 1920s photograph of a Australian vaudeville performer who specialized in male impersonation roles, sparks a minor obsession to find out more about her. Title: Nellie Kolle as a Swaggie Photo Credit:  State Library of New South Wales/flickr commons  While browsing the State Library of New South Wales flickr commons galleries recently I came across a photograph that has http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/obsessed-with-male-impersonator-nellie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-6137511575305362029Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:28:00 +00002011-04-27T09:28:00.255-03:00EntertainmentHistoryFeatured Photo: Ted Shawn (21 October 1891 -- 9 January 1972), notable male pioneer of American modern dance. Pictured: Ted Shawn in Cosmic Dance of Śiva (Shiva) during the Ziegfeld Follies Tour of 1928. Photo Source: The New York Public Library/ flickr commons Ted Shawn - Notable for a number of things including: - Co-founder of the Denishawn school and company in 1914; - Founded the http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/beautiful-ted-shawn-in-cosmic-dance-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-8303743650427692970Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:01:00 +00002011-04-26T09:01:00.164-03:00ReviewsMoviesEntertainmentLate last year when I watched St. Trinian’s I was impatient to see St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold , after all, it had already come out on DVD in Europe. Well, now the sequel is finally available in North America; to a certain extent at least. Recently I spotted in the “New Releases” section of our local Video Rental store a copy of St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold; I http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/st-trinians-2-is-also-delightful.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-3483619388012643516Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:07:00 +00002011-05-15T18:15:32.976-03:00EntertainmentPolice BeatHistoryGay History File: While going through the FBI’s new Vault, I re-discovered a file that I hadn’t read in awhile – Rock Hudson’s file. In this file the FBI expressed concern with Hudson’s “homosexual tendencies.” In May 1965, J. Edgar Hoover, (How’s that for irony?) received a Request of the Bureau for the Los Angeles Division to interview Rock Hudson regarding a subject they were investigating. http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/was-fbi-was-afraid-rock-hudson-might.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-7043877037753205673Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:34:00 +00002011-04-22T17:40:46.940-03:00LegalCrimeKidnapping Case Breakthrough In Long-running Miller-Jenkins Custody Battle As FBI Arrest Man in Connection With Aiding "Ex-lesbian" Lisa Miller, flee U.S. and Keep Daughter from Former Partner. There has been an arrest by the FBI in the custody case involving former civil union partners Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller, and their daughter, Isabella Miller-Jenkins. The arrest by the FBI took place http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/arrest-made-in-interstate-lesbian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-7050299909657873210Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:00:00 +00002011-05-15T18:18:15.803-03:00MusicVideosThis week's featured music video: A tongue twister From R.E.M.'s Collapse Into Now album, Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter -- Check it out: Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/music-vid-alligatoraviatorautopilotanti.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-5643507688346317004Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:30:00 +00002011-04-22T09:30:02.094-03:00BooksVideosEntertainmentNational Poetry Month Post: Motion Graphics Designer Lexi Elven transforms Shakespeare's Sonnet 26 into a flowing work of art: Lexi Elven writes: "Placing Shakespeare's sonnet XXVI in a modern context. This particular sonnet is still controversial to this day as some people believe it was written to his young gay lover. I placed the poetry on the model's body, as modern day gay lovers may do http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/shakespeares-sonnet-26-in-motion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-8255740995071476745Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:37:00 +00002011-04-21T18:37:07.087-03:00HeadlinesGay News & Gossip: Christina Aguilera inducted into Hollywood's Gay Walk of Fame; Courteney Cox Thought David Arquette Had Gay Cruising App; Atlanta-based Law Firm Under Fire; say gay' bill clears TN Senate panel; Soho Pub shuts down again; Brighton hotel accused of turning away lesbian couple... Celebs: - Burlesque star, Christina Aguilera busts out of basque as she is inducted into http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/thursdays-gay-news-apr-21st.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-1934087836078475280Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:34:00 +00002011-04-20T16:34:59.987-03:00HeadlinesGay Headlines: Rutgers Videospying Suspect Indicted; Ultranationalists jailed for disrupting gay parade; Muslim boys considered effeminate sent to anti-gay counselling camp; Illusionist Derren Brown: I tried to ‘cure’ myself; Vulnerable gay people don't need to be 'cured'; Rome's gay priest scene exposed; $520 per hour to defend gay marriage ban; The Verizon Guy gets his life back... Crime: - http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/wednesdays-gay-headlines-apr-20th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-7390216687949578477Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:23:00 +00002011-04-19T13:27:56.020-03:00LegalDiscriminationPoliticsHouse Of Representatives Seeks To Punish 81-year-old Bereaved Spouse & Others by Defending Descriminatory "Defense Of Marriage Act", (DOMA) While Claiming To Protect Taxpayers. ACLU Client Edie Windsor fighting DOMA (Photo Courtesy: ACLU) Republican leadership of the House of Representatives moved yesterday to intervene in a lawsuit against the federal government brought by 81-year-old Edith "http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/house-of-representatives-plans-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-3531182852970190995Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:19:00 +00002011-04-18T18:19:53.259-03:00HeadlinesGay News Headlines: Former Marine Killed Gay Prof.; Businessman Killed Dancer; Jesse Jackson denies gay worker’s harassment; 'Gay' Stableboy Groped Her Breasts; HIV prevention takes step back with halt of major trial; European Gay Couples Drawn to Bulgaria; Photo of gay men kissing booted from Facebook; YouTube Pulled Apple employee video for gay kids; Interview with author of Teenage tragicomedyhttp://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/mondays-gay-news-apr-18th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-3775897846259098721Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:15:00 +00002011-04-15T18:15:00.446-03:00HeadlinesGay News: Pagans & "Coming Out Theology"; Gay teen beaten by mob at gas station; Hundreds attend kiss-in outside Soho pub; BBC Newsnight worker 'sacked over gay harassment'; Two Men and a Dolly; Siksay's parting wish; Green Party & Gays; Men will turn gay says Indian Minister; Openly Gay Players & the NBA... Beliefs: - "Coming Out Theology": Is It Necessary for Pagans? Queer lives have a lot http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/gay-news-for-friday-apr-15th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-7428981903877629503Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:00:00 +00002011-04-15T16:00:03.846-03:00MusicVideosThis week's music vid: I just love Sally Seltmann's songs & vids - Wonderful. Check out her latest -- You're Always: Video: You're Always http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/featured-music-video-youre-always.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-2807900314996948839Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +00002011-04-15T09:00:05.941-03:00DiscriminationYouthGLSEN's Day of Silence to Raise Awareness About Anti-LGBT Bullying at Thousands of Schools on Friday -- 20,000 plus Students Registered to Participate. NEW YORK, NY -- More than 20,000 students are registered and hundreds of thousands more will participate at middle schools, high schools and colleges from every state in the country in GLSEN's National Day of Silence on Friday April 15th by http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/glsens-day-of-silence-turns-15.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-1042428487149513774Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:51:00 +00002011-04-14T17:51:55.239-03:00DiscriminationReligionYouthThe Bullying Advocates: Report Exposes the Religious Right's Effort to Stop Anti-Bullying Programs in Schools. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As states and school districts work to stem a tide of anti-gay bullying in American schools, a powerful group is out to stop them. The Religious Right has been leading a concerted effort to stop programs that seek to protect LGBT youth from bullying and to deny thathttp://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/report-exposes-bullying-advocates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-1022223429255285350Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:06:00 +00002011-04-14T18:59:50.354-03:00HeadlinesGay News: Gay victim lured into ambush; Domestic Abuse in LGBT relationships; Gay marriage foes want trial tapes returned; Kobe Bryant fined over Gay Slur; Gay couple ejected from Soho pub for kissing; Anti-Gay Adoption Bill Fails in Illinois; Montenegro government throws support behind 1st gay pride event. Crime: - Gay victim was lured into ambush by hate gang, Leicester Court told [This is http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/gay-headlines-for-thursday-apr-14th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-8503865301196263113Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:32:00 +00002011-04-13T16:32:27.938-03:00HeadlinesGay News: Hate crime claim by gay college student was false say officials; Louisiana’s denial to gay dads; Anti-Gay Law in Texas That Just Won't Die; Gay haters target Australian commando regiment; Health & Aging; Cardinal Message To Ricky Martin; Kobe ‘a disgrace’... Crime: - Hate crime claim by gay college student was false, say University of North Carolina officials -- Report of hate crime http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/wednesdays-headlines-apr-13th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-8401300505353896026Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:35:00 +00002011-04-13T17:39:03.672-03:00HeadlinesGay News Headlines: "Social Conservatives" & "New Words" for Gays; Ian McKellen takes gay tour to schools; Mongolia gays face uphill battle; Malta government's attitude 'reprehensible'; Gay University of North Carolina student assaulted; African gay-rights activists stand strong; A new play about a gay hate crime; Peter Tatchell: 10 year gay blood ban is unjustified... Anti-gay Agendas: - "http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/tuesdays-gay-headlines-apr-12th.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-6960678974994982423Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:30:00 +00002011-04-12T11:30:48.648-03:00BooksCensorshipFeaturedOf Gay Penguins & Other Nefarious Books: Even though Roy and Silo split up years ago, their story as told in the award-winning children's book, "And Tango Makes Three" has waddled 'its way back to the number one slot as America’s most frequently challenged book.' Justin Richardson’s and Peter Parnell’s "And Tango Makes Three" tops the list of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Top Ten http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/america-loves-to-hate-those-gay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7635729922694094682.post-2007130909789578713Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +00002011-04-12T09:00:13.425-03:00BooksVideosEntertainmentHistoryNational Poetry Month Post: In this brief video, Jason Jenn introduces us to the poetry and world of renowned Alexandria born Greek poet, Constantine P. Cavafy -- Watch: Editor's Note: The video is actually also to plug Jenn's show, Cavafy's Caress which he put on earlier in April. Sadly, I found out about this wonderful video and show too late; but it does wet the appetite for Cavafy's poetry. http://www.gaynewsbits.com/2011/04/introduction-to-poetry-of-constantine-p.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robin)