(Gay USA) Progress and Regress!

IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK WITH ANN AND ANDY (taped 3/18/15):

• Progress to report in Iowa, Alabama, Arizona, Puerto Rico, Michigan, Washington, DC, and East Grand Rapids, MI.
• Regress to report in Alabama, Florida, and Indiana.
• Reform Jews elect their first out gay or lesbian leader.
• The Presbyterian Church opens marriage to same-sex couples as rightwing fundamentalist Christians mobilize to take over the country.
• Former gay couple Dolce and Gabbana inspire calls for a boycott of their products over their condemnation of gay families and children born through IVF.
• LGBT groups march in St. Patrick’s Day parades in Boston, Washington, DC, and New York for the first time, but New York still bans Irish gay groups from an Irish parade.
• Andy reviews Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in THE AUDIENCE and Kristen Chenoweth in the revival of ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

(BUSINESS) 8th Annual LGBT Community Survey® Reports on the Attitudes and Consumer Behavior!

San Francisco, CA-Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) has released its 2014 LGBT Community Survey report. 

34,415 respondents from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in 123 countries participated in the 8th annual survey. 170+ LGBT media, events and organizations worldwide partnered with CMI in this year’s study, helping to gain wide representation from across the community.

The media consumption, purchasing patterns, and motivations of a 25 year old single gay man living in New York City are completely different than those of a lesbian couple in their 60’s living in Sedona, Arizona. By attracting large numbers of respondents, CMI is able to look at the many segments within LGBT. Study insights provide companies and organizations with an understanding of how the LGBT community sometimes responds as one voice, or when demographic differences such as gender, age, and geographic residence are far more important.

(TONYS 2014) A Gentleman's Guide, Hedwig Top List of 2014 Tony Award Nominees!

 

Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu announced the nominations for the 68th annual Tony Awards at the Paramount Hotel’s Diamond Horseshoe April 29, with Tony host Hugh Jackman also popping up to remind theater fans to watch the telecast live on CBS on June 8. The new musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder led the pack with ten nominations, with the revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch trailing closely behind with eight nominations. The new musicals After Midnight and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical each received seven nominations, as did the revivals of The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night. As for new plays this season, Act One garnered the most nominations, with five. A complete list of this year’s nominees follows.

(GIVEAWAY) Deadline to Enter is Friday!

 

It is confirmed that MK Scott and OUTview are returning to Hollywood from February 23rd to March 3rd to cover all the Pre-OSCAR festivities, and in order to achieve this, we are seeking Donations to raffle off some DVDs to make our Goal of covering the costs totaling $1,000.

The min. Ticket is $5 and all Tickets must be sold by Fri, February 21st. Many Thanks and Good Luck!

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(GLAAD 2014) And the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees are...!

Today GLAAD announced the nominees for the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, recognizing powerful and important media stories from 2013 - an historic year for LGBT equality. The GLAAD Media Awards honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.  The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD's work to amplify stories from the LGBT community and issues that build support for equality.

Nominated in the Outstanding Film - Wide Release category are the Oscar-nominated Philomena, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Dallas Buyers Club, Kill Your Darlings, and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (with the relationship between gay characters Alec and Magnus which will continue in the sequel).

Outstanding Film - Limited Release nominees include Concussion, Geography Club, Out in the Dark, Reaching for the Moon, and Yossi, a sequel to the GLAAD Media Award-winning film Yossi & Jagger (2003).

(Breaking News) CHER ANNOUNCES ‘DRESSED TO KILL’ TOUR BEGINNING MARCH 22nd!

PRESS RELEASE:

It’s now official. The one and only Cher herself revealed that she will kick off her “Dressed To Kill” 49 city North American Tour beginning in Phoenix on March 22nd with stops in NY, LA, Boston, Las Vegas, and other major markets. Cher shared the happy news with her fans following her performance on the Today Show this morning.

A full list of “Dressed to Kill” tour dates and cities follows this release. The national tour promoter is Marshall Arts USA. For ticket information and to sign up for tour updates please go to Cher.com .

Cher’s previous tour “The Farewell Tour” later dubbed “The Never Can Say Goodbye Tour” was one of the most successful tours ever by a solo artist and played for a record-breaking 325 dates and seen by over 5.5 million people.

American Express® Cardmembers can purchase their tickets to select cities before the general public beginning Monday September 30th, 10am through Thursday, October 3rd, 10pm.

For all online tickets purchased (presale and general public), ticketholders will receive a free copy of Cher’s new album “Closer To The Truth”, out September 24th on Warner Bros Records.

Cher is in New York this week celebrating the album’s release with upcoming appearances on David Letterman (Sept. 24th) and Live! with Kelly & Michael (October 1st). Cher will also be appearing as a mentor with Blake Shelton on NBC’s The Voice airing in October.