In the 1980s, Chris Nagle moved with his family to the Cape where his father’s involvement in art instruction, painting, sculpting, and carpentry provided a path toward immersion in design. Chris’ pursuit of architecture ultimately led to his teaming up with Adam Slone in 2019 to launch Provincetown’s Outermost — a collection of art and modern furnishings that might make John … [Read more...] about Blue Is the Warmest Color for Chris Nagle’s Outermost Provincetown Designs
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Matt Skallerud Is Embracing His Inner Marketing Pink Banana Magic
Matt Skallerud is the President of Pink Banana Media. He has been in the LGBTQ online marketing world for almost 25 years, having started GayWired.com in 1995. He now helps companies navigate online campaigns and social media amongst other marketing channels. He will also help you navigate your hypothetical scenarios in a digital world. Let’s see what advice we can rattle from … [Read more...] about Matt Skallerud Is Embracing His Inner Marketing Pink Banana Magic
Book Review: The Stonewall Reader
The Stonewall Reader Edited by the New York Public Library 336 pp. Penguin Classics There are already a great many books on the subject of the Stonewall uprising. Perhaps the best-known and most widely-read are those by Martin Duberman and David Carter, but many others have been published in recent years. With 2019 marking the 50th anniversary of the events, it was … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Stonewall Reader
Party Down July 2, 2019
I always know my week is going to start off well when I get the opportunity to attend the NOAGE Walking group on Monday. Once a week, the New Orleans Advocates for LGBT Elders walks the track at Audubon Park starting at 6:45 p.m. It’s not so hot in the evening and the park is just gorgeous. Something about exercising in a beautiful environment that just … [Read more...] about Party Down July 2, 2019
Movie Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home
Are your spidey senses tingling or, better yet, your Peter Tingle? They will be soon with the release of the newest entry to the Marvel Universe, Spider-Man: Far From Home. Directed by Jon Watts and written by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers, this latest entry is the sequel to 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming and the twenty-third film in the Marvel Cinematic … [Read more...] about Movie Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home
Book Review: Brown White Black
The Drama of Celebrity. Sharon Marcus. Princeton University Press, 2019. 328 pages. The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus, the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is a must read for anyone interested in an intellectual understanding of how celebrity works. Why do so many people care so much about … [Read more...] about Book Review: Brown White Black
Police Can Be So Adamant
Now that Pride month is over and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising has come and gone, the marking of this milestone year will now be written into the history books. The most significant—perhaps “remarkable” is the better word—legacy of this year’s celebration is the official apology issued by the NYPD. Commenting on the raid that helped spark the modern … [Read more...] about Police Can Be So Adamant
The Historic New Orleans Collection
The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to preserving the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Founded in 1966, THNOC has grown to include 11 historic buildings making up three French Quarter campuses. The Royal Street campus, located at 533 Royal Street, serves as the museum headquarters, housing a … [Read more...] about The Historic New Orleans Collection
Trodding the Boards July 2, 2019
1776 at Playmakers Theater thru July 7 When 1776 opened on Broadway in 1969, it was a turbulent time. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy had been assassinated less than a year earlier. The Vietnam War was raging. Nixon had just been inaugurated that January. A musical dramedy about the signing of the Declaration of Independence did … [Read more...] about Trodding the Boards July 2, 2019
Acting Up in New Orleans
As the 50th anniversary of Stonewall approaches, my mind is not so much on the gay liberation movement of the 1970s, but rather on the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. How did the disease affect the movement? How might LGBT+ history have unfolded if there had been no epidemic? And what was happening in New Orleans at the time? In some ways, AIDS had the … [Read more...] about Acting Up in New Orleans
