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Tag: music
Nov 04 2007
Pony Party: Sunday music retrospective
Nov 04 2007
Pony Party: Sunday music retrospective
Nov 04 2007
Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists
Just got back, wow! 10 amazing guitarists from around the globe and Fripp heading the band. There was an atmosphere of ritual and discipline as the 10 took to the stage. All dressed in black, all carrying Ovation guitars, Fripp appeared to have a Gibson SG but I could be mistaken. Fripp had his stack of devices placed between him and the audience. He sat at his stool and worked the effects peddles and often would reach up mid-riff to tweak a setting or two.
Before the show began he had all of the guitarists read a message from him to the audience in their own tongue, the message was about respecting the performance and not taking pictures or making recordings. Then they all walked up to the mic and read their individual statements at the same time and it sounded like an over-packed stadium, which I believe was the point. Well someone must not of understood and tried to take a photo. Mr. Fripp stopped the performance, went up and talked to the man and had his camera taken away, then he signaled to the others that they should walk off stage and they did.
Oct 28 2007
Pony Party: Sunday music retrospective
Oct 28 2007
Pony Party: Sunday music retrospective
Oct 21 2007
Pony Party: Sunday music retrospective
Oct 17 2007
in Other news…
Welcome to a weekly roundup of news related to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and otherwise “Other” community.
- Starting with the good news… 2007 is a record year for the number of openly queer candidates running for political office in a year with no federal elections: a whopping 71, if you can believe that. This includes people like Pam Bennett, a transgender politician running for city council in Colorado. Only six states still have no openly gay or lesbian elected officials at any level… including my home state. Hoorah!
- Now for more sobering news… In the course of the last 20 years, HIV/AIDS has gone from a mysterious “gay cancer” to an international crisis to a celebrity cause to background noise. Most of what we hear in the news today involves skyrocketing rates in Africa and the debate over condoms, which is why the 2005 report by the Center for Disease Control is all the more sobering: among MSM (that’s “men who have sex with men”) in urban areas, 21% of whites and 46% of blacks have HIV. If you live near D.C. and are interested, the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory will be holding an open meeting on October 24th, focusing specifically on the spread of HIV in minority communities. More info here.
- And some heartwarming news… counter to the largely negative story about living out in nursing homes that I posted last week, consider this: a 93 year old British man who recently came out in The Old Vicarage Nursing home has written a novel about forbidden love, The Heart Entrapped (h/t Towleroad). Says author Mike Soper:
“When all the old ladies heard about the book, they asked if they could read it. So I had to tell them I was gay and that it was a gay-themed novel.”
Mr Soper, a former academic at Christ Church, Oxford, until 1981, said it had been nice to be honest about his sexuality after so many years.