Melissa Etheridge has been through it all. Between knocking out 11 albums over the course of a 25-year music career, touring, and making cameos on the TV and silver screens, Etheridge has handled two broken relationships, and a battle with cancer. She isn’t tired, though, and insists she has a lot left in her.
“As long as I’m creating at the level that I am now and as long as it’s an expression, you know, not work that I have to do, I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon,” she says. Her most recent work is on a new album entitled Fearless Love, and she insists her inspirations remain the same. “It is pretty much experience, emotion,” she adds. “All of it comes from the intention to show how our lives are a choice between love and fear. Fear is in everything we do, but we can chose love. This is just about how we look at life.”
Las Vegas became even more fabulous from Aug. 12 to 15 when the city hosted its first Fabulous Vegas Weekend. The event was a four-day party promoted by the city of Las Vegas, MGM Resorts and Logo TV. I was asked to host the Logo TV Lounge inside EyeCandy at the Mandalay Bay Resort and also the Fabulous Pool party at Luxor. Many celebrities walked the red carpet at the Logo Lounge and performed at the pool party, and each stopped by to say hi and give me their naked truth. So without further adieu here are the best celebrity quotes from Fabulous Vegas Weekend:
Southern Nevada Association of Pride Inc. (SNAPI), the group behind Las Vegas PRIDE Week, announced at their annual meeting on Aug. 17 they are moving the festivities, normally held in May, to the month of September, beginning in 2011. The main reason for the controversial move is to turn the festival into a Las Vegas destination event, which many board members don't believe will happen if it continues during the month of May.
Their new mission is to increase tourist attendance since local numbers have not grown in more than eight years. SNAPI has received criticism year after year when attendance numbers are announced and the festival never exceeds 8,500, which was reached in 2008 despite the recession that began hitting Las Vegas in late 2007. There is currently no explanation from the board as to why the attendance does not increase with each passing year; however, many in the community complain the PRIDE Festival is nothing more than a picnic with vendors and inconsequential entertainment, and they would much rather attend the various evening parties.
September 15 marks the second LGBT Center Awareness Day, a national day of action focused on awareness around the work of LGBT community centers. The theme of this year’s LGBT Center Awareness Day is “Building Our Community from the Center,” showcasing the vital role that community centers play in the health, empowerment, and unity of all LGBT communities.
LGBT Center Awareness Day was created to bring attention to the LGBT Community Center Movement, which serves 40,000 people weekly. Because LGBT community centers are the backbone of the LGBT movement, raising awareness within the LGBT community and the general public will draw much-needed attention to the work that centers have done and continue to do to support LGBT people and the entire LGBT movement. LGBT Center Awareness Day also provides a vital opportunity for individuals, groups and organizations to become more involved in supporting and utilizing their local community center.
You may have heard them on the airways of country radio. Perhaps you’ve seen them featured in People magazine. You may have watched them on CMT. And now, you will get to know a little more about the up and coming country artists, The Carter Twins. These two fun and dynamic young men have a wicked sense of humor. When asked if they are identical or fraternal, Josh replied, “We are identical… I think... we never really found out but we say we are. We just cut our hair the same and people can’t tell the difference... so, identical it is! Ha!”
The International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) proudly announces the Bud Light World Gay Rodeo Finals at the Mojave Crossing Event Center and the AVI Resort and Casino, Oct. 21-24. It’s Your ultimate rodeo vacation, with rodeo action and outstanding entertainment all weekend long.
Head down to the Laughlin, Nev./Bullhead City, Ariz. area on Thursday for a welcome pool party at 2 p.m. at the AVI Lagoon pool, followed by a slot tournament at 4 p.m., and a World Gay Rodeo Finals Kickoff Show at the Lariat Saloon at 8 p.m.
“Rita Mae Brown who wrote Rubyfruit Jungle. Haven’t you read it? It’s a fantastic book, you know,” wrote Willy Russel in his film, Educating Rita.
Rita Mae Brown is not your mother’s lesbian, even though she has been around long enough to be hailed “as the Mother of the Feminist Movement, the Gay Movement,” as she writes on her website, www.ritamaebrown.com. More like l’enfant terrible of the Feminist Movement for her role in the Lavender Menace protests over the exclusion of lesbians from the ‘70s women’s movement.
20,000 shows. 350,000 costume changes. Two stars on the Las Vegas Walk of Fame. Named eight times as Best Dressed Las Vegan.
We’re talking about the legendary female impersonator Frank Marino, of course. The star and creator of Frank Marino’s Divas Las Vegas will be celebrating his 25th anniversary of performing on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, September 23, maintaining his long-standing title of longest-running headliner.
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