Archive for November, 2009
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Maurice Runea and Romeo: The World in Trans with June Brown
Maurice Runea and Romeo Redwine sit down with friend and activist, Julienne “June” Brown to chat about transgender issues and the fight experiences dating and living as a transgender woman in New York. It is part one of an insightful chat with June about the world “through the lens of trans”. As usual, the boys keep it light and ask all the questions you ever wanted to know.
Part one
June discusses the reaction of people when they first find out about her sexuality and the misconceptions people have about transgender individuals.Part two
June discusses her a-ha moment and the process of transitioning. The boys weigh in on transphobia within the LGBTQ community, LGBTQ civil rights and June’s love life.
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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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Detour with Jeffrey: The Gay Rights Update
In this new web series, host Jeff Harden chats with the experts and the people about current social issues impacting our community. For the premiere episode, Jeff chats with The Power Online’s Jeff Campagna about steps toward civil rights for the LGBTQ population and specific actions impacting the future of gay legislation. Featuring commentary from Lady Gaga, Cynthia Nixon, Lt. Daniel Choi and footage from The Equality March 2009, episode one brings you up to date with gay rights now.
Visit thepoweronline.org
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Maurice Runea and Romeo Redwine: Secrets & Tips
Romeo Redwine is back with relationship tips to keep you on track. This week, Romeo talks about UNDERSTANDING.
Romeo Redwine and Maurice sit down for the remainder of their one on one session. This time! Romeo Redwine chats about a few secrets he has been holding onto and we finally find out what he really does on a daily basis. Its another funny moment as Maurice Runea asks the pertinent question, “How is Romeo qualified to give relationship tips. It’s another don’t miss show!
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Civil Rights cannot be brought to popular vote
The Popular Vote – Opinion
When I awakened this morning I was greeted by the sad news that the good people of Maine had been denied their rights. It was another tragedic day in the Gay Civil Rights struggle. Usually these disappointing moments are followed by my ‘hopeful positive and encouraging self’ giving my ‘disappointed bitter self’ a pep talk and that would have sufficed if I didn’t start think about the newly signed Matthew Shepard Act signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009. It would have been enough if I hadn’t thought about the brutal gay bashing of Jack Price in College Point, Queens. It would have been easy to digest if I didn’t think about the eleven year old boys, Jack Herrara and Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, that hung themselves because of gay taunting and bullying. It may have been ok if I didn’t remember that look in the eyes of the bi-national gay family who has to live apart most of the year with their 4 children waiting for their father to return when his VISA runs out. It may have been alright if didn’t remember the man with Leviticus tatooed to his arm like a badge of honor as he defended his friend a gay basher. Today, it is not alright.
With over 1.5 million in the gay marriage Maine fight coming from the National Organization for Marriage, 37 % more than the pro gay marriage side. I cringe to think that 47% of Maine had just supported blatant inequality. They had inadvertently supported the right to bully, harass, judge and kill. They had just bought 1.5 million dollars worth of unhappiness and torment. They just spent 1.5 million on destroying people’s lives. People don’t truly understand that their vote means that someone just got scoffed at when the presented their ‘gay family’ in public.
With another victory for “protecting marriage”, one child just pushed another because he thought she/she was gay. A gay or lesbian couple cries at the airport as he sends his partner back to his country. Someone has just been denied the ability to see his or her partner. Civil rights should not be voted on. If you have seen some of the colorful signs from the Tea Party supporters, you can only believe what would happen if everyone starting voting on one another’s civil rights.And for those saying, you don’t need marriage because civil unions are just a good. Don’t you dare tell me that civil unions are good enough. Don’t give me a lesser status and tell me, LGBTQ couples’ unions are not the same thing. I have sat through countless heterosexual weddings and all the lovely trappings that they experience. Marriage may be perhaps the biggest moment of their lives. I have endured the pomp, the pageantry and all the countless minute-by-minute updates. So, please don’t tell me that civil unions are enough. I want all the madness that everyone else gets to experience.
Before you do, you try calling Steven Spielberg a production assistant but tell him that he has all the same rights. You try telling Mayor Bloomberg he will be a councilman and tell him don’t worry you sill have the same rights as the mayor. Sounds ridiculous? Indeed, it is. One Maine Voter summed it all up clearly and succinctly. “Our relationship is between us. “How does that affect anybody else? It’s a personal thing.” said Carla Hopkins, 38, of Mount Vernon.
So stop voting on my civil rights.
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Maurice Runea The Show gets drag makeover with SuggaPieKoKo
They are back and causing more trouble than ever. Maurice and Romeo ambush the legendary SuggaPieKoKo for make-up tips and end up biting off more than they can chew. Ouch! It’s a LOL moment from beginning to the end. Romeo transforms into HoneyPieKoKo and it’s a transformation you cannot miss.
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Wanda Sykes The Show Every Saturday
Wanda Sykes is coming to network television in a new late night show that is sure to have you in stitches. Sykes, a cast member on The New Adventures of Old Christine and Curb Your Enthusiasm, wasn’t looking to host a talk show when Fox contacted her. She especially wasn’t that interested in a network job because of the potential limitations in language and topics. However, the recent election changed her mind.
“I was like, ‘Wow, I really wish I had an outlet where I could go out there and just speak on this on a week-to-week basis and be current.’ And I thought, ‘You know what? This talk show … I can do that. I can do the things like we did on Chris Rock.’ And that seemed like what they were getting at, what they wanted. And so I’m like, ‘This is the time. This is the time to jump into it.’” Sykes says.
Executive producer Eddie Feldmann says the show will look at what has happened in the world through Sykes’ eyes.
Don’t miss The Wanda Sykes Show Saturdays at 10p on FOX.
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LGBTQ Artists are Celebrated as the Out Music Awards Nominations Are Revealed
OUTMusic is dedicated to honoring, supporting and advocating on behalf of under represented openly (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Recording Artist & Performers. The organization was founded by life partners Dan Martin and Michael Biello over 18 years ago to provide a safe and supportive environment for LGBT recording artists & performers. The mission of OUTmusic is to ensure that underrepresented OUT artists/entertainers have equal and inclusive presence in the mainstream entertainment industry;an industry that has fostered the silent “don’t ask don’t tell”policy. This policy has perpetuated the stigma of homophobia & discrimination in the entertainment industry,the military and the work place. OUTmusic works to put an end to homophobia in the entertainment industry and the world we live in.
This year, OUT MUSIC PRESENTS …….
THE 2009 OUTMUSIC AWARDS
DECEMBER 8, 2009
7:00 P.M.
THE GRAND BALLROOMOF THE LEGENDARY NEW YORK LANDMARK
WEBSTER HALL
125 East 11th Streetts: $25.00 Adv. $40.00 Door
To purchase tickets go to
OUTSTANDING ROCK SONG
Stewed Tomatoes Leather Daddy
Athena Reich “Love is Love”
Jen Urban & the Box “Let’s Ride”
Josh Zuckerman “Got Love?”
Phil Putnam “I’m No Prize”
OUTSTANDING POP SONG
Athena Reich “Love is Love”
Billie Myers “I Hope You’re Happy Now”
Ellen Rosner “Ready, Steady, GO”
Heiskell “Sick Of Nothing”
Rachael Sage “Too Many Women”
(from the FAME Soundtrack)OUTSTANDING HIP HOP/RAP SONG
Baron “Feel Like Fashion”
Jasper James “ROCKET”
Mack Misstress “Make it Bounce”
Soce, The Elemental Wizard “Grossed Out”
Tori Fixx “I’m the Same”OUTSTANDING R & B/SOUL SONG
Kalup Linzy presents “Asshole”
Nhojj “Love”
Robert Anton “Bigger Than Me”OUTSTANDING ELECTRO/DANCE SONG
Ari Gold “Where The Music Takes You”
Brian Kent “Breathe Life”
Christian Andreason “Running Back to You” (HITPLAY/Million Mile Mix)
Jason Walker “Can’t Stop” (Joey Negro Remix)
Lori Michaels “Meet Me At The Partay”OUTSTANDING FOLK/COUNTRY SONG
Blair Hansen & Vicci Martinez “Break Away” – (HANNAH FREE Soundtrack)
Crooked Willow “Fall Away” (Reprised)
Julie Clark “Growin’ Up”
Nick Granato “Who I Am”
Rachael Sage “Hunger In John”OUTSTANDING JAZZ SONG
Avi Wisnia “No Scrubs”
Lucy Smith “You Pause” – (HANNAH FREE Soundtrack)
Rachael Sage “Site-Seeing”
Steven Franz “Skins & Shirts”OUTSTANDING INSTRUMENTAL/SOUNDTRACK SONG
HANNAH FREE, Starring Sharon Gless “Goodby Rachel”
HANNAH FREE, Starring Sharon Gless “On the Lake”
HANNAH FREE, Starring Sharon Gless “Meadow Waltz”
Jon Gilbert Leavitt “Lullaby Valkyrie” (Lullaby (Walküre)
Jon Gilbert Leavitt “Love Theme from “Heels”OUTSTANDING CHORAL SONG
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus “Make Your Own Kind Of Music / New World Coming”
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus “We Looked To The Future”
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus “U.S.S. Metaphor Highlights”
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble: “The Lollipop Guild”
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus with Joan Baez “Swingin’ With The Saints”OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUAL SONG
Christian Andreason “I Belong to You”
Deepa Soul “Stand Together”
Levi Kreis “Stained Glass Window”
Sir Ivan “Kumbaya”OUTSTANDING THEATRE/CABARET/COMEDY SONG
Brian Wilbur Grundstrom Pepe! The Mail Order Monkey Musical – “Bridge Club”
D. C. Anderson “What’s Happened Since”
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus “My Gallant Crew”
Terese Genecco The Man I Love
Vontanner A Shangri-las GirlOUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL SONG
Caera “Suantrai” (Seothin Seotho)
Isle of Klezbos/Metropolitan Klezmer Miracle Medley: “Hasidic Nign/Poor Man’s Tune”
Lee Adam Wilshier “Last Of The Secret Agents”
SONiA of disappear fear “shorashim”
Sugarbeach “Mama I Love Her”OUTSTANDING PRODUCER
Guy B. “CoExist” (DJNB’s Club Video Mix)
Jon Gilbert Leavitt “Pride 2009″
Rachael Sage “Vertigo”
Scott Free “Equal”
Soce, The Elemental Wizard “Slippin Away”OUTSTANDING SONGWRITER
Athena Reich “Love is Love”
Dudley Saunders “Love Song for Jeffrey Dahmer”
Jeffrey Altergott “Balloons”
Julie Clark “Jacket”
Rachael Sage “Chandelier”OUTSTANDING SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Athena Reich “Love is Love”
Brian Kent “Whathca Doin To Me”
Jasper James “ROCKET”
Julie Clark “Courage of Our Convictions”
Kristi Martel “Photophobia”OUTMUSICIAN OF THE YEAR (Music + Activism)
Ari Gold “Transport Me”
Good Asian Drivers “Queer Nation”
Linq “Change the Picture”
San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Gabi’s Song – “Will It Always Be Like This?”
Scott Free “Free”OUTSTANDING VIDEO
Stewed Tomatoes “Leather Daddy”
Amanda Lepore “Cotton Candy”
Jasper James “ROCKET”
Jeffery Straker “Hypnotized”
Matt Alber “The End of The World”OUTSTANDING ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Athena Reich “Little Girl Dreams Little Girl Dreams”
Brian Kent “Breathe Life Breathe Life”
Dudley Saunders “Seventeen The Emergency Lane”
Julie Clark “Courage of Our Convictions Change Your Mind”
Telling on Trixie/ Derek Nicoletto “Shooting in 60 Ugly, Broke & Sober”The 2009 OUTmusic Awards the biggest night in LGBT entertainment!
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