Theblower gay
Words and images by Noémie Blue
Below a cocktail lock on London’s busy Denmark Street, a stage has been decorated with domestic cotton ball clouds and tinfoil stars. It feels like an end-of-term celebration, a garden party, or like we’ve all piled inside our cool older sister’s bedroom to argue our latest school obsession. In this intimate setting, we are welcomed into Déyyess’ world.
Originally from Canterbury, Kent, the young singer-songwriter grew an audience after posting reels captioned with viral stories of her unrequited crushes to snippets of her songs, inspired by My Bloody Valentine and Lady Gaga. The viral videos amassed millions of views on Instagram. Undoubtedly, this is how most of her fans tonight have found her, their algorithm leading them to this queer miss side of the Internet.
She has just dropped her debut EP, ‘Claire’ and is impatient to finally connect with her online audience in the flesh at her first (sold-out!) headline show. “I can’t believe you’re all here,” she says. “I sense like you’ve all existed online for so lengthy, and now you’re all here. I’m so gleeful I found you, and you found me, and we all get to be in a room together.”
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Performance: Gay Passion Letters + Painter Talk
Exhibitions
Old Masonic Hall
In collaboration with Close Friends Collective
Left: Janie Stamm, Orange Blossom Baby (detail)
Wednesday, Feb 14, 2024 (5:30pm)
Celebrate this Valentine’s Day by enjoying a night of poetry and history, surrounded by Breck Create’s newest exhibition, In Plain Sight: Queer Rural Narratives from the Moisture and the Land. The event begins with informal painter talks from putting on artists Ben Cuevas and Janie Stamm. What follows is a time capsule of gay adore, with letters and poems by Gender non-conforming authors of the eleventh through twenty-first centuries read by the artists and Summit County collective members. Many of the love letters have a rural background, in keeping with the theme of In Plain Sight, and a small selection will be read by the authors. Kindle your romantic essence by listening to literary art that ranges from emotional, to profound, to even a petty bit racy.
Special thanks to Mountain Pride and Breckenridge Backstage Theatre for support with outreach and casting.
Close Friends Collective is a queer public
Jack Heaphy
Being Gay at Dartmouth
Hello all- hope everyone's doing well. Things here are great, the weather is (very, very slowly) getting warmer, classes are interesting, and I've started to find a steady routine for this legal title. With some extra time to reflect, I thought I'd speak about a core aspect of my Dartmouth experience, a specific component I was very worried about during my college conclusion process.
I identify as gay, and when I was looking at different colleges, I remember feeling deep concern about the Homosexual communities that existed at each school. I was never personally interested in joining many queer or queer organizations or clubs, but I wanted to produce sure that I could still exist and be my straightforward self without feeling judged or suffocated.
Here at Dartmouth, I would definitely say the gay presence is whatever you make it. Obviously our small student body means that there are fewer LGBTQ individuals in the area, but there are fewer people in general. Proportional to the student body, I was actually surprised by the amount of students at Dartmouth that identified as queer. In terms of campus involvement, there are plenty of opportunities to embrace and flaunt
Gay Rights, Equal Protection, and the Classification-Framing Quandary
Abstract
Commentators and bring down courts will speculate for some day on the actual holding and potential sweep of the Supreme Court's ruling in Windsor v. United States [699 F.3d 169, 175 (2d Cir. 2012), aff'd, 133 S. Ct. 2675 (2013)], as well as how the Court might have resolved Perry v. Brown [671 F.3d 1052, 1063 (9th Cir. 2012), vacated and remanded sub nom. Hollingsworth v. Perry, 133 S. Ct. 2652 (2013)] on the merits.
Of at least equal and perhaps greater importance, however, is a subtle yet critical unresolved threshold doubt lurking in the background of these two decisions, as well as in numerous other cases percolating in the lower courts regarding claims by queer and lesbian plaintiffs. This unresolved ask is vital to mounting a flourishing equal protection challenge: is there any "discrimination" as same protection precedents characterize that concept, and if so, what is the essence of the classification?
In this Article, I attempt to resolve the classification-framing quandary created by identical protection claims brought by gays and lesbians against laws falling into these latter two categor