Weekend plans: hangin’ out with that crazy Kiefer ‘n’gettin’ into all kinds of unspeakable trouble.
RENWL is taking the weekend off but will be back Monday. Have a great weekend and we look forward to seeing you here next week!
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Award-winning senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com LZ Granderson, will be joining SistersTalk Radio host Genia Stevens on Friday May 14th, (7pm central/5pm pacific) to talk about his latest CNN essay Closeted Gays Are The Enemy Within. Granderson’s explosive CNN essay Gay Is Not The New Black, made headlines last July for taking The Advocate magazine and white gay leadership to task in their endorsing the phrase, “gay is the new black” as slogan for the LGBT equality movement.
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Going to San Francisco’s Pride fest this summer? Fabulous. Just whatever you do don’t stay at the St. Francis Hotel. The iconic lodging spot is being boycotted by Sleep With The Right People—-a coalition LGBT orgs, LGBT community members and UNITE HERE, a union representing over 300,000 hospitality and manufacturing workers across North America.
UNITE HERE and Sleep With The Right People began a boycott of seven hotels, including the Westin St. Francis, the Grand Hyatt, and the Hilton, just before August 2009 when the union began renegotiations for expiring contracts between 61 hotels and 9,000 Local 2 members, according to the KTVU.com Website.
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Photo courtesy of New Organizing Institute
Here’s the 411 straight from the press release:
60 champions of equality
This summer, the New Organizing Institute is teaming up with the Gill Foundation to put a spin on its signature BootCamp training series to bring LGBT equality activists from around the country to Washington DC for an intensive, six-day new media training.
NOI’s BootCamps are well known for their innovative style, integrating cutting-edge online organizing techniques, political technology, and field leadership. LGBT BootCamp is no different, and will have a focus on building new media skills to help these organizers move LGBT issues forward and achieve unprecedented progressive change.
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Miss that C.D. Kirven (Get Equal) interview with Genia Stevens on the absence of LGBT leadership of color? How about that lovable Luan Legacy’s chat with SistersTalk last week? Not a prob. Now you can come to RENWL and listen to any of the SistersTalk podcasts right in our sidebar whenever you want. That’s right. We’re such big fans of SistersTalk that we’ve permanently installed a SistersTalk player into our sidebar.
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La Mission star Benjamin Bratt showing off them tits ‘n’ tats
We gotta kick it off with an East LA back in da day classic by WAR. Press play!
Director Peter Bratt teamed up with his brother actor Benjamin Bratt to make a film about this hot thugged-out hoopsta lovin’ San Francisco bus driver and single parent, Che Rivera (Benjamin Bratt) raising his son, Jesse (Jeremy Ray Valdez), a successful high school senior who has been keeping his gay identity and white boyfriend, Jordan (Max Rosenak), secret from his father.
The film follows Che as he struggles to accept his son. But that’s just one layer of this film, which explores machismo, cultural identity, misogyny, and the evolution of America.
To their credit The Advocate interviewed La Mission’s star and director the brothers Peter and Benjamin Bratt in early 2009, when it debuted at Sundance Film Festival. The film has won awards and has been in several other film fests including LA’s own OutFest last year. Most recently Towleroad and Ontop Magazine each dropped some ink about the film which was released for public screenings in select theaters earlier this month.
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