EYE OF A NEEDLE

Jesse McCloud on the potential of thread art, the emotional attachment to their work and the pandemic’s effect on creativity   BY MARK ARIEL  |  PHOTO BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM California born and raised non-binary artist Jesse McCloud, 28, explored various Read more

JUST RIDE

Shot in Echo Park, Bobby Newberry’s Ride is about taking chances and chasing after life’s wildest dreams Bobby Newberry’s new single and music video Ride was released last month. Newberry, best known for choreographing music videos for Eminem, Nicki Minaj Read more

KIDS LIKE ME

A vibrant new children’s book by nonbinary author Ris iRAWniQ Anderson For most people, gender rebel icon Grace Jones is not the first person to come to mind when one thinks of a children’s book. Then again, most people aren’t Read more

OUTFEST LOS ANGELES

The 10-day festival celebrates 39 years of LGBTQ+ film and television this month with a return to in-person screenings BY ORLY LYONNE Celebrating its 39th anniversary, Outfest LA has announced its complete programming lineup for the 2021 Outfest Los Angeles Read more

PAPERBACK WRITER

The first bestselling paperback original in the US was a work of lesbian pulp fiction One of the very first paperback originals in the US published in 1950 was Tereska Torres’ “Women’s Barracks,” a fictional account of life among female Read more

THE WALK SHOW

APLA Health launches AIDS Walk Los Angeles 2021 hosted by Ongina of RuPaul’s Drag Race APLA Health has partnered with Ongina to host their new weekly online video talk show, The Walk Show.  Every week Ongina will “walk” participants through Read more

UPCOMING PRIDES

Pride events taking place this month include DTLA Proud and Ventura County’s Pride Festival The DTLA Proud Festival will take place in Pershing Square this month on August 27–29. The festival celebrates the culture, history, and diversity of the growing Read more

The Art

MEL ODOM Mel Odom’s art first attained prominence in the mid-1970s with a series of exotic illustrations done for glossy magazines. These pencil and watercolor drawings soon attracted assignments from art directors of other magazines, leading to a seventeen year, Read more

The City

LOS ANGELES LAPD SUED OVER BEHAVIOR AT TRANS RIGHTS PROTESTS A group of transgender rights activists filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department last month for its handling of recent protests outside Wi Spa in Koreatown, reports CBSLA. Read more

The Event

ORI PAUL LEVI Homoerotic artist opens exhibit in DTLA. Exploring sexuality, self-expression, queerness and underground cultures. The work of Ori Paul Levi, a visual artist dealing in homoerotic collage work and photography, is currently on display at PSKAUFMAN gallery in Read more

The Rostow Report by Ann Rostow

“The granddaughter of [anti-gay rights activist] Anita Bryant, Sarah Green, is a lesbian who plans to marry her girlfriend shortly… Green says her grandmother was not pleased…” TEE UP ANOTHER FOR THE SUPREME COURT As July came to a close, Read more

The Share

NEWLY SOBER  We asked these clean and sober individuals what their life is like now as newcomers in recovery. BY PAULO MURILLO NEW FRIENDSHIPS “I’m experiencing a lot of emotions that I suppressed for a long time. It comes in Read more