Gayskool

  • 🏳️‍🌈 Thank You for the Music

    🏳️‍🌈 Thank You for the Music

    Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. Jimi Hendrix Yesterday, I wrote about dance music. Today, let’s talk about music in general. For LGBTQ people, music reflects the full spectrum of our experiences, from angst, loneliness, and…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Dancing Queens

    What do gay men enjoy more than a dance song? The extended dance remix of the same dance song! OK, there’s a bit of stereotyping going on there, but lots of gay men go gaga for Gaga, wanna be Madonna1, and are crazy for Kylie.  My theory — more like…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves

    Let’s jump into a recent controversy to kick off Gayskool ’23. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have been in the news because they were invited, disinvited, and re-invited to the L.A. Dodgers Pride Night planned for June 16. (As Daily Dave readers know, the Dodgers were one of the first…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 God Save the Queens

    🏳️‍🌈 God Save the Queens

    Hello from the UK, one of the world’s leading countries for LGBTQ rights and equality. Here in London, there’s a rainbow flag around every corner and a feeling of inclusion everywhere you go. The UK decriminalized sexual activity between men in 1967. Many protections for LGBTQ Britons date back to…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Pulse

    🏳️‍🌈 Pulse

    Six years ago today, a terrorist entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and opened fire, murdering 49 people and wounding 53 more. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. The Pulse building is still there at 1912 S. Orange Ave. It has turned into a…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Just Desserts

    🏳️‍🌈 Just Desserts

    What’s big and gay and fun to lick? Get your mind out of the gutter! It’s Big Gay Ice Cream, the only place I know of that has frozen treats named after Golden Girls characters. (The Dorothy is vanilla soft serve topped with crushed Nilla wafers.) Big Gay Ice Cream…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Tampeño Pride

    🏳️‍🌈 Tampeño Pride

    Believe it or not, Tampa Bay is gayer than New York! According to recent research by the Williams Institute at UCLA, LGBTQ people make up 4.8% of the population of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area. In comparison, it’s 4.5% for the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area.  The gayest place in…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Naval Gazing

    Hey, did you know that Judy Garland was indirectly responsible for a multi-year taxpayer-funded anti-gay witch-hunt? Not only is this story true — it’s also hilarious! Back when it was dangerous to come out of the closet, introducing yourself as a “Friend of Dorothy” was a surreptitious way of letting…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 A Gay Ol’ Times

    You can expect fair and balanced coverage of LGBTQ issues in The New York Times today, but that wasn’t always the case. The paper wouldn’t even print the the word “gay” till 1987 — its style was to use “homosexual,” and you all know how I feel about that. The…

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Born This They

    The singular they — that is, using the pronoun “they” as a non-gendered alternative for “he” or “she” — isn’t a new invention. In fact, it first emerged in English in the Fourteenth Century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Next time you hear someone raising a fuss about the…

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