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Monthly Archives: February 2019
10 San Francisco Queer Party Scene Photos, From 1986 to 1994
10 San Francisco Queer Party Scene Photos, From 1986 to 1994
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White House Press Corps Abruptly Evicted from Melia Hanoi Hotel to Make Room for Kim Jong Un
White House Press Corps Abruptly Evicted from Melia Hanoi Hotel to Make Room for Kim Jong Un
The White House Press Corps was evicted abruptly from the Melia Hanoi Hotel where they had a workspace set up and many were staying — because Kim Jong Un decided he wanted to stay there.
#KimJongUn arriving In Hanoi Melia Hotel. pic.twitter.com/4n2D9qoRzZ
— ChiaChieh(Jane)Tang (@goodaylala) February 26, 2019
NBC News reported: ‘The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted Tuesday morning that the reporters who cover Trump would be relocated from their planned staging ground at the Melia Hotel — including a 200-seat ballroom and stand-up spots for broadcast reporters — to an international media center. “You must go now! This way,” a Vietnamese security officer barked at members of the press corps in the hotel lobby Tuesday morning. The forced move was highly unusual because the White House had approved of and supported the use of the space by media who cover the president.’
Reuters reported: ‘South Korean media and experts hailed it as a “heroic” and “deliberate strategy” for Kim to reveal more of himself to the American press. “By exposing his every move to American cameras, Kim Jong Un may be signalling that he is determined to send a strong message about his will to improve ties with the United States,” Cheong Seong-chang, a North Korea expert at the Sejong Institute, said before Kim arrived.’
That rumored strategy was foiled when the American journalists were forced out by the Vietnamese foreign ministry.
FYI:
the American Media Center will be relocated from Melia hotel to International Media Center at 91 Tran Hung Dao Hanoi#DPRKUSA #HanoiSummit— MoFAVietNam Spokesperson (@PressDept_MoFA) February 26, 2019
Though some journalists had a different take. CNN’s Jim Acosta said the North Korean delegation wasn’t happy to have the Americans at the hotel.
The North Koreans were clearly not happy the American press was set up at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi. As we had heard earlier, Kim Jong Un is staying at the hotel. He just arrived per @Kevinliptakcnn and @AlliemalCNN t.co/0MnU8VASQT
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 26, 2019
Reuters added: “With less than 24 hours notice, the White House press pool was instead relocated to a shared working space set up for visiting journalists at the Viet Xo Friendship Cultural Labour Palace, a giant Soviet-era edifice a few blocks from the Melia. It was not clear what happened to the journalists who had booked to stay in the Melia.”
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Pete Buttigieg Is Not the First Gay Man to Run for President
Pete Buttigieg Is Not the First Gay Man to Run for President
Republican Fred Karger says the mainstream media is erasing his historic 2012 campaign.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/2/26/pete-buttigieg-not-first-gay-man-run-president
The Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s Queer Artistic Director Is Leading The Comedy Troupe Into The Future: WATCH
The Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s Queer Artistic Director Is Leading The Comedy Troupe Into The Future: WATCH
The legendary improv comedy troupe The Upright Citizen’s Brigade (UCB) has a new artistic director, Michael Hartney.
A leader in the LGBTQ community, Hartney is working to bring even more queer comedy shows to the UCB lineup; shows like Here & Queer, The Best of Queerball, and We Will Slay Bells.
night night everyone I’m going to use Bradley Cooper’s flicking tongue during the “sha-la-la-la-la-la-lah-lalalalalalalalala-low” close-up as my pillow this eve
— Michael Hartney (@MichaelHartney) February 25, 2019
Hartney co-created the Characters Welcome house team and has spent years on Harold Night, Lloyd Night, and Maude Night. Hartney is currently doing musical improv with Rumpleteaser, and in the past he’s directed running shows Pop Stars Are Dumb (But We Love Them) and Shkreli! Portrait of a Pharma Bro.
Hartney was one of 2016’s Comedy Central Comics to Watch, and did the 2018 NBC Late Night Writers Workshop, as well as performing in the New Faces – Characters showcase at the 2018 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.
Hartney’s TV credits include The Break With Michelle Wolf, 30 Rock, and The Who Was? Show. He was also a staff writer on TV Land’s late night show Throwing Shade.
Towleroad spoke to Hartney.
TLRD: How long have you been doing this? And when did you start?
MH: I’ve been the Artistic Director for just a few months. I started after Labor Day last year. I’ve been doing comedy in NYC for 16 years. I took my first UCB class in 2003, joined my first UCB house team in 2009, and started teaching at UCB in 2012.
How do you plan to shape the
future of UCB?
This question is
massive! To me, the UCB Theatre is like the Group Theatre in the 30’s
and our training center is like the Strasberg Institute, only for comedy. We
use a system, a method, that works. Everything we do here revolves around a
concept called The Game of the Scene, and to me, that’s what sets us apart from
the pack. Shows and performers come and go, but Game is our constant. So when
I’m in front of my cauldron in my wizard hat, shaping the future of this place,
that’s at the front of my mind. What I’m excited about for the future is the
evolving makeup of our theatre. When I first began seeing shows and taking
classes at UCB, there were literally two gay performers. Two. There were
very few women and people of color on teams. And though we still have a long,
long way to go, it also feels good to acknowledge that we’ve come a long way
towards representing diverse voices at UCB. A cool thing that is happening
right now is what I call “identity” shows: shows with all-queer,
all-Asian, all-South Asian casts, etc. That’s exciting and it’s bringing new
faces to our theatre both onstage and in the audience. Seven nights in a row of
the same type of show is boring; seeing just how many different ways game can
be played from so many different POVs (PsOV?) is positively thrilling.
Why is improv
important?
Studying/practicing improv keeps your mind sharp, your senses engaged, and your heart open. Watching it just makes you laugh. And I don’t know about you, but I need every reason to laugh I can find these days.
Watch Hartney on The Break with Michelle Wolf below.
The Upright Citizens Brigade was founded and is currently owned by Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh. With two theaters in New York and two theaters in Los Angeles, the UCB continues to offer the best and most innovative improv and sketch comedy every day of the week on both coasts. Performers who have gained success continue to lend their talents to the theater and accredited training centers in both New York and Los Angeles. Notable alumni include Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Rob Corddry, Paul Scheer, Nick Kroll, Nicole Beyer, and many more.
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Australia’s Cardinal George Pell, Vociferous Opponent of Marriage Equality, Convicted of Sexually Abusing Two 13 Year-Old Choirboys
Australia’s Cardinal George Pell, Vociferous Opponent of Marriage Equality, Convicted of Sexually Abusing Two 13 Year-Old Choirboys
It’d be a joke at this point, if it was funny, about the widespread conspiratorial cult of hypocritical homophobic pedophiles, with covens lurking in every corner of the globe the Catholic Church has found roots.
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Redemptoris Mater Seminary, Sydney
Photo by Kerry Myers
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“Up until his arrest and trial, he was the Roman Catholic Church’s most senior figure within Australia. He also had a leading role as the Vatican’s treasurer. The church suspended him as cardinal in June 2017, and removed him from office in December 2018. His term as treasurer ended on Sunday,” reports The Gay Star News.
GSN continues, “A jury found Pell guilty at a trial in Melbourne in December. However, legal restrictions imposed on the media stopped the world’s press from naming him. A judge lifted those legal restrictions today ahead of his sentencing. The court found him guilty of abusing two choirboys in Melbourne in 1996. One of his victims has since killed himself.”
Pell was one of the Catholic Church’s biggest critics of Ireland’s passage of marriage equality.
In a 2015 interview in the Catholic Herald UK: Pell [referring to the fact the Church had had to surrender its rights in Catholic adoption agencies in Britain and Northern Ireland], “Urged young people to get involved in political life and warned the laity against fleeing from the world and instead becoming preoccupied with church services and tasks of the priesthood.”
“We don’t need watered down and uncertain priests, and we don’t need lay faithful who seem determined to fill the gap,” he said.
“Same-sex marriage votes,” Pell concluded, “shows society is abandoning Christian foundation.”
A consistent opponent of marriage equality, the venomous Pell repeatedly referred to same-sex marriage in the most pernicious terms.
In a piece he penned for the Catholic News World entitled”Document on Marriage” that was essentially an Op-ed, Pell said, “Marriage is a natural institution whereby a man and a woman give themselves to each other for life in an exclusive sexual relationship that is open to procreation. It is a union that is publicly recognised, honoured and supported because of its unique capacity to generate children and to meet children’s deepest needs for the love and attachment of both their father and their mother. In the words of Professor Robert George of Princeton University:
“Marriage is the community formed by a man and a woman who publicly consent to share their whole lives, in a type of relationship oriented toward the begetting, nurturing and educating of children together. This openness to procreation, as the community’s natural fulfilment, distinguishes this community from other types.”1
By contrast, although the community formed by a homosexual couple may involve genuine caring, affection and commitment to one another, it is not an inherently procreative community, because their sexual relationship is not designed to generate children. Marriage is not simply a loving, committed relationship between two people, but a unique kind of physical and emotional union which is open to the possibility of new life.”
With this verdict, Pell has the dubious distinction of being the senior most Catholic official convicted of a sexual offenses.
Ironically his conviction comes on the heels of Pope Francis’ Vatican summit on the problem of sexual abuse in the church.
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Inherited Histories Explode in Dynamite ‘Marys Seacole’ Off-Broadway: REVIEW
Inherited Histories Explode in Dynamite ‘Marys Seacole’ Off-Broadway: REVIEW
When “I’m Every Woman” rings out triumphantly over Marys Seacole, an astonishing, history-exploding new play by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Whitney Houston has never sounded so apt. And not simply because every member of this remarkable six-woman cast walks around in the same pair of sensible pink sneakers.
The subject of Drury’s play, which opens off-Broadway tonight at Lincoln Center’s LCT3, is Mary Seacole, a Jamaican-born healer, businesswoman, and author of an 1857 travel memoir. After Florence Nightingale refused her services, Seacole set up her own hotel to care for British soldiers during the Crimean War. Victorian Britain came to revere her, to the extent that it could a creole woman. “If you don’t know who she is,” Drury’s script reads, “look her the f**k up.”
Audiences will know a great deal more about her by the end of these electrifying 90 minutes. They’ll also be compelled to reckon, in ways both thrilling and primal, with mortality, motherhood, ancestral and colonial legacies, and no less than what it means to be any kind of woman.
Mary (a searing Quincy Tyler Bernstine) introduces herself from a modest pedestal, heaving off her shoulders the weight of untold histories to give it to us straight. “I am the only historian of myself and my accomplishments, and so I shall try to speak from my own experience, simply,” as she later puts it. Mary soon sheds her 19th-century finery to reveal present-day nurse’s scrubs, in which she’ll change the sheets of a dying woman who’s just shit the bed.
With one step off Mary’s pedestal, Drury traces an ancestral line between a woman renowned for tending to British sons and daughters to an immigrant service provider tasked with both emotional labor and dirty work no one else wants to do. In both centuries, Mary is serving white women (and men) who amount to equal part patron and succubus — furnishing her means to survive while siphoning off her human dignity. Ultimately it’s the same shit, different era.
Drury bends, suspends, and ultimately shatters conventions of time and space altogether, in order to tease out threads of inheritance systematically overlooked by the churn of western history. Somehow the play is also a total hoot. This is a spectacular feat, accomplished with a sharp sort of expressionism by director Lileana Blain-Cruz. A nurse’s station transforms into a rum-soaked bar at a convalescent resort on Jamaican shores. The glass partition to a waiting room also demarcates a liminal space of elegiac memories.
A maternal woman in Victorian black, referred to in the script as ‘Drury’ or spirit Mary, affixes Mary with a bluetooth earpiece when she steps into the present, a first puncture through time that lands with a laugh. Mary’s ancestral mother proceeds to haunt her with sporadic dropped phone calls. Yes, history, it seems, has Mary’s number on speed dial. It’s just the wry sort of gesture that makes Marys Seacole so exhilarating to watch, waiting to see what facet of the truth it’s about to reveal next.
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(photos: julieta cervantes)
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