Theblower gay
Performance: Gay Love Letters + Artist Talk
Exhibitions
Old Masonic Hall
In collaboration with Close Friends Collective
Left: Janie Stamm, Orange Blossom Baby (detail)
Wednesday, Feb 14, 2024 (5:30pm)
Celebrate this Valentine’s Day by enjoying a night of poetry and history, surrounded by Breck Create’s newest exhibition, In Plain Sight: Queer Rural Narratives from the Fluid and the Land. The event begins with informal artist talks from demonstrating artists Ben Cuevas and Janie Stamm. What follows is a time capsule of gay love, with letters and poems by Queer authors of the eleventh through twenty-first centuries read by the artists and Summit County collective members. Many of the love letters have a rural background, in keeping with the theme of In Plain Sight, and a small selection will be read by the authors. Kindle your intimate spirit by listening to literary art that ranges from sentimental, to profound, to even a tiny bit racy.
Special thanks to Mountain Pride and Breckenridge Backstage Theatre for support with outreach and casting.
Close Friends Collective is a queer common
Jack Heaphy
Being Gay at Dartmouth
Hello all- trust everyone's doing good. Things here are great, the weather is (very, very slowly) getting warmer, classes are fascinating, and I've started to find a steady routine for this term. With some extra period to reflect, I thought I'd chat about a core aspect of my Dartmouth experience, a specific component I was very worried about during my college decision process.
I identify as male lover, and when I was looking at different colleges, I remember feeling dense concern about the LGBTQ+ communities that existed at each school. I was never personally interested in joining many gay or gay organizations or clubs, but I wanted to make sure that I could still exist and be my loyal self without feeling judged or suffocated.
Here at Dartmouth, I would definitely state the gay presence is whatever you make it. Obviously our small pupil body means that there are fewer LGBTQ individuals in the area, but there are fewer people in general. Proportional to the student body, I was actually surprised by the amount of students at Dartmouth that identified as queer. In terms of campus involvement, there are plenty of opportunities to embrace and flaunt
Words and images by Noémie Blue
Below a cocktail bar on London’s busy Denmark Street, a stage has been decorated with homemade cotton ball clouds and tinfoil stars. It feels like an end-of-term celebration, a garden party, or like we’ve all piled inside our cool older sister’s bedroom to argue our latest university infatuation. In this intimate setting, we are welcomed into Déyyess’ world.
Originally from Canterbury, Kent, the young singer-songwriter grew an audience after posting reels captioned with viral stories of her unrequited crushes to snippets of her songs, inspired by My Bloody Valentine and Lady Gaga. The viral videos amassed millions of views on Instagram. Undoubtedly, this is how most of her fans tonight contain found her, their algorithm leading them to this gay girl side of the Internet.
She has just dropped her debut EP, ‘Claire’ and is impatient to finally link with her online audience in the flesh at her first (sold-out!) headline show. “I can’t believe you’re all here,” she says. “I feel favor you’ve all existed online for so long, and now you’re all here. I’m so delighted I found you, and you establish me, and we all get to be in a room together.”
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Gay Rights, Equal Protection, and the Classification-Framing Quandary
Abstract
Commentators and lower courts will speculate for some occasion on the actual holding and potential sweep of the Supreme Court's decision in Windsor v. United States [699 F.3d 169, 175 (2d Cir. 2012), aff'd, 133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013)], as well as how the Court might have resolved Perry v. Brown [671 F.3d 1052, 1063 (9th Cir. 2012), vacated and remanded sub nom. Hollingsworth v. Perry, 133 S. Ct. 2652 (2013)] on the merits.
Of at least equal and perhaps greater importance, however, is a subtle yet critical unresolved threshold question lurking in the background of these two decisions, as well as in numerous other cases percolating in the reduce courts regarding claims by queer and lesbian plaintiffs. This unresolved question is vital to mounting a successful equal protection challenge: is there any "discrimination" as equal protection precedents define that concept, and if so, what is the nature of the classification?
In this Article, I try to resolve the classification-framing quandary created by equal protection claims brought by gays and lesbians against laws falling into these latter two categor