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...More absurdly, last month a book called Read Me a Story, Stella was flagged as inappropriate in Alabama, seemingly because of the author’s name — Marie-Louise Gay....
...She discarded all her rigid, opinionated bigotry to protect this black, gay guy.”...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...I suspect the last thing David Hockney would want for his California paintings of the 1960s would be for them to be seen as manifestos of gay liberation....
...“I have N.E.R.D tees that immediately take me back to the summer of 2005: good, carefree times in my life,” he says....
...He sees graffiti as an exercise in community and a refutation of the same social contract that the late David Graeber, his idol, railed against in his books. It’s bigger than him....
...What happens next is a riot, a crazed story in the style of vintage David Cronenberg but given depth and pathos by two astonishing performances....
...For a story dominated by the viewpoint of the title character, it’s hard to imagine a more fitting voice: Whishaw, winner of an Emmy, a Bafta, a Golden Globe, is himself gay and has interpreted gay characters...
...He attended a protest earlier this week outside the Stonewall Inn, the site of gay civil rights demonstrations in 1969, and invited a friend who works as a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs....
...For “Ringo's Big Birthday Show” he has summoned musicians including fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, All Starr Band guitarist Joe Walsh, Gary Clark Jr, Sheryl Crow, Sheila E and Ben Harper to give performances...
...Plus the city itself is super-gay, ostentatious and moody like David Lynch or Lana Del Ray.”...
...he is gay....
...The openly gay Harvey Milk was running for elected office in San Francisco....
...These soon reported multimillion sales, topped by Gerhard Richter’s “Versammlung” (1966) photo painting, sold by Palermo collectors Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi for $20m through David Zwirner gallery....
...The three new board nominees — Robert E. Knowling, Jr., currently chairman of Eagles Landing Partners, KPMG veteran Louis P....
...Part of the reason for this concentration on narration is that the play is explicitly a modern gay American rewrite of E.M. Forster’s Howards End . . ....
...Weeks earlier, David Attenborough, also 92, made a rousing call for respect of our shared environment at COP24, the UN conference on climate change, in Poland....
...Public outcry was immense and news coverage widespread for what town councillor Kieron Mallon describes as a “David and Goliath story”....
...On the flipside, here’s climate scientist Michael E Mann on why he’s no fan of the doomsday message Mr Wallace-Wells employs....
...Before Mr McGuinness’ death earlier this year, Mr Paisley Jr also praised him for “saving lives” during the peace process. He has expressed anti-gay views similar to those held by his father....
...It is cordially disliked by much of the gay Christian movement for its insistence on gay celibacy....
...The driver was identified by police as James Alex Fields Jr, 20, of Ohio....
...Because it’s a new David Mamet play. What’s that supposed to mean? It means that men are irredeemably evil, violent animals and that liberal civilisation is a gigantic con. (Pause.)...
...The funny story was that I actually quite fancied David’s best friend Jerome first, and then Jerome let me down easy that he was gay. He’s now one of my best friends and I married David.”...
...Martin E....
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