The 2019 Ally Awards is almost sold out. Get your tickets now!

Summer is winding down, school's almost back in session, and One Colorado’s 8th Annual Ally Awards is nearly here!

Join them to honor an incredible slate of awardees at the 2019 Ally Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in Denver.

And the Ally Awards go to…

former Colorado Attorney General, Cynthia H. Coffman
former Colorado Speaker of the House, Crisanta Duran
UCHealth Integrated Transgender Program

And the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to...

Lockheed Martin engineer and transgender activist, Christine Bland

Out On DVD/VOD: Drive Me Home

On DVD & VOD September 24, Drive Me Home follows Antonio and Agostino, who grew up together in a small town in Sicily, where they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere, anywhere, else. 

Now 30-year-olds, they both live abroad but lost touch with each other years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which has been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnect with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey that will change their lives forever...

Are You Gay With Something To Say? Bloggers Wanted For Denver's Best Gay Blog!

Are you a new or experienced writer or blogger? Do you want to be? Or maybe you're just some gay guy with something to say? Well, what better forum for you than MileHighGayGuy?

MileHighGayGuy is looking for regular and guest bloggers to write about local news and events, do music and movie reviews, or write opinion or feature pieces from a gay perspective.

These are unpaid positions but offer the opportunity to be published in Colorado's Best Gay Blog (2010, 2011, 2012 OUTstanding Awards, Denver 2012 #WebAwards), expand your audience and gain valuable experience. There's also swag available in the form of free movie and concert tickets, music, books and other cool stuff.

If interested, shoot an email over to Drew Wilson at drew@milehighgayguy.com. And if you've got column or story ideas to pitch, this is the place to do it.

Andres Cladera Talks 'Rusalka'

The stars of Rusalka come to life this Saturday, August 17th at the Strings Music Pavilion.

Click this link to hear what Andres Cladera, Artistic Director of Opera Steamboat, has to say about them!

Project Worthmore’s 7th Annual ‘Our Neighbors, Ourselves’ Art Gallery & Fundraiser

The seventh annual ‘Our Neighbors, Ourselves’ art gallery and fundraiser takes place on Friday, September 13th at the Hangar at Stanley Marketplace. The evening will feature artwork from dozens of visual artists, a silent auction, as well as live music from Tom Hagerman of DeVotchKa and his band, Grande Orquesta Navarre.

This event will be juried by Ronald Otsuka, who formerly served as the Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art with the Denver Art Museum from 1973 to 2014.

Art will be available for purchase on the night of the event, and all proceeds of the evening will go to support Project Worthmore – a nonprofit that provides direct programs and services to the local refugee community, including English classes, a five-chair dental clinic, and a refugee training farm, among others.

Le Voyage Dans La Lune in Denver

Inspired by the early silent film movement LuneAseas brings an immersive vintage performance experience to the McNichols Building Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m. This reinterpretation of George Melies’ “Le Voyage Dans La Lune”, blends live music, shadow casting, modern dance, theatre, video, and, illusionary costumestry into an immersive performance experience. Mixed with memories of first hand experiences with domestic violence Le Voyage Dans La Lune follows the fate of a little girl who is witness to the abuse of her mother. Her imagination takes her on the verge of reality on an adventure to the moon and beyond. Enjoy live music performances while fusing movement by seasoned performance artists.

Additionally, LuneAseas will be offering a donation-based movement workshop from 2:30-4 p.m. on Aug. 16 at the McNichols Civic Center Building. This workshop gives participants a first hand experience on our creative process, while learning creative problem solving, team building, trust, and creating themselves. This is open to any age and ability, with advanced registration only.

Le Voyage Dans la Lune is supported by Denver Arts & Venues Cultural Partner Program. For more information on LuneAseas visit www.luneaseas.org.

The Wonderful Music of Oz: Defy gravity and ease on down the yellow brick road!

Follow the yellow brick road to a musical journey over the rainbow with The Wonderful Music of Oz at the Lone Tree Arts Center on Saturday, October 12! 

L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, took the world by storm in 1900 and has inspired storytellers and composers on Broadway with Wicked and The Wiz, in Hollywood with The Wizard of Oz, and radio with “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.” Relive all the wonderful music of Oz based on the original tale in one magical concert event, with Scott Coulter (One Hand, One Heart: 100 Years of Bernstein) and other Broadway vocalists.

OUT on DVD/VOD: All Male, All Nude: Johnsons

Breaking Glass Pictures and OUTshine Film Festival are proud to announce the World Premiere of the alluring documentary All Male, All Nude: Johnsons, sequel to the beloved documentary All Male, All Nude from director Gerald McCullouch. All Male, All Nude: Johnsons will premiere on Sunday, September 15 at 6:30PM at the Gateway Theater. A pre-reception for VIP guests will begin at 5PM at the Modern Sixties Wine Lounge next to The Classic Gateway. An exclusive catered VIP afterparty at Johnsons, complete with open bar where guests are welcome to mingle with the chiseled centerpieces of the film, will follow the premiere. Finally, guests will be front and center to a special performance by acclaimed NYC musician Corey TuT performing songs from the film's soundtrack.

Journey into the unique world of male stripping at a small gay strip club located in America’s Second Gayest City per capita in this follow up to the popular 2017 feature documentary All Male, All Nude.

All Male, All Nude: Johnsons is set in Florida’s newest gay strip club, Johnsons, located in Wilton Manors, Florida and new home to the creator and owner of Johnsons - Matt Colunga, an award-winning body builder, who has been in the male entertainment industry for 23 years and was introduced in the first film.

From 42-year-old Matt, to 26-year-old Alexander, who spends his days dressed as Spider-Man creating early memories for children at kid parties and spends his nights stripping down to his G-String for gay men, to single fathers and young men putting themselves through college with their stripping income, to entertainers in the adult film world - the men who compose the heart of Johnsons are diverse, unique and captivating.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Gerald McCullouch (Daddy, the BearCity franchise, CSI). McCullouch has spent over 10 years uncovering the world of male stripping with this second Cinéma Vérité feature length documentary. Best known for his 10 seasons as “Bobby Dawson” on CSI and his critically acclaimed performances as “Roger” in the Bear City franchise McCullouch recently guest starred on FBI, Tyler Perry’s The Haves And The Have Nots and will appear in an upcoming Netflix series.

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Are You Gay With Something To Say? Bloggers Wanted For Denver's Best Gay Blog!

Are you a new or experienced writer or blogger? Do you want to be? Or maybe you're just some gay guy with something to say? Well, what better forum for you than MileHighGayGuy?

MileHighGayGuy is looking for regular and guest bloggers to write about local news and events, do music and movie reviews, or write opinion or feature pieces from a gay perspective.

These are unpaid positions but offer the opportunity to be published in Colorado's Best Gay Blog (2010, 2011, 2012 OUTstanding Awards, Denver 2012 #WebAwards), expand your audience and gain valuable experience. There's also swag available in the form of free movie and concert tickets, music, books and other cool stuff.

If interested, shoot an email over to Drew Wilson at drew@milehighgayguy.com. And if you've got column or story ideas to pitch, this is the place to do it.

OUT on TV: Styling Hollywood

Styling Hollywood is a series following celebrity stylist Jason Bolden and his interior designer husband Adair Curtis as they run their lifestyle company JSN STUDIO while balancing marriage and life’s ups and downs. With their talented crew of colorful employees, watch as they curate "Black Girl Magic" for some of Hollywood’s biggest stars including Taraji P. Henson, Gabrielle Union, Eve, and Ava DuVernay (just to name a few).

Styling Hollywood is produced by Kingdom Reign Entertainment and ITV America.  Carlos King, David George and Jordana Hochman serve as executive producers with Angela Rae Berg serving as executive producer and showrunner.

Styling Hollywood: Season 1 launches globally on Netflix August 30, 2019.

Books: Here Is What You Do

A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that is both loving and savage. A teen raised by his out-and-proud father, a Turkish immigrant, is displaced after violence fractures his life, forever altering his sense of time and memory. A wistful mother escapes her reality and regret by losing herself in the miniature worlds she finds at the edge of the woods.

Perfect for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Garth Greenwell, and A.M. Homes, Here Is What You Do is a powerful, timely short story collection by a vital new voice in queer fiction. Dennis’s debut is a bravura work of muscularly robust prose that captures the primal need, desire, cruelty, and promise of people trying to connect with, and consume, each other. The stories’ complex themes—trauma, addiction, the prison system, queer identity, isolation and crushing loneliness, validation, and everything in between—are tackled with an unfailing eye for human drives and frailties.

Dennis’s characters have immense psychological depth and each story drills toward their darkest emotional centers, resulting in moving prose that embraces vulnerability and grit. “In Motel Rooms” sees a fictionalized Coretta Scott King stalked and harassed by the FBI and considering the costs of her life with her husband, who is lifted up as a hero by the public, but still painfully human behind closed doors. In “Nettles,” a married couple moves out of the city and buys a rural slaughterhouse. But the strange, unnameable tension with their religious neighbors quickly escalates, and the couple struggles to retain their shaky facade of domesticity.

By turns heartrending and hopeful, Here Is What You Do refuses to shy away from the harsh realities of the flaws and saving graces that make us human.

HRC and Coalition Partners Submit Over 130,000 Public Comments on Trump’s Proposed Attack on Transgender Health Care

 

Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, announced that it--along with a dozen coalition partners--submitted over 130,000 public comments against the Trump-Pence administration’s proposed regulation to strip out protections for transgender patients and other marginalized communities in the Affordable Car Act, commonly known as Section 1557.

“Everyone deserves access to care, and no one should be turned away because of who they are or whom they love,” said HRC President Alphonso David. “The Trump-Pence administration’s proposal undermines crucial non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people provided by the Affordable Care Act and puts LGBTQ people at greater risk of being denied health care solely based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. We oppose this proposal in the strongest terms.”

Fear of discrimination causes many LGBTQ people to avoid seeking healthcare, and when they do enter care, studies indicate that LGBTQ people are not consistently treated with the respect that all patients deserve. Studies show that 56% of LGB people and 70% of transgender and gender non-conforming people reported experiencing discrimination by healthcare providers -- including refusal of care, harsh language and physical roughness because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. According to a report, 23% of transgender respondents did not see a doctor when they needed to because of fear of being mistreated as a transgender person and a startling 55% of transgender respondents who sought coverage for transition-related surgery were denied. Delay and avoidance of care due to fear of discrimination compounds the significant health disparities experienced by LGBTQ people.

HRC joined a broad coalition of organizations, including the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Transgender Law Center, and the Center for American Progress in a campaign to collect comments from members of the public rejecting the proposed regulation. Through a robust digital and organizing strategy, HRC significantly contributed to the final coalition total with 23,850 comments.

Last month, HRC released a video urging the public to submit comments and partnered with former Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta and Dr. Jennifer Gunter on national op-eds. HRC also organized a briefing by the NYU Policy Institute for key congressional staff regarding the administrative procedural flaws around the 1557 regulations.

Heating Up in The Mile High: Denver’s Summer Finale

The Mile High City can never get enough summer, so as the season comes to a close, Denver maxes out the fun with not just one long weekend, but more than a month of celebrations as its unofficial summer finale. Visitors can soak up every last ray of summer sun at culinary and cultural festivals, professional sports games and events, headliner concerts, live performing arts, blockbuster museum exhibitions and many more activities through Labor Day and beyond.

After the jump are several events taking place during Denver’s summer finale; for a full list, including exhibitions and hotel deals, go to the VISIT DENVER website.

Colorado Arts Organization Awards Collegiate Students for Conceptual Public Art Designs!

MOA has announced the award winners of their first national collegiate design competition. The competition is part of MOA's award winning Design and Build program.

Student teams from Temple University, University of Colorado Denver, University of North Alabama and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign took home the top prizes for their pop-up makerspace designs.

Stay tuned for details about the next competition challenge that will launch in the fall and will be open for individuals as well as for university faculty to take on as a class project.