ALIST
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GLAAD Acceptance Speech: The View’s Joy Behar & Sex & City Cynthia Nixon
Joy Behar recipient of this year’s Excellence in Media Award reflects about how the gays impacted her comedic style and her life. She keeps the crowd laughing from the beginning until her George Bush punch line at the end.
From Afterelton.com
“This year out actress Cynthia Nixon was honored with the Vito Russo Award by GLAAD. She gave a thoughtful and stirring speech about gays and lesbians as moral leaders, and if you haven’t seen the video you should check it out.”
More Gay Movies & Entertainment News
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A List: the glaad awards 2010
Romeo Redwine goes behind the scenes of the 2010, glaad awards. Interviewing the who’s who of gay entertainment and the allies that keep us visible and fighting.
Looking back at last year’s glaad Awards to now, there was undoubtedly a vast improvement. Last year’s show was great but glaad Awards 2010 blew everyone out of the water with star power and enough musical numbers to think you were on Broadway. Gay Icon, Alan Cumming performed a medley of current songs with a sarcastic gay twist, the Pride Chorus gave us a “Glee Moment” and the cast of Hair ( perhaps the most diverse cast I have ever seen) belted out their signature song, “Let the Sunshine in” coming into the audience to connect. The celebrity presenters were on point which means the writer’s of the show were on point. Congrats writers!
Joy Behar and Cynthia Nixon gave moving speeches and it was a GREAT night had by all. Amazing networking and an even better dance party.
Everyone could agree that the highlight of the evening was Will Phillips a 10 year old boy beyond his years who delivered a moving speech calling on President Obama to get to work. Go Will! Happy glaad awards!
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Stephanie Rankin hosts ALIST: Out Music 2009
These are just snippets from the OUT MUSIC PRESHOW AND CELEBRITIES! Don’t miss the FIRST RAINBOW COLLECTIVE PROJECT OUT MUSIC AWARDS BEST OF MOMENTS TONIGHT ON LOGO’S NEW NOW NEXT POP LAB. @ 7p.
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ALIST: Just as We Are Exhibition
Romeo Redwine takes us behind the scenes of the JUST AS WE ARE Campaign with photographer Charlie T. The JUST AS WE ARE Campaign features 38 LGBT potraits. Hear from the photograher and subjects about the experience.
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An Evening with Glee’s Jane Lynch
If you are in New York, you are well aware of the angst of depending on the train to get you anyplace on time. The MTA(Metropolitan Transit Authority) really
stands for Make Alternative Plans. After sitting in the tunnel waiting, I thought I had clearly missed my opportunity to meet Jane Lynch.
Luckily, I arrived at The Center with moments to spare. The room was dim but I spotted her blond locks from a distance. A crowd of adoring fans
surrounded her awaiting to meet her glance for a moment before they swooped in. In the crowd, people stood quoting her and drinking wine.
I pushed my way through in anticipation.
Part One
My camera had died the day before so the only thing that remained was my SD (Standard Definition) mini dv camera. This was going to be a disaster.
The room was dim but an excited man in line broke the ice by asking me about my favorite Jane Lynch movie. He clearly saw the anxiety on my face.
I was on a mission. I didn’t want to talk about Jane’s’ films at a time where I was trying to work up the courage to ask her to send a hello to the fans at
The Rainbow Collective.
I was at the front and suddenly I started speaking coherently. It was a rather magical experience. Sue Slyvester was speaking to me and she wasn’t barking
she was attentive, gracious and warm. She even agreed to give a shout out. Yes! With a little color adjustment, we would have our greeting.
Remember my chatty friend? He suggested that he record it. Sadly, he took a photo instead and I got nothing. Well, not really.
I got to meet Jane Lynch and sit in the front row for a hilarious conversation. So in pure SD, here she is. Jane Lynch.
Please don’t miss any part of it. She talks about her roles in Glee, 40 year old virgin, Best of Show and Julia and Julia.
She does it all in perfect Jane Lynch comedic timing.
Part Two
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AList: Bleu Magazine Launch Party
Bleu Magazine celebrates its 3rd Anniversary! Boy, does Bleu know how to have a party. Why do we love this magazine? Bleu offers amazing spreads with some of the hottest urban artists while maintaining their committment to community and diversity. In this episode, we join them at The Greenhouse for a celebration featuring Def Jam’s Eletrik Red, Flavor of Love’s “Like Dat’, Christina Mendez and Talia Coles.
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Alist: Staceyann Chin’s The Other Side of Paradise
In this episode of AList, we visit Barnes and Noble for Staceyann Chin’s book release for “The Other Side of Paradise. The celebrated poet reads from her novel and
greets fans. If you haven’t gotten Staceyann Chin’s new book, The Other Side of Paradise, then you may be missing what is the best novel yet.As a wordsmith, Staceyann knows how to engage and carry the reader on a journey. If you have ever heard her poetry, you will know that her work is honest and thought provoking which this novel fulfils from beginning to end.
For the official press release…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INTRODUCING A TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FROM ICONIC PERFORMANCE ARTIST STACEYANN CHIN THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE
By Staceyann Chin“A deeply personal, beautifully written memoir that takes us down a young woman’s road to discovery with all its struggles and heartbreak and ultimate joy. The Other Side of Paradise is a salve and a guidebook for all of our hearts.”
—Tim Robbins“Set in a Jamaica far from the tourist brochures, The Other Side of Paradise is Chin’s rich and nuanced story of family and abandonment, love and brutality, and a child’s struggle to survive and find a home that will accept her. This is A Portrait of the Artist written for our age. I love this book—and I am completely hamstrung by the feelings it evokes.”
—Walter Mosley“Staceyann’s courage, sensitivity and bravery are exposed on these vulnerable pages. Captured is the fire, passion and light I experience when she performs. Liberating, beautiful and life-affirming, The Other Side of Paradise is simply incredible.”
—Russell Simmons, author of Do You!“ shows me a culture I knew far too little about – the everyday life of young people in Jamaica and the threat of violence looming over anyone who might be too independent or queer or outrageous. How wonderful that this outrageous, talented, determined woman has given us her story.”
—Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina and CavedwellerTo say that celebrated poet, performer and political activist Staceyann Chin is a force to be reckoned with would be putting it mildly. An opinionated figure, she is beloved the world over and recognized perhaps most famously for her appearance on both Broadway and HBO for Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam. Her work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Jane and on 60 Minutes. She was also a guest on Oprah to discuss homosexuality in other cultures.
THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE (Scribner; April 14, 2009) is Staceyann Chin’s long awaited chance to tell her story in writing. Born in Jamaica on Christmas day, 1972, Chin’s arrival into the world was unexpected, as nobody even knew her mother was pregnant to begin with. In the absence of a mother or father to look after her, Chin’s grandmother becomes her and her brother, Delano’s, primary caretaker and biggest advocate.
Despite having their fair share of difficult times, this makeshift but loving family struggled together and Chin felt safe with her grandmother and brother at her side. But when the family’s financial needs forced them to move into a shared household, Chin learned the hard way to repress her vivacious personality in order to blend with her environment. Eventually, events conspired to permanently separate the three. The result is a tale of loss and family, or change and survival.
Later, as Chin came of age in a succession of homes—some dysfunctional, some welcoming and some merely adequate, she developed an unbreakable sense of self. Having always been a lively and spirited child, Chin grew into a bright, headstrong young woman, clearly on the verge of carving out a bigger existence for herself. While her life has had many twists and turns, including a confrontation with the man she believes to be her father and her dangerous coming out in college, she has remained courageous in the face of adversity. Told with grace, humor and courage, THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE is an unforgettable story of triumph against the odds.
About the Author
Staceyann Chin is a fulltime artist. A resident of New York City and a Jamaican National, she has been an “out poet and political activist” since 1998. From the rousing cheers of the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe to one woman shows Off Broadway to poetry workshops in Denmark and London to co writer and performer in the Tony nominated, Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Chin credits the long list of “things she has done” to her grandmother’s hard working history and the pain of her mother’s absence
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AList: The Center’s Women’s Event 11
Inspired by the Clinton’s presidential inauguration, the Center hosted its first Women’s Event gala dinner and dance at the Hammerstein Ballroom in 1998. In 2008 the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center celebrates with the cast of The L Word and notable women in television and entertainment.
Honorees included:
Ilene Chaiken Creator, Writer and Executive Producer of “The L Word”
Stephanie Gibbons Executive Vice President of Marketing and On-Air Promotions, FX
Lisa Sherman Executive Vice President and General Manager, Logo
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Alist: Dance Africa 2009 at BAM
In this episode, we visit BAM for Dance Africa 2009 filled with food, art, culture and of course dance. It’s a day of culture and independent artists celebrating the continent and all its riches!
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Alist: Out Music’s Stonewall Music Anniversary Celebration at The Nokia Theater
The Nokia Theater is taken over for a night of unforgetable musicians and artists and guess what…they are all gay! Yeah! Out Music, the premier organization for LGBTQ artists, brings more than 10 talented artists to the heart of the city to rock out for the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Don’t miss Jen Urban and the Box and Montal fish, Jasper James, Deepa Soul and more. With exclusive interviews from The Big Gay Sketch Show’s Johnny McGovern and veteran gender illusionist Dred.
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