Monday, August 7, 2017
Cathedrals - Try To Fight
Today Cathedrals reveal the video for their single "Try To Fight."
The video was choreographed by Denna Thomsen (who worked on Sia's "Elastic Heart") and stars dancer/model/actress Kylie Shea and Nick Baga (La La Land, Grease! Live, Dancing With the Stars). A throwback to the days of Flash Dance and Dirty Dancing, "Try To Fight" was directed by Brodie's longtime childhood friend Jesse Fleece whose credits include Paul McCartney, Lana del Rey and Arcade Fire. Consequence of Sound said the single, "is (a) thumping, glittering dance pop track bursting with rich synthesizers and Jenkins' powerfully sweet vocals.
Friday, August 4, 2017
33rd Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair Starts Tomorrow
Mark Your Calendars and Bring Your Appetites to the 9th Annual Cherry Creek North Food & Wine
Cherry Creek North Food & Wine celebrates the diverse and sophisticated tastes of Cherry Creek North dining, bringing together the area's best restaurants for one night on Fillmore Plaza. Attendees will have the chance to sample bites while enjoying locally-provided wine, beer and spirits; plus, live music and more!
Volunteers wanted at the 1st Annual Aurora Pride!
If you would like to help out you can contact Jerry Cunningham at Jerry@outfrontonline.com.
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
Happy National Watermelon Day!
Real watermelonheads will take it to the next level by serving it in a watermelon punch bowl.
Stonewall Fitness: What's With the Name?
If you’ve followed me on Facebook and Instagram over the past year, you might have found yourself confused with me… is it David or Dirk? What should you call me? Who the hell am I?
No doubt even something as simple as a name change on social media can have a tremendous impact on one’s identity toward their network of friends. Many people have asked me why I changed my name, when will I change it back and most of all… Do I go by David or Dirk?
The simple answer, at least to the last question… while many people might know me as David, I really like the name Dirk (and the German pronounciation of it “DEER-CK” like Deer (the animal) and a CK). David Smith is a very… VERY common name in the United States. Too common in fact and while that’s not necessarily a bad thing, I feel it’s time for something new.
When I initially changed the name, I wanted people to call me Dirk. However being as established as I am here in Denver, it is not exactly an easy transition and I started to forget to whom and how I introduced myself to people, thus I got more confused myself than others have. So, I have told people that while I prefer Dirk, I respond to both.
It is difficult to adopt such a significant shift in identity. With everything from official IDs, Business Cards, Addresses, Credit Cards, and just even my own space cadet kind of memory, it is definitely a kind of transition that can throw a lot of people off.
The change represents the precursor to a major impending life change for me. To end one chapter and begin anew. While I am not entirely sure what that will fully entail, it does include leaving Denver and starting somewhere new and with a clean slate but when and where? Who knows! All I know it is including a new name, Dirk.
With that I am excited at the new opportunities and possibilities that lie ahead. My passion and cause has never been stronger as I continue to grow and expand Stonewall Fitness and Fit with PRIDE to encompass new ideas and approaches toward helping unite the LGBTQ+ community through exercise, fitness and sport. By growing opportunities to write and share my insight into exercise and fitness as well as building my online training and coaching programs. No matter where in the world I might go, I will always have a community that I feel apart of and can continue to help bring together in our common pursuit of better health, fitness and wellness.
Rhein Haus: Serving Up Weiners Und Balls in Downtown Denver
Travel: Diverse Contingent of Grand Marshals Set to Lead Canada Pride Montreal 2017
The Grand Marshals will take part in the parade on Sunday August 20, which promises to be the largest of its kind in Canada, bringing together for the first time Canada’s 96 Pride organizations. It will be led by a contingent of Indigenous Peoples in recognition of Canada’s founding peoples, the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis.
Andrew Gray, First Male Author to Receive RWA Centennial Award for publishing 100 M/M novels
In The Photographer’s Assistant, Christian Coulliet is the premier gay erotic photographer in the country. His pictures are spectacular because he will go to whatever length is necessary to get the photographs he wants, including having sex with his models. His assistant, David Weatherby is attracted to Christian in a big way but has seen Christian brush off so many men, and he doesn’t want to be another notch on Christian’s photographic bedpost. What David doesn’t realize is that Christian has noticed and watches, but stays away because David works for him, and because he feels that David deserves someone better.
“Andrew Grey is a unique talent in the M/M romance world and we are honored to be re-publishing this sexy novella as he receives his much-deserved Romance Writers of America Centennial Award for being the only male author, and the only author of M/M romance, to publish 100 romance titles,” said Publisher Lori Perkins.
“I had a ball writing this story. It’s a secret fantasy of mine to have been able to be a model and I definitely would have taken a handsome photographer for a spin if I had gotten the chance, ” said Grey.
Transgender Navy SEAL Kristin Beck: ‘Transgender People Are Some of the Most Patriotic’
“We value our liberties because we know what it means not to have them,” says Kristin Beck, 51, now a farmer living in Maryland. Beck spoke to PEOPLE shortly after learning that President Donald Trump had tweeted a new policy banning transgender persons from serving in the military.
Beck enlisted in the Navy as Christopher and eventually joined the SEALs, serving with the revered counter-terror Naval Special Warfare Group (DEVGRU), otherwise known as SEAL Team 6. She served as part of seven combat deployments and received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart (for being wounded in action).
During Beck’s time in the Navy, she never told fellow soldiers about identifying as a woman. She didn’t share that she had gravitated toward girls’ clothing and toys since childhood.
Only after leaving the Navy in 2011 did Beck start wearing women’s clothes and stop using the name Christopher. She became Kristin, and soon started taking hormone therapy to transition to female.
Beck says she initially viewed Trump’s tweets as a chain-of-command issue.
“I’m not sure he totally understands how the president interacts with the Defense Department,” Beck says. “There’s a whole process they go through, and this isn’t it. What he did in one series of tweets is, he gave directives, but no timelines, no execution.”
If the tweets mean that transgender people must leave the military, that creates a problem for the country, Beck says.
“You’re dismissing people who are on active duty, who have a lot of experience and are valuable,” Beck tells PEOPLE. “You’re talking about linguists, senior level officers, people with a lot of expertise.”
Military personnel departments would have to scramble, Beck indicates.
“Are you going to pull them out of units all at once? This creates problems for the units,” Beck says. “There’s no timeline.”
The tweets also raise the question of personal liberties, Beck says.
“When I go into the Pentagon, I ask generals, ‘Who is the Statue of Liberty holding that torch for?’ “
“Is it just for the president?” Beck asks. “Congress? No, it’s for everyone, even people in prison. And as a transgender person, I have the same liberties as everyone else in the country.”
And long before Trump’s latest social media campaign, Beck says the Pentagon and its branches have been studying the inclusion of transgender service members.
For now, the official policy allowing transgender people to serve remains unchanged.
“This was a couple of words in a tweet,” Beck says. “There is no guidance, no timelines — boom.”
Adds the patriotic former SEAL: “The President created way more questions than answers.”
Lambda Literary Awarded $30,000 Grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership
Lambda
Literary's Writers Retreat is the only residency in the world
established specifically for talented, emerging LGBTQ writers. Since
2007 when the program began, Lambda has graduated over 400 Fellows from
its summer Retreat. For one rigorous, immersive week, Retreat students
in fiction, genre fiction, nonfiction, poetry and playwriting work on
their manuscripts or plays in small, individualized classes, gain
mentorships, forge critical connections to publishing industry
professionals, and build a community of peers on whom they'll depend for
years of encouragement, inspiration and friendship.
"Amazon
Literary Partnership's generous grants have helped to support a
generation of emerging LGBTQ writers," said Tony Valenzuela, Lambda
Literary's Executive Director. "Amazon's funding has played a direct
role in helping Lambda Fellows publish some of the most exciting debut
novels of the past decade."
"Amazon
is thrilled to continue its support for Lambda's one-of-a-kind retreat,
which offers talented LGBTQ writers a rare opportunity to receive
rigorous mentoring from some of the finest writers working today," said
Neal Thompson, Amazon's director of Author and Publishing Relations.
"It's vital these days to make sure literary LGBTQ voices get heard. And
the Lambda retreat does more than help emerging writers tell their
stories, it develops writers' careers."
Amazon.com's
$30,000 grant is a significant contribution to the mission of Lambda
Literary. As in years past, the grant will enable promising emerging
writers to participate through scholarship funds. Without a scholarship,
many students would not otherwise be able to attend the Retreat in Los
Angeles. Amazon.com's support ensures that these talented writers can
take their spot in a workshop.
The
Writers Retreat provides an unparalleled opportunity to learn from the
very best writers in the LGBTQ community. This year's main faculty after the break:
Are You Gay With Something To Say? Bloggers Wanted For Denver's Best Gay Blog!
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Debt Free Guys: 4 Keys to Winning the Mid-life Career Change
How do you prepare for a mid-life career change? Here's a few suggestions. Check out the full episode for much, much more!
OUT on DVD/VOD: House of Z
HOUSE OF Z chronicles the meteoric rise of fashion designer Zac Posen at the age of 21 and then his brand's falling out of favor several years later and his challenge to rebuild his company and his reputation. It is both a portrait of an artist as a young man, and a look behind the glamorous curtain of one of the most distinguished brands in the world, revealing the tenuous dance between art and commerce that informs every move.
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