LGBTQ news and entertainment
Abdul Ballout (above), the man suspected of driving through a crowd at Berlin Pride on Saturday killing one person and injuring 29 others, was shot and killed by police after a nearly 24-hour manhunt. Continue reading “Suspect In Berlin Pride Attack Killed By Police”
Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered peacefully in the German capital of Berlin for the annual Christopher Street Day Pride parade, one of Europe’s largest Pride events, before a car drove into the crowd ending the festivities. Continue reading “Berlin’s Pride Event Called Off After Car Drove Into Crowd”
Emmanuel the Emu – internet superstar (screen capture)
Dutch gay artist Dries Verhoeven is currently in the middle of a three week “live art installation” called Wanna Play? wherein he is engaging men on the dating app Grindr and projecting the conversations on a huge LED wall in a German storefront for the world to watch.
He is doing so without informing the men that the public can see the interactions.
Not surprisingly, many of the men are very upset.
Via Gay Star News:
Parker Tilghman is one of the men furious over the art show. When he started chatting to Verhoeven, they traded pictures and chatted for awhile before he was asked whether he was interested in shaving the artist’s beard.
‘Given the odd nature of our conversation I comically asked, “are you going to murder me?” to which he responded, “no, but i’m afraid you might be the one to murder me.”
When Tilghman went to the address the artist gave him, standing on the corner of Marienenstrasse, he saw his Grindr chat out there for everyone to see.
‘Someone involved in the project confronted me and I shouted at him louder than I have ever shouted in my life. The entire block stopped, at one point they started clapping. I screamed, “How dare you?
‘”You are violating peoples lives, you are publicly mocking people and projecting the pictures and words onto a screen that an entire city block in one of the busiest parts of Kreuzberg for everyone to see.
‘”What you are doing is unethical….At no point did you have my consent or notify me that you would be doing anything of the sort. You cannot exploit people like this for your bullshit hipster Berlin art world crap.”‘
The live-stream of the project is here, but it looks like the screen is not currently projecting conversations.
Word has gotten around about the little “social experiment.” As such, some of Verhoeven’s conversations go like this:
For an alternative “Valentine’s Day” celebration 🙂
Berlin, the groundbreaking synth-electro-pop band fronted by Terri Nunn, releases their seventh studio album, Animal, via 101 Records .
Animal incorporates modern electronic dance music, yet remains true to the groundbreaking synth-electro-pop sounds and amazing vocals that continue to define Berlin.
The edgy video features excellent vocals by Nunn, plus guest appearances from RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Raven and Sister Indica and DeMencha of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Berlin’s current tour schedule:
March 27 – Snoqualmie, Wash., Snoqualmie Casino
April 30 – Asbury Park, N.J., The Wonder Bar
May 1 – Philadelphia., Pa., World Café Live
May 2 – Hanover, Md., Maryland Live Casino
May 3 – New York, N.Y., Gramercy Theatre
At the 14:18 mark:
“When we stand up for our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters and treat their love and their rights equally under the law, we defend our own liberty as well.
“We are more free when all people can pursue their own happiness. And as long as walls exist in our hearts to separate us from those who don’t look like us, or think like us, or worship as we do, then we’re going to have to work harder, together, to bring those walls of division down.” – President Obama, speaking at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate today during the G8 Summit.