B. Scott Settles Discrimination Lawsuit With BET, Viacom
Media personality B. Scott has finally reached a settlement with BET and parent company Viacom over a controversial workplace discrimination lawsuit he filed in the summer of 2013.
Raffy Ermac
www.advocate.com/politics/2015/02/20/b-scott-settles-discrimination-lawsuit-bet-viacom
Kiss & Tell: Show Us Your Love Pics And Win A Trip To San Francisco
The photos keep on pouring into the GayCities Kiss Contest. Kissing in a field, snogging in bed, at party, or over the dinner table. If there’s a place to lock lips, GayCities members have found it, recorded it, and uploaded it to our annual Valentine’s kiss photo contest.
And it’s easy to see why. Not only do you show the world your love and affection. You also get a chance to win a fantastic prize: a complementary San Francisco vacation, including a two-night stay in the Marriott Marquis 2,000-square-foot Presidential Suite.
So join in on the fun and enter your own images before Feb. 27 for a chance to win.
Chris Bull
Neil Patrick Harris Tells Jimmy Kimmel About His Home's Secret Magic Room: VIDEO
A couple of weeks ago we told you about a video tour you could watch of Neil Patrick Harris’ Harlem home, courtesy of Architectural Digest. If you watched the video, you got a glimpse of his room dedicated to antique “retro” magic. Harris appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the other night and Kimmel wanted to know more about it, and Harris was only too happy to oblige. For starters, the room is hidden, which serves double-duty of appealing to Harris’ appreciation for Scooby Doo-like secret passages and of keeping the kids out until they’re older.
You can watch the interview, and perhaps get some ideas for your own home design projects, AFTER THE JUMP…
Christian Walters
RWA 2015 – LGBT Nominations
Rome Web Awards 2015 – LGBT Nominations.
'Truth or Dare' Gives Gay Virginia Basketballer Perfect Coming-Out Moment
Hunter Fromang, a center for Randolph-Macon College’s top-ranked basketball team, came out to his friends and teammates through an innocent game of ‘truth or dare.’
Raffy Ermac
Meet Florence Henri, The Under-Acknowledged Queen Of Surrealist Photography
Think about surrealism and a few names inevitable spring to mind — André Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Hans Arp and Yves Tanguy. Yet an upcoming exhibition at Jeu de Paume is honoring a pioneering surrealist photographer whose influence, like her work itself, remains cast in shadows.
Florence Henri was born in New York in 1893 but spent most of her artistic career in Paris, moving there 1925 following the death of both her parents. First interested in painting, Henri immersed herself in the visual languages of geometric abstraction and cubism, both of which would factor into her photographic approach. After around two years, Henri grew tired of paint, and, on the suggestion of her friends and avid photographers László Moholy-Nagy and his wife Lucia Moholy, taught herself the ways of the camera. Henri picked up the basic technical and visual principles of photography. And, following the economic crash of 1929, she opened up a commercial photo studio in Paris to get by.
Composition 1928 Florence Henri Gelatin silver print period, 27 x 37.1 cm. Museum Folkwang, Essen. Florence Henri © Galleria Martini & Ronchetti
Henri’s prop of choice was the mirror — using the common object as a surrealist tool to disrupt perception, disorient the viewer and multiply her subject matter into infinity ambiguity. Her photographs, which included self portraits, compositional still lifes, artist portraits, nudes, photomontages, photo collages, were often reminiscent of Cubist paintings, with disjointed reflections complicating the space so even straight forward depictions become uncanny meditations.
Somewhat associated with her fascination with mirrors, Henri also toyed with her own identity, revamping her persona with through costumes, makeup and pose with every shot. “It’s obvious that self-portraits have something to do with a search for identity but Henri’s are particularly tilted that way,” William Wilson, the erstwhile Los Angeles Times art critic, wrote in 1992. “In one she saw herself as a bohemian tomboy, in the next she’s an earth-mother peasant in a babushka. It was fairly easy to lose track of oneself in the floating world of the international avant-garde, especially if you were a woman and an artist.”
Self-portrait, 1928, Gelatin silver print period, 39.3 x 25.5 cm.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek. Florence Henri © Galleria Martini & Ronchetti
Her most well-known work is a self-portrait, in which Henri sits before a mirror, dolled up almost as if in drag. Two silver balls lay reflected up against the mirror, equivocal symbols of both testicles and breasts. Henri, influential in both her artistic style and personal styles, toyed with gender binaries, using her personal appearance to emphasize the performative nature of gender. The artist was married to a Swiss house servant, but went on to have other relationships with both men and women, including a longtime affair with artist and model Margarete Schall.
Henri established herself as a formidable photographer, and remained consistent in her work up until World War II. Then her work declined considerably, both due to lack of materials and the prohibitions imposed under the Nazi occupation. Henri briefly returned to painting, but her central period of output remained in the 1920s and 1930s. Her compositions, simultaneously warm, playful, clever and inquisitive, set the stage for future explorations into the limits of photography, or lack thereof.
Florence Henri’s work will be on view from February 24 until May 17, 2015, at Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/20/florence-henri_n_6723024.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices
Zachary Quinto on why closeted A-list movie actors don't come out
‘I guess it’s just a matter of what people are willing to sacrifice for what they consider to be success’
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www.gaystarnews.com/article/zachary-quinto-why-closeted-list-movie-actors-dont-come-out200215
Study Suggests Attractive Men Are More Selfish
We’ve all been there: we were introduced to that really good looking guy at a party or at the club or some other social setting, and even though he was hotter than a rooster in socks the more he talked the more turned off you got as it became clear that he was kind of a self-focused ass. According to a study at Brunel University London this isn’t just happenstance. Rather, attractive men as a whole tend to be more selfish.
The study, titled “Bodily Attractiveness and Egalitarianism are Negatively Related in Males” and published in Evolutionary Psychology, took 125 male and female participants, scored them on generalized attractiveness measures, and then took part in an economics experiment where they were asked to share money with someone else. The results found that men who were ranked as more attractive tended to have a bias towards selfishness. The research also found that attractiveness was at least as important as wealth when it came to attitudes of altruism and egalitarianism. Interestingly, the same was not true for women.
Lead researcher Dr. Michael Price warned against taking the findings as gospel, however, saying:
The correlation between attractiveness and selfishness was nowhere close to being perfect, and many very attractive men will also be very altruistic and egalitarian.
Additionally, these attitudes tended to be subconscious, and being made aware of their biases helped men act against them and engage in more generosity.
Christian Walters
www.towleroad.com/2015/02/study-suggests-attractive-men-are-more-selfish.html
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