Compiled by Special Correspondent Thea Lim, with Guest Contributors Robin Akimbo, Alaska B, Michelle Cho and Elisha Lim
…continued from Part 1!

Vogue Evolution is all about getting folks to recognise that queer culture is responsible for sooo much of contemporary dance.  So it’s a radical history lesson – what’s VE’s relationship to Paris is Burning?

Michelle: I [...]

Compiled by Special Correspondent Thea Lim, with Guest Contributors Robin Akimbo, Alaska B, Michelle Cho and Elisha Lim

For a show that’s had us raising our eyebrows over their representations of race, gender and sexuality for over a year, Season 4 of America’s Best Dance Crew (ABDC) kicked things up a notch by showcasing Vogue Evolution, [...]

by Guest Contributor Andrés Duque, originally published at Blabbeando

The Austin American-Statesman reported yesterday that a local Hispanic contractors’ organization had removed a video from its website and given apologies after a local television station received complaints that it contained demeaning portrayals of gays (”Hispanic contractors’ group pulls video called demeaning to gays“).
The U.S. Hispanic Contractors [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

Thursday morning, I chanced upon an ESPN piece on Disco Demolition Night. Growing up a baseball fan, the phrase initially conjures up mostly chuckles: the last great Bill Veeck promotion; a well-meaning bust that it drew more than 59,000 people to watch a typically moribund Chicago White Sox team in [...]

by Guest Contributor Monica Roberts, originally published at TransGriot

One of the memes that has irritated many Black people gay, transgender and straight since the Prop 8 debacle has been the ‘Black people are more homophobic’ one.
You’re kidding, right?
Every time I’m watching TV I see predominately white ministers such as James Dobson, other white fundamentalists, white [...]

by Guest Contributor Monica Roberts, originally published at Transgriot

I was checking out the recent story of transman Devin Alston-Smith and the drama that ensued between him and his local Zeta chapter.
It made me recall a March 2007 post I wrote in which I asked the question are the Divine Nine frats and sororities ready to [...]