Tag: pride month

  • 10 Songs by LGBTQ+ Artists to Add to Your Playlists

    10 Songs by LGBTQ+ Artists to Add to Your Playlists

    As Pride Month winds down and all of the corporate rainbow “support” goes into hibernation, here are 9 songs by LGBTQ+ artists to add to your playlists to jam to for the rest of the year.  This multi-genre list a celebration of the growing visibility and reach of LGBTQ+ artists.…

  • Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Crisis: Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”

    Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Crisis: Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”

    My memories are a sacred place. Some may say I am addicted to nostalgia, and maybe, on some level, I am. But aren’t most people? My visitations to yesteryear are not rooted in the longing to relive the past but rather a way for me to time travel and have…

  • RAHSAAN PATTERSON: in celebration of

    RAHSAAN PATTERSON: in celebration of

    In 1984, one of my favorite songs was Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out For A Hero.” I was just eight years old, but I fuckin’ LOVED the drama of the anthemic song. I would lip-sync this song when no one was around. I knew adults didn’t think it was “ok” for…

  • Our Pride Is A Vibe: This Playlist Will Live Forever

    Our Pride Is A Vibe: This Playlist Will Live Forever

    This playlist of music mostly of Queer identified artists, is for us. For the student organizers. For the dancing queens. For the freedom fighters . This playlist is for our rage. For our joy. For our how and the worlds we build. This playlist will live forever.  We will live…

  • louie on LATV’s “Living Y Ready” Series

    louie on LATV’s “Living Y Ready” Series

    Throughout the month of June, LATV has been celebrating Pride Month with their Queer original series, Living Y Ready, a storytelling series that reframes the narrative around HIV through candid conversations and queer expression. Thank you LATV, for providing a platform where I can share my story and express my truth. Watch…

  • Ten House Tracks From the 90s that Will Lift Your Spirits the way Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” Does

    Ten House Tracks From the 90s that Will Lift Your Spirits the way Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” Does

    if you are up at this time like i am it is probably because you have been dancing in the privacy of your bedroom to beyoncé’s new track “break my soul.”  released as the lead single from her forthcoming album “renaissance,” scheduled for release on july 29th, “break my soul”…

  • Playlist: Our Pride Is Still A Vibe: Be Gay, Do Crimes

    Playlist: Our Pride Is Still A Vibe: Be Gay, Do Crimes

    happy pride month, y’all! be gay, do crimes!  pride is for us to define and redefine. if pride is spending with your crew sitting back watching youtube videos – that is a vibe. if pride is organizing and mobilizing with community – that is a vibe.  if pride is dancing…

  • I Changed My Mind About Community

    I Changed My Mind About Community

    Last year I broke up with the LGBTQ2 community–well the shallow gatekeepers that ravaged our collective understanding of what it means to hold identities at their intersections. Let me explain, I’ve always been queer, I went through so much struggle trying to understand who I am in this binary world.…

  • The Songs I Loved: RuPaul’s “Supermodel (You Better Work)”

    The Songs I Loved: RuPaul’s “Supermodel (You Better Work)”

    my mother worked for drug dealers. from monday – friday, regardless of how drunk or high she got the night before, she was up for work. i súplale this is where i got my work ethic and my ability to hold my liquor. because of my mother’s line of work…