Broward County’s first gay-themed library officially opened in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, just one day before the GLBT literary Festival. The library, called Stonewall Library and Archives, will host the Gay and Lesbian Literary Arts Festival on Friday and Saturday. Stonewall derived its name from the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York that paved the [...] [...more]
Broward County’s first gay-themed library officially opened in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, just one day before the GLBT literary Festival. The library, called Stonewall Library and Archives, will host the Gay and Lesbian Literary Arts Festival on Friday and Saturday. Stonewall derived its name from the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York that paved the way for the modern gay rights movement. Stonewall Library shares a building with a county library and sits on the edge of a park where children play and seniors gather. With about 20,000 books and movies, Stonewall is the largest independent gay-themed library. The library evolved from a group of college students who exchanged books to an incorporated non-profit functioning out of a small closet in a church to where it is now, a 4,200 square-foot space. Visitors must be 18 to access the materials. The library has T-shirts showing different gay rights causes and a wall depicting a timeline of the gay rights movement. This new gay-themed library is located at 1300 Sunrise Blvd.
Gay rights groups are angry crying “censorship” after RAI, Italian state television, deleted a gay sex scene in a tent and a gay kissing scene from Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain featuring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Activists argue that RAI TV would have kept the scene had it involved a heterosexual couple.
After politicians met [...] [...more]
Gay rights groups are angry crying “censorship” after RAI, Italian state television, deleted a gay sex scene in a tent and a gay kissing scene from Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain featuring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Activists argue that RAI TV would have kept the scene had it involved a heterosexual couple.
After politicians met to discuss the incident, RAI claimed the cut was accidental. Gay rights advocate and former lawmaker, Vladimir Luxuria insists it was not just a mere oversight and that it was intentional censorship.
