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GAY VEGAS EN ESPAÑOL BY TOÑO ESTRADA
Llega el OTOÑO TOÑO ESTRADA Y LARRY HERNANDEZ
Empezamos la edicion de Octubre recibiendo el otoño y no es que lleve mi nombre, porque en lo particular, a mi me gusta mas el verano; pero el Oh-toño tambien tiene lo suyo! A sacar las bufandas, suetercitos ligeros y las convivencias mas calidas con un buen cafecito, especialmente el Pumkin Spice Latte que ya esta de vuelta... y solo por temporada! Así que hay que aprovechar.
lo han tachado de agresivo, prepotente y de más. Yo les puedo comentar sobre el momento que conviví con Larry Hernandez y me pareció una persona sencilla, amable y super buena onda. ¡Recuerdo cuando lo vi en Miami hasta me pregunto, si me gusto la foto! Pero bueno crea fama y hechate a dormir, ¿no es cierto? ¡Esperemos se aclare toda esta situacion!
También, ¿Están listos para Halloween? Esta edición tendrán toda la información para saber donde estarán las mejores fiestas. ¿De que se disfrazarán? Yo el año pasado me vestí de Las Tortugas Ninjas.
También no se olviden que este 11 de Octubre es “National Coming Out Days” y nuestra comunidad lo estará celebrando. Aquí, en esta edición de Octubre te tenemos todos los detalles.
Por otro lado, lo mas comentado en estos últimos días, fue que el cantante Larry Hernandez fue encarcelado por autoridades de California , cuando el bajaba de un avión en la ciudad de Ontario y esto porque se le acusa de secuestro. Muchos
Nos vemos en la siguiente edición de Gay Vegas en Español. ¡No se olviden que proximamente tendremos los Latin Grammy’s aquí en Las Vegas! GayVegas.com
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PRIDE CONNECTIONS
BY CHRIS AZZOPARDI | PHOTO CREDIT: PHILIPPE BOSSÉ
The Riot’s Riot ‘Stonewall’ actor, director talk ‘whitewashing’ controversy, emotional brick-scene shoot and sex scene nerves
Blowback from a mere two-minute-and-twentythree-second trailer of Stonewall stormed the web in early August. It was intense. Like the historic brick-throwing, slur-lashing brawl that broke out in New York City outside a Greenwich Village gay bar in 1969, it provoked an uproar. And also like the Stonewall riots, the melting pot of people the film sought to represent felt… unrepresented. “To all considering watching the newest whitewashed version of queer history,” began self-proclaimed 18-year-old “transwomyn of color” Pat Cordova-Goff via the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, alleging the
movie’s cast lacked diversity. As she declared her resistance to openly gay action-turned-indie director Roland Emmerich’s fictional interpretation based around the events leading up to a landmark moment in LGBT history, the Stonewall riots, she rallied a fervent army of fellow boycotters. Twentyfour thousand... and counting. The issue, according to Cordova-Goff and other opponents: Its ivory lead, Jeremy Irvine as smalltown-turned-big-city rebel Danny Winters, is white.
And it’s true. He is not black. He is not Puerto Rican. He is not female. But the Stonewall ensemble, Irvine insists, is a “wide, diverse cast.” The 25-year-old English actor fully acknowledges he expected a passionate reaction to the film, particularly because “we’re doing a story that is so important to so many people.” Irvine, though, did not foresee the kind of pre-release revolt from those who claimed Stonewallunderemphasized the trans community and queer women of color, deeming the film a “whitewashed” take on an otherwise mixedminority historical occurrence. “That was a surprise; I never expected to hear that,” says Irvine, spotlighting Danny’s band of fellow rioters: Marsha P. Johnson (Otoja Abit), a black transwoman who co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries with prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera, and a lesbian credited by some as initiating the riot, calling on others to “do something.” Breakout actor Jonny Beauchamp also stars, playing self-proclaimed “street queen” Ray / Ramona, a composite of both Rivera and jailed protester Raymond Castro. Emmerich insists his dramatization, inspired by a distant friend’s real-life experience and also Emmerich’s own, is “inclusive”; that Irvine’s Danny is the lens through which we see these events unfold. “I think it’s cool when a white kid learns from a Puerto Rican and a black kid,” he continues, “and is a better person afterwards. Becomes a true friend.” Regarding the controversy: Emmerich says that, while shooting Independence Day: Resurgence, “they kept it away from me.” “Only for so long, however,” he continues. “After
a while, you kind of know what’s going on. I was shocked. Luckily, I had some gay activists, like Larry Kramer, speak up for us.” (Kramer, the 80-year-old writer and HIV activist, addressed Emmerich on Facebook: “Don’t listen to the crazies,” he wrote. “And thank you for your passion.”) So: Why did Emmerich cast a white, as he calls him, “catalyst character”? He says, simply, “You have to put yourself a little bit in, and I’m white.” Stonewall was never intended to focus on race but rather it was meant to trace the beginnings of the gay rights movement, the steps we’ve made and the steps we haven’t. For Emmerich, the director behind major blow-upeverything blockbusters such as Independence Day, Godzilla and Day After Tomorrow, it’s a passion project – a piece of work so close to his heart he self-financed the film with friends and even stepped in as director when no one else would. “Nobody wanted to do it,” he reveals, “and I was stubborn, and then I got it done.” Irvine was unfazed that, according to an Instagram post from out screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz, “no studio would give a cent to (this movie). Including the studios he (Emmerich) has made a great deal of money for.” With unconventional starring stints in films such as 2012’s Great Expectations and Beyond the Reach, the actor’s own projects have mostly been off the beaten path. “I’m on the side of anyone who thinks that we should have a bit more risk-taking with mainstream cinema,” says Irvine, who starred in GayVegas.com
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PRIDE CONNECTIONS Steven Spielberg’s emotional juggernaut War Horse. “It’s played far too safe.” Regarding Stonewall, Emmerich was determined to make this movie, studios be damned. “I said, ‘I’m not going away from my kids; I’m standing up for them.’” His “kids,” of course, include Irvine and Beauchamp, and the rest of the young, colorful core cast. But Emmerich’s Stonewall doesn’t seek to just tell its characters’ stories – the director, along with Baitz, had his eye on the bigger picture. His pursuit: to tell the story of LGBT youth everywhere. “Roland was always talking about the homeless kids who we don’t know about today,” Irvine says. “This little group of fictional characters represents those who weren’t made famous by the movement.” When Emmerich became involved with the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, he made a disheartening discovery: 40 percent of LA homeless youth are LGBT. Personally struck, he dug deeper and realized that history was repeating itself. “I was like, ‘Oh my god,’” he recalls. “At the same time, I read a lot about the Stonewall riots and found some kind of parallel – a group of homeless kids were very part of this riot too. The unsung heroes. I said, ‘Maybe I have to help.’” Emmerich threw himself into the project, researching the riots, and also, along with producers, interviewing several Stonewall vets. Limitations manifested quickly. As Irvine states, “Finding actual survivors is very difficult. This was just before the AIDS crisis, so actually finding people who were there is tough. And first accounts
do vary – I mean, it was a riot.” Their varied play-by-plays hindered the filmmakers’ fact-finding, a realization that led Emmerich to this conclusion: “Nobody knows what really happened that night.” “You always have to take their stories with a grain of salt,” he says. “It’s like when there’s a traffic accident and you ask five witnesses and they tell you five different stories.” When the final film was cut, those same sources were the first to screen it. Emmerich says they were “very, very surprised and complimentary about how right we got it.” And they knew this wasn’t a documentary. They knew Emmerich’s vision: “I’m always saying I made a movie about the unsung heroes of Stonewall. I wanted to give those kids a voice.” Because he found “the whole thing incredibly moving,” Irvine was on board immediately. “The script had me in pieces when I first read it,” he admits. Blown away by the writing and eager for the role, he hopped on a London-bound plane from Budapest, where he’d been filming another project, and showed up at Emmerich’s door, a scratch pad full of Stonewall notes in hand. “I really chased it,” Irvine says. “The script was by far the best thing I’d read in months. It wasn’t a difficult decision to go after it.” But still, Irvine was nervous. Would they get it right? He knew the LGBT community’s expectations would be inevitably high, and he says, “There’s a responsibility involved to do a story justice.” When shooting in NYC on Christopher Street (the mayhem originally unfolded there, in front of the Stonewall Inn) didn’t pan out as hoped – there
were too many people, and not enough time – the crew used an indoor facility in Montreal, leaving Emmerich questioning its true-to-life authenticity. “I panicked every day,” he remembers. During the weeklong riot shoot, feelings were intense. Lots of reflection. Lots of commemorating. “That whole sequence was a very emotionally charged piece to shoot,” recalls Irvine, who throws the brick in the film, mirroring the famously charged real-life moment. “We’re shooting with a lot of actors and people on the set who have a very personal relationship to the story. Very meaningful to them.” Others emotions (and, ahem, things) were present while Irvine shot his gay sex-scene debut with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, whose character represents one of the earliest gay rights groups in the U.S., the Mattachine Society, and crushes hard on Irvine’s new-kid-on-the-block character. Eventually they end up in bed. And with their clothes off. “It was my first gay sex scene in a film, and hey, to be honest, if you’re gonna do it, Jonathan Rhys Myers is not a bad choice,” says Irvine, noting he’s only filmed one other sex scene, guy-on-girl, before. “I’m pretty green to all that. And Jonathan obviously did The Tudors, and so he said, ‘Just relax. I used to do, like, 10 of these a day.’ So he was very cool. He took my hand. Took me through it.” “Jonathan totally took charge,” adds Emmerich. As he reflects on directing the scene, the director chuckles, admitting to making special accommodations for Irvine (“I kept it really short for his relief”) because “oh my god was he nervous.” Two men getting hot and heavy – Irvine just felt pressure to, you know, get it right. And with Stonewall too, of course. To prepare, Irvine powered
through a stack of books and also listened to producer-conducted interviews. “I didn’t know a huge amount about (Stonewall) before I read the script and did all my research,” he admits. “I was quite ashamed at how ignorant I was about the Stonewall Movement.” Now the public will see the end-result, the culmination of a passionate director and his equally-as-passionate cast – and not for two minutes. For two hours. Emmerich expects more scrutiny, but shrugs it off. “I don’t know what they will say,” he says. “They will probably find other stuff to criticize. I always say a movie’s a movie and it is what it is. We all are really super proud of it.” Echoing the latter sentiment, Irvine is pleased to be a part of Stonewall, a project that he believes will put nearly a half-century of gradual progress – from the riots to the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality – into perspective. “I hope that the movie brings home how important that period of history was,” he says. “If we can bring that more to the forefront of people’s thoughts, then the film has done what it’s meant to do.” GayVegas.com
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GAY VEGAS MOVIES
BY MIKEY ROX
SCREAM QUEENS 13 Hot Scary-Movie Villains Who Give Us Beautiful Nightmares Hot horror movie villains are hard to come by – what with all the blood and guts that usually characterize those that terrorize – but there are a few smokin’ standouts in the genre. Settle in for a spookfest this Halloween with these sexy beasts that aim to keep us up at night – for more reasons than one.
Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
While Patrick Bateman’s morning exercise and beautification routine in the opening sequence was a tone-setting jumping off point for a film so narcissistic it hurt, it was the ménage-á-trois with two ill-fated hookers in which he admires his ample muscles in the mirror that solidified Christian Bale’s status as a sex symbol. And that all happens before he starts running through the hallways of his apartment building wielding a chainsaw with his naked manhood swaying to and fro. Because, ya know, build up. 40 Gay Vegas Magazine
Santanico Pandemonium, From Dusk Till Dawn
When your last name is Pandemonium, it’s only appropriate that you live up to that reputation. As vampire queen and main attraction at the Titty Twister strip club and brothel, Santanico (Salma Hayek) sinks her teeth into Richie Gecko just before being impaled by a chandelier herself. Bloodlust has never looked so alluring.
Billy Loomis, Scream
Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) seemed like the perfect boyfriend on the surface – sexy, mysterious, brooding – until, of course, he started offing all his girlfriend Sidney’s (Neve Campbell) closest allies with the help of knife-happy bestie Stu (Matthew Lillard). As Dionne would say – that’s what friends are for.
David, The Lost Boys
Carrie White, Carrie
Charlie Venner, Straw Dogs
Charles Brady, Sleepwalkers
If you were an ’80s baby, _The Lost Boys_ was probably the first time you fell in love with Corey Haim and Jason Patric. But there was something about Keifer Sutherland’s vampire David that had a certain magnetism all its own. That undead-rebelwithout-a-cause thing was totally in back then. There are no redeemable qualities about psychopath Charlie Venner (Alexander Skarsgard), unless you count those steely blues eyes, sculpted pecs, masculine jaw, bulging biceps, pearly smile… oh, hell, just take me already.
David McCall, Fear
We’ve all had that one hookup who wouldn’t take the hint that we weren’t interested, yet he kept coming around and making trouble until somebody got hurt. No? Just me? Guess that wouldn’t be so embarrassing if mine looked more like Mark Wahlberg instead of the lost Wahlberg that nobody wants out of the house.
Jennifer Check, Jennifer’s Body
Popular cheerleader Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) is sacrificed by a local band in exchange for fame and fortune, but the ritual backfires and her body is inhabited by a demonic presence. So, naturally, she goes around eating all the boys in town between make-out seshes with her gal pal Needy (Amanda Seyfried). Typical Friday night.
Norman Bates, Psycho
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) has mommy issues. Like, committed matricide and hid her dead body in the basement kind of crazy. But that smile, dude; it’s water under the bridge with a flash of that grill. And, hey, maybe she deserved it. Yeah, let’s go with that. Just stay out of the shower.
Shy, studious Carrie White just wanted to fit in, but her mother warned her: “They’re all gonna laugh at you.” But she got the last laugh at prom when, after they dumped pig’s blood on her as prom queen, she Burned. That. Bitch. Down. Mmmkay. It may have a 15-percent rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but Stephen King’s supernatural tale of werecats feeding on virgin women’s life forces is a speedy Sunday afternoon trashfest made better by Brian Krause’s turn as Charles Brady, a boy-next-door shapeshifting energy vampire… who’s deathly afraid of the puss-puss. So basically your life story.
Marybeth Louise Hutchinson, The Faculty
Queen alien chick disguised as an innocent Southern belle stands to satisfy all you lady lovers (there’s even a little skin to up the ante), while me and my bros can revel in the late-’90s man candy that is Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Shawn Hatosy and Usher Raymond.
Sil, Species
Another film about a seductress alien, and I’m sensing a pattern here: Where are the movies about Martian men built like brick you-knowwhats? If you’re a feminist, you probably have a lot to say about this successful sci-fi thriller in which Sil (Natasha Henstridge) tries to mate with a bunch of unwilling (as if) guys and then blackwidowing them for fun.
Jerry, Fright Night
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POSITIVE THOUGHTS
BY JEFF BERRY
Viral Fatigue I recently attended the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association’s 25th National Convention in San Francisco. NLGJA’s first convention took place in the city by the bay in 1990, so this year’s conference was aptly called Coming Home. The four-day meeting was filled with workshops, plenaries and programs for LGBT journalists looking to sharpen their skills, network and meet up with old friends. I’ve worked in the HIV field for over 23 years, and participate in dozens of meetings, conferences and activities throughout the year and around the country, but all of them are related to HIV. This conference is refreshing for me because it’s not HIV-specific, and it allows me to break out of my “HIV bubble” and gain a renewed perspective. When you’ve worked in the same field and organization for 23 years like I have, you can easily become siloed in your work and vision myopic. Everything is seen through the lens of HIV, and you stand in danger of suffering from what I call “viral fatigue.”
Those of us in the broader LGBT community can undergo viral fatigue as well. If you’ve made it this far in reading this column, whether you’re HIV-negative or not, congratulations. People often get tired of hearing or talking about HIV – I know I do! “Isn’t that manageable now?” I often hear. Or, “Is that really a big deal anymore?” In this age of successful treatment of HIV to an undetectable viral load (which nearly eliminates the chance of transmitting the virus to others), and now PrEP, a one-pill-a-day medication that prevents those who are negative from acquiring the virus, maybe it’s time for us to just move on? It would be nice to think so, but sadly, no. New HIV infections are increasing at alarming rates in certain subgroups, including young, gay black men and trans women. And it’s not necessarily because they are taking more risks – a recent study showed that young, gay, black men actually took fewer risks than their white counterparts, GayVegas.com
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but saw more infections, because the sexual networks they interacted with had more people who were HIV-positive, and they therefore had more exposure to the virus. We have a unique opportunity in our community to change the narrative, and steer the conversation in a new direction. It’s no longer enough to say “use a condom every time.” By having candid, open and honest conversations with our partners, our healthcare providers, and most of all with others in our community, we can
gain a fresh perspective and a new outlook. If we take the time to learn about new prevention modalities, and understand that there is no “one size fits all” when it comes to preventing HIV, then maybe we’ll be a little less “judgy” about the choices of others. I admit I get a little viral fatigue now and then. But I never get tired of learning new things, gaining insight or a new perspective, and helping someone to look at something in a new and different way.
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COMMUNITY RESOURCES Welcome to our community resources section. This community resources section has been created for our LGBT community and is made possible by the following community sponsors. These sponsors allow us to provide our readers with the resources they need and highlight the non-profit organizations that make a positive impact on our LGBT community.
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SOCIAL AND SUPPORT GROUPS AND ACTIVITIES ACT III Senior Drop-in Monday–Friday 10:30AM–2PM Gay Men’s Forum Every Wednesday 6–7:30PM Identi-T* FLUX TRANS* YOUTH GROUP Wednesdays 3PM. OUT OF THE (GENDER) BOX Tuesdays 7–8PM. SWITCH TRANS* CLOTHING SWAP Thursdays 5–6PM and Fridays 5–5:30PM. T*GETHER July 15 on Wednesdays at 6:30pm. TRANS.LATION Fridays 5:30–7AM. TRANSMASCULINE GROUP A Third Saturday of every month 10:30–11:30AM. The L Group RAP N’ MORE social group meets each Friday at 7pm. The group features a rap/chat group the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, crafts on the 2nd Friday and lesbian movie night the 4th Friday. Many Loves: Polyamory/Non-monogamy Group Second Tuesday of Every Month 8PM. PFLAG Second Saturday of Every Month 10AM Prime Timers Third Saturday of Every Month 12–2PM QVolution Youth Program Every Tuesday and Thursday 6–10PM Social CirKish FALL: Tues./Thurs. 5:30–7:30PM (9/10–11/14) Southern Nevada Bisexuals Second Monday of Every Month 5–6PM Vegas Mpowerment Project Every Monday and Friday 7:30PM GayVegas.com
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HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAMS Addiction Recovery Groups The following peer-led recovery programs meet at The Center every week: ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (AA) Monday–Friday 6:30–7:30PM AA EN ESPAÑOL Every Saturday 10:00AM–NOON GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS (GA) Every Wednesday 8:15PM NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS (NA) Every Saturday 2–3PM SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (SAA) Every Tuesday 6–7PM SMART RECOVERY Every Monday 7–8:30PM Free HIV and Syphilis Testing and Counseling Monday–Thursday 10:30AM–5PM and the first Saturday of each month 10:00AM-3PM Free Vaccinations Monday and Wednesday 10:30AM–4PM Living Well Every Tuesday 6–7PM
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ADDITIONAL SERVICES Community Information & Referrals Our information and referral desk staff and volunteers happily provide information on topics such as LGBTQ activities, support groups and organizations throughout the Las Vegas Valley as well as referrals to public assistance, counselors, doctors, attorneys, churches and more. Cultural Competency Training The Center’s knowledgeable program staff can lead a variety of cultural competency trainings for companies and organizations, on topics such as HIV, gender identity and the LGBTQ community. A complete menu of trainings is under development. David Bohnett CyberCenter Our CyberCenter, recently refreshed by the David Bohnett Foundation with internet service proudly powered by Cox Communications, provides individuals with two free hours of computer and internet usage Monday through Saturday during Center business hours. Many users enjoy access to social media, games and streaming video while others take advantage of the Microsoft Office suite for resumé-building and other tasks. David R. Parks Lending Library Named by the community in honor of Nevada State Senator David Parks, our lending library offers more than 4,000 fiction and non-fiction books and hundreds of DVDs to borrow at no charge for a two-week period. While the majority are of an LGBTQ nature, we also offer a wide variety of mainstream works. Multipurpose Event Spaces Perfect for meetings, social events, banquets and much more, our Event Hall provides 3,000 sq. ft. of versatile space. Through the use of movable walls, the space can be divided into six smaller meeting rooms or opened to accommodate 200 individuals for dinner or 300 for a live performance. A stage, dance floor and projector with screen are all available to use. In addition, we have 18-seat and 12-seat conference rooms with marker-boards and 42” televisions for smaller meetings. Room usage prices and other details may be found online at www.thecenterlv.org/rooms. Outdoor Sports Court & Courtyard A half-court, outdoor basketball court to the east of our main entrance is available for public use. Observers may enjoy the game from nearby benches and picnic tables. To the west of our entrance, a lushly landscaped courtyard with five picnic tables may be used for simply enjoying the weather or sharing a meal with friends. GayVegas.com
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Aid for AIDS of Nevada (AFAN) provides support and advocacy for adults and children living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Nevada. AFAN works to reduce HIV infection through prevention and education to eliminate fear, prejudice and the stigma associated with the disease.
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