RightsideShirts.org: A Non-Profit T-Shirt Company

Boston/San Francisco Based Arts Education T-Shirt Company "Makes Good:" | http://www.rightsideshirts.org |  Rightside Shirts Empowers Art Programs for Schools, Parents and Local Youth Featuring Co-Founders Jeff White and Dylan Enright About Rightside Shirts Rightside Shirts' mission is to support youth art education through showcasing children's creative talents. All of our shirts are designed by students in local grade schools, and 100% of our profits are donated back to the designer's school to fund art programs and supplies. School budgets have been cut in many places in light of recent economic circumstances--art programs are usually the first to go. Kids, who perhaps contain the most powerful creative energy of anyone, deserve the chance to explore and enjoy art. With...

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Margaret Cho: On Topping Trans* Queer Political Correctness | Bitch Flicks

Margaret Cho: On Topping Trans* Queer Political Correctness | Bitch Flicks by Jaye Johnson   “I refer to myself as gay, but I’m married to a man.”                                                                                       – Margaret Cho        Margaret Cho. Photo: MargaretCho.com. I’m the One That I Want: Can Queer and Trans* Folks Really Reclaim the Word “Tranny?” Let me begin by saying I’m queer-identified....

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Happy #LGBTHistoryMonth! Check Out this Playlist

#LGBTHistoryMonth – The #LGBTHM Playlist by Jaye Johnson “‘Cause love’s such an old fashioned word/And love dares you to care for The people on the edge of the Night/And love dares you to change our way of/Caring about ourselves”                              – from “Under Pressure,” Queen and David Bowie In the United States, October Is LGBT History Month LGBT History Month fills the month of October with celebrations of those we love, those we have unfortunately lost, and those of us who are valued here, now and always. The month-long holiday commemorates LGBT persons of experience and is particularity related to civil rights and...

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Pride Western Australia Celebration to be Held in November

Pride Western Australia Celebration Events to Include Sneaky Sound System, DJ Jewel Date/Location: Russell Square, Northbridge Saturday 2nd November 2013 by Jaye Johnson “If the PRIDE PARADE is the rainbow, then PRIDE CELEBRATION is the pot of gold at the end of it!” - Pride WA Pride Western Australia (Pride WA) is Western Australia’s largest LGBTI community Pride organization and festival organizer. This week, the group announced its annual November PRIDEFEST lineup which is stellar, as usual. Whether it’s drag parties, Pride events, or gatherings like its February FAIRDAY celebration in Hyde Park, when it comes to Gay Pride, the Aussies go big. Centered in Perth and taking place throughout Western Australia, PRIDEFEST is a nearly month-long affair (well, okay…is three weeks...

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HerGlitter.com: Exclusive Interview With Dreya Weber

We're so excited to share our first podcast with you -- Actress/Writer/Filmmaker/Aeriel Dance Specialist & Fitness Mentor Dreya Weber set aside some time to chat.  Click here to listen to our exclusive interview! ...

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Happy Birthday, Julie Andrews!

AGay Icon and LGBTQ Ally we know is enjoying her special day today... Julie Andrews Happy Birthday to English film and stage actress, singer, author, theatre director, and dancer Julie Andrews! ...

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Mindshare & Memory: LGBT Slam Poems and Videos

Grok These, Please: Queer Slam Poems and Creative Poetry Videos Praising and Raising our Work: On Mindshare and Memory Riveting. Emo. Uplifting. Heartbreaking. Heart-opening. Poetry heals, helps and heartens all who encounter its majesty, power, artistry. When a poem is passed from hand to hand, eye to eye, heart to heart, soul to soul, the bearer and the receiver are forever changed. Writer Neil Hilborn’s touching performance in his slam poem “OCD” has recently gone viral, bringing to mind the many LGBTQIA poets and creatives in our midst with their own stories of love and life. Slam poems and artistic poetry performance videos dovetail so nicely into the framework of social media, aka “Short Attention Span Theater.”...

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Warpaint Movie Review

“All that I know is I’m breathing.” - From one of the songs on the “Warpaint” soundtrack Carey and Audrey, the two totes adorbs heroines in Al Benoit’s coming-of-age girl-girl drama “Warpaint” fall delightfully in line with the 20-something year old indie filmmaker’s aesthetic, in that there is (seemingly) no aesthetic—that’s how seamless this fully Kickstarter-funded production is. In her own words, here’s a nice little backgrounder from the director.   “Warpaint, a short film, tells the story of Carey and Audrey, two seventeen year old girls who fall in love over a summer at their parents lake houses. Warpaint was a passion project, inspired by a someone very close to me. We made it on a very minimal budget and a tight...

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Russia Introduces Bill To Remove Gay Parenting Rights

Source “Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.” - Alexandr Solzehnitsyn “Waves of protests surrounded Vladimir Putin’s return to power as Russia’s President in March 2012. Since then, parliament has passed so many new laws restricting civil liberties that some people now call it the ‘mad printer.’” - Amnesty International Wire (Amnesty.org) Russia’s Civil Liberties Record: Getting Worse and Worse In Word & Deed “Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn According to the Associated Press, Russian State Duma Deputy Zhuravlev (Putin’s United Russia Party/parliamentary caucus) is introducing a law making “nontraditional sexual orientation” viable grounds to remove...

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Funny As In‘Ha-Ha:’ Stand Out National Queer Comedy Search

    Funny As In‘Ha-Ha:’ Stand Out National Queer Comedy Search Queeriously Funny Business: Snarky LGBT Tweets & Peeps “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” — Joan Didion There’s funny as in “funny…” and funny as in “Ha-ha….” To revamp Lady Gaga’s mama-musings, let’s “thank God and the Gays”that we get to enjoy both meanings, with a smirk on tap. Changing “funny-looking, acting, or being” into something we can all laugh about is a straight-up Survival 101 tactic, and LGBTQ folks are living, breathing comedy maestros. To get by in the world and turn the party, you almost have to be. Stand Out: The National Queer Comedy Search is looking for the best of the best in “LGBT-owned and operated” jokes and...

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