Peep Show, Artemis Chase’s drag/cabaret showcase (read: masterpiece), started off in epic fashion, bringing in New York superstars Sherry Vine and Joey Arias, and, since, the popular event continues to raise the drag bar. Each month, Artemis recruits–and is approached by–wildly diverse local and out-of-town talent, consistently assembling impressive line-ups. Peep Show, at Red Cap [...]

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San Francisco’s Prism Comics, a nonprofit organization that promotes LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) creators, characters, themes and readers in the comic book field, is seeking submissions for its 2010 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. The QPG was established to assist in the publication and promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender comics.
Established in 2005, the [...]

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The folks at Disko Warp Records will bring their refined palates’ worth of Euro-dance, happy hardcore and beat-happy jams to Ground Kontrol tomorrow night for the official pre-party for Kumoricon 2010!
In celebration of Oregon’s largest anime convention, Disko Warp is inviting Oregon’s sexy, nerdy, anime-loving queers to Ground Kontrol for an evening of radical video [...]

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Just a couple of weeks ago, Portland-by-way-of-Hawaii crooner Niki Villiarimo journeyed down to San Francisco to audition for American Idol for the second time in three years. Having come off of a stirring third place finish in Red Cap Garage’s first Portland Idol competition in late July (a competition won by the very deserving Tamra [...]

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The cover of the latest issue of Veronica, released in stores today, premieres Kevin Keller into the world of Archie Comics. Kevin is romantically pursued by Veronica, but…
“It’s nothing against her,” he tells Jughead when he refuses her advances. “I’m gay.”
The news was first announced in April, when Archie co-CEO John Goldwater told The Washington [...]

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Openly gay Jane Lynch, Eric Stonestreet, who plays gay, and the gay-inclusive comedy Modern Family all won Emmys Sunday night. Openly gay Glee creator Ryan Murphy was also honored for his writing on the show.
The evening marked a big step in gay-inclusive or openly gay characters and actors receiving honors at the Emmys, pitting Glee [...]

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I was supposed to be blogging about television, wasn’t I? I mean, that was my pitch. “I watch so much television, and it just keeps getting gayer and gayer,” I said. And yet here I sit, months after being given the green light to blog about TV, and I haven’t said a peep about it. [...]

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Star columnist Nick Mattos pontificated grandly in the latest issue of Just Out on transgender author and artist Shannon Belthor’s impending reading tonight at In Other Words Books and Resources, as did he herald the book from which she’ll be reading, Shape-shifter: An Awakening on the Paths of Art and Gender.
“Over the course of 25 [...]

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Don’t forget about the Pink Martini tickets we’re giving away, people! Drawing is this afternoon, and winners will be announced in the COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS BLOG, as well as our FACEBOOK PAGE.
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We’ve come to the conclusion that we do not feel normal about ourselves if we do not hold some sort of ticket [...]

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Ever since the Triple Whammy Ticket Giveaway 2010 winners were announced yesterday at 2 p.m., we’ve felt empty – like something was missing. Something important. Something we could not do without. Then we realized it has been almost 24 whole hours that we didn’t have some kind of ticket giveaway happening down here at Just [...]

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