Todd Gloria & The EQCA Equality Awards: Striving For a Healthy, Just, and Fully-Equal World
~ by joel martens ~ Equality California (EQCA) is the nation’s largest statewide civil rights organization. Its nearly 800,000 members work to bring the voices of LGBTQ people and our allies into the institutions and power centers throughout California and across the United States. They do this by “electing pro-equality leaders, passing pro-equality legislation in […]
Recognizing Our Strengths at The Stonewall Humanitarian Awards
by tony reverditto – Fifty years ago to the month on June 28, 1969 there was a moment at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall bar in New York City that would change LGBTQ history. When the police raided the bar, Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans-woman, was present and resisted arrest by throwing a shot glass at […]
Diversionary’s Rock n’ Roll Rebellion Ball and Alexandra Billings – The Transformation Continues
by joel martens – They say that out of great pain, great beauty can emerge. Those of us who work and play in the arts have borne witness to that transformation repeatedly through theatre, music, spoken word and all the myriad forms out there. It’s often a window to the inner workings of our human […]