Charity criticized for handing out condoms
A Yorkshire org has come under fire for nailing bags of condoms to trees in a popular cruising area.
Tags: Charity, Condoms, Cruising Area, Trees, YorkshireArtist Tim Miller gets the gay ‘Lay of the Land’
Performance artist and gay activist Tim Miller likes to think of himself as a “flag monitor” who uses his art to keep tabs on acts of bigotry and discrimination perpetrated in the name of the country to which he pledges allegiance.
Miller comes to Tallahassee this weekend to deliver a State of the Union address — make that a State of the Queer American Union address — in the form of his solo piece, “Lay of the Land,” at the Mickee Faust Clubhouse in Railroad Square Art Park.
He arrives days after New Hampshire became the sixth state to sanction same-sex unions. It ought to add an extra fillip of irony to his performances of “Lay of the Land,” which references Florida’s Amendment 2 and Proposition 8 (from Miller’s home state of California), which aim to prohibit gay marriage.
It’ll be his first visit to Tallahassee, but Miller has done his homework.
“Florida and California have such a weird and complicated link in the national imagination,” Miller said in a phone interview. “There’s the image of the sun and orange trees and the veneer that both states have of free thinking and loving nature — and exporting homophobia.” See Artist gets the gay ‘Lay of the Land’
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Vandal Who Allegedly Desecrated Gay Icons’ Trees Arrested, Charged
Sheriff’s detectives found the man they say desecrated a pair of tribute trees honoring pioneers of the gay rights movement in the center of West Hollywood this week, say officials S
The incident occurred Thursday night, March 26, with a second on Saturday night, the result of which left the trees, one a flowering Chinese Magnolia and the other a California Live Oak, suffering from considerable damage.
A transient named Bruce Bartmann, age 47, who is known to make WeHo his tramping grounds, was captured by a Sheriff deputy who spotted him in the Beverly Hills Court hallway on Wednesday; recognizing him from a photo that had been making the rounds, he arrested him on the spot.
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