By MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) – On his 75th birthday, Bill Farthing decided to be reborn. In the six years since he’d buried his wife of 45 years, he’d felt as he did long before: Lonesome, different, outcast. He wondered if he was going crazy; he contemplated suicide. Looking back, the clues [...]
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Gay seniors come out late, start second lifetime
Posted: 16th March 2010 by donwill in Gay History, Hot topicsTags: Gay Seniors, LGBT seniors, relationships, SAGE
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Weddings bells ring for D.C. same-sex couples
Posted: 10th March 2010 by donwill in Breaking News, Gay History, Gay MarriageTags: D.C., Washington, Weddings
AP One bride wore a knee-length lace dress and pearls. The other bride wore a yellow shirt and white suit. And when a pastor pronounced them “partners in life this day and for always” Tuesday they hugged and smiled as wedding guests and nearly a dozen TV cameras and reporters looked on. Tuesday was the [...]
Mexico City passes full marriage rights bill
Posted: 2nd February 2010 by donwill in Breaking News, Gay History, Gay Marriage, Hot topics, Politics, ReligionTags: Catholic, Gay Marriage, gays and lesbians, Mexico City, President Felipe Calderon
MEXICO CITY – Mexico City became the first capital in Catholic, often macho Latin America to allow same-sex marriage on Monday when city legislators passed a law giving gay couples full marriage rights. The legislation goes further than a 2006 city law allowing civil unions by giving gay couples access to the same family social [...]
The passing of one of the greatest pianists ever. Earl Wild has died.
Posted: 29th January 2010 by gmikewill in Gay History, StyleTags: Earl Wild, History, Instrumentalist, Michael Rolland Davis, performance, pianist, Symphony
Wild was not “wild” when he played. He remained in control, not flailing about with hands and arms as he played; I heard him in an interview quite a few years ago; he said that the pianist was not the important item at the concert; the music was and the instrumentalists should put the music [...]