Fearless Political Poster Art by Favianna Rodriguez
gravyCAKE Productions unveils episode 2 of ‘i am QUEER in BROOKLYN,’ a web-based docu-series about the lives, passion and flair of queers living in Brooklyn, New York. This episode features indie songstress Adrienne Mack-Davis of Bushwick, Brooklyn.
“The way people are ingesting entertainment is changing” says co-creator Alex Lloyd. “Creating a web-series promoting people of racial and sexual backgrounds that you wouldn’t normally see on network television is radical and freeing because you are maintaining creative control, thus shaping these images with authenticity.”
At the core, ‘i am QUEER in BROOKLYN’ follows those who are creating differently, loving enormously, living wildly or barely surviving, hustling, grinding, coming out, discovering themselves, taking chances, impacting, influencing and changing the world around them through their artistry, musicianship, fashioning and lifestyle. All participants sit comfortably under the LGBTAQ (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, allies/androgynous/asexual, queer) umbrella, embracing one or more terms; sometimes embracing none- which, as gravyCAKE defines it, is queer within itself.
Follow gravyCAKE on twitter: @gravyCAKETV + Tumblr: gravycake.tumblr.com
glennishamorgan covers the 2012 GLAAD Media Awards for Elixher.com.
Watch her speak with Kim Wayans, Russell Simmons, La La Anthony, Janet Mock, and more.
Artwork from Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church
In response to the church’s recent call to censor the groundbreaking exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art hosted Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church, a week-long exhibition to which anyone could submit artwork and all submitted artwork was shown.
Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church is an activist riposte to the shameful history of censorship against LGBTQ art and artists by both the Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Protestant Churches. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art firmly believes that all art should be seen and displayed without regard to content; therefore in order to display every artwork submitted, this exhibition was not be curated, edited, interpreted or censored.
Kit Yan talking about his brother, Edwin as his inspiration. Kit is a trans spoken word artist from Hawaii and part of queer band Good Asian Drivers.
“QueenS” video directed by dreamhampton for THEESatisfaction. Inspired by Mickalene Thomas, of course. Cop the album here: www.subpop.com/artists/theesatisfaction
Lesbians Po & Dice from LaLa’s Full Court life talk to the breakfast club (Angela Yee, Charlamagne tha God and DJ Envy) at Power 105 in new york.
Peep some of the excerpts from the video below:
On being black lesbians out of the closet
Dice: I have a lot of people that will reach out to me like on Facebook or twitter telling me like ‘Yo, you just made it easier for me to come out to my family,” or “I look up to you,” or they’ll hit me, “How can I come out to my family, I’m going through this or that, can you help me, give me words of encouragement.” So that’s definitely a great thing, if you could just reach out, especially to the young kids, cause you hear so much about bullying and all that, and I never experienced none of that, which I’m blessed I never had to. I always had a supportive family, so that was good, but a lot of people don’t have that.Dice On Why Women Are Better in Bed
What more to know what a woman likes than another woman and women take the time out to 4 play and all that and really get into it and guys just be rushin’ tryin’ to get theirs.
Dice on whether she uses strap ons (whoaaaa)
Angela Yee: Dice, do you use strap ons and everything?
Dice: Whatever they want mama, I’m here to please. You like it I love it.
Po to Angela Yee: I feel like you’re wondering.
Dice: I feel like the wheels are turning.
Charlamagne: Curiosity is gonna get ya cat licked Yee!
Po: I just know that face. I’ve seen that face. Thenthe next thing ya know I see ya comin’ out of Dice’s room, like “Hey,” “Good Morning Angela.”
Angela was wondering something serrrioussssss hahaha
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