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Palm Beach County school officials may denounce ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
PALM Beach COUNTY, Fla. — Leading Palm Beach County public faculty officials could before long formally denounce the controversial so-identified as “Don’t Say Gay” bill which is performing its way through the Florida Legislature. The Palm Beach County Faculty Board on Wednesday will vote to deliver a letter to condition legislators, voicing their “displeasure” with HB 1557 and SB 1834, the two officially identified as the “Parental Rights In Training” measure. If the payments are permitted, general public university districts in Florida would not be permitted to “inspire classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender id in key quality ranges or in a fashion that is not age-suitable or developmentally…
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Latest News in Black Art: Roxane Gay Named Board President at Performance Space, Alexis Assam Joins Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as Assistant Curator, Emma Amos Catalog Wins Gold Medal & More
Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Author and Art Collector Roxane Gay is the new board president at Performance Space New York. | Photo by Reggie Cunningham Appointments BESTSELLING AUTHOR and art collector Roxane Gay is the new president of the board at Performance Space New York. Located in the East Village, the nonprofit describes itself as “the birthplace of contemporary performance as it is known today.” Gay’s books include “Hunger,” “Difficult Women,” and “Bad Feminist.” A contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, she announced a new publishing imprint in May, Roxane Gay…
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Andy Warhol as a gay artist in conflict with his Catholic faith
(RNS) — Andy Warhol’s pop-art masterpieces — paintings of Campbell’s soup cans and Brillo boxes and saturated Marilyn Monroe screenprints — deftly thrash American consumerism and celebrity culture with a cynicism carefully disguised as tongue-in-cheek. He was careful to keep his distance as a witty, shameless auteur. The first-ever exhibition to focus on the legendary artist’s Catholic faith at the Brooklyn Museum, “Andy Warhol: Revelation,” sits in stark contrast, almost as if displaying an entirely different artist. Warhol is still plenty tongue-in-cheek: The exhibition opens with “Raphael Madonna — $6.99,” a floor-to-ceiling painting of Madonna and child overshadowed by a bright red price tag. Warhol, the former graphic artist, sketched…
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Africa: Banned Kenyan Gay Movie Launched in Africa
Following it was banned by the Kenya Movie and Classification Board (KFCB) for reportedly promoting and inciting very same-intercourse marriage, the queer-themed I am Samuel film has been released across Africa. Directed and Created by Peter Murimi and Toni Kamau respectively, the film, which was shot more than 5 several years and took two yrs to edit follows the lifestyle of a younger male tormented by his sexuality even though developing up in rural Kenya, who finds acceptance following going to the cash, Nairobi. Murimi was inspired to make this film mainly because the voices of homosexual and lesbian youth go unheard and their problems are hardly ever mentioned in…
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