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Activist playwright Wayne Self is a Huffington Post blogger, GLAAD media partner, and composer whose essays and plays have, at times, catapulted him to national prominence on issue ranging from religious culture to LGBT equality. His latest musical, Upstairs, about the deadliest crime against LGBT people in U.S. history, the 1973 arson fire at the Up Stairs Lounge in New Orleans, premieres in New Orleans this June on the 40th anniversary of the fire.
"Owldolatrous Press is my personal blog, but it's also more than that. It's the opportunity for me to promote other LGBTQ and allied voices of reason, humanity, and compassion. Here, we favor art over beefcake and discussion over stridency. We like to think things through. If you'd like to see an article or piece of art or music featured here, please reach out."
Owldolatrous Press publishes theatrical and musical compositions that explore the intersection of faith and sexuality. These productions are suitable for church, theatre, or cabaret performances. To learn more, click here.
Tweet by David Gerrold Supposedly, April is the cruelest month (and with the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, October is making a bid for the title this year,) but for LGBTQ people, November has long been the cruelest month. It is the month when America goes to the polls. For most of the last twenty...
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Tweet by Zach McCallum Art © Justin Hubbell According to Urban Dictionary, a “nonpliment” is a back-handed insult disguised as a compliment, and trans* people hear a lot of them. Sometimes the insult is actually intended, but as often as not, an insult isn’t what the nonpliment giver had in mind at all; they genuinely...
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Tweet Lana Wachowski, formerly Larry Wachowsky and noted director of some amazing movies, from The Matrix to the current Cloud Atlas, gave a brave and moving speech at HRC… read all about it at The Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lana-wachowskis-hrc-visibility-award-382177
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Tweet This week, Hootenanny presents a sharp piece of satire about the strangeness of legislating against people’s sexuality in the first place. Here’s what New York songstress Addie Brownlee has to say about this exclusive track, “We’re Not Really Gay”. As a woman whose right to choose is being assaulted from every direction, including...
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Tweet The run-up to an important election can be a trying time for friendships, especially for LGBTQ people who feel personally attacked when their friends vote for anti-equality candidates. Some of us, like blogger Kergan Edwards-Stout, find ourselves saying "Please De-Friend Me". In this open letter from Editor-in-Chief Wayne Self to a dear family...
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Tweet by Anonymous Our correspondant is a gay American living in China who, due to the dangers inherent in his situation, must remain anonymous. What’s it like to be a gay man in a society that officially accepts that being gay is not harmful… but also not particularly traditional? Are there commonalities in picking...
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Tweet by Saunia Powell Leaving the Bay Area. I’m afraid to say… I chose to do this. I moved to Gay Mecca to attend grad school with a strict plan to stay only the three years my program required. Six years later, the momentum of NorCal living still had its gentle, stoned tentacles caressing me. Over the...
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Tweet Our friends at The New Civil Rights Movement have a story on Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s latest statement on gay rights… read all about it here: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/romney-hospital-visitation-for-gay-couples-are-benefits-not-rights/politics/2012/10/20/51681
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Tweet I woke up on the ground several miles out from the base of the beanstalk inside of a small, but oddly deep crater. “Ow ow ow ow ow,” I yammered sitting up. I hurt everywhere. I reached into my pouch of pebbles and froze. There was a crowd of people surrounding the hole...
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Tweet “I am impressed boy.” Primate Dion’s voice emanated from the walls of the lift car. “In the midst of your personal upheaval you did not resort to mealy-mouthed self-pity. I honestly expected you to go for the screeching that typically accompanies those kinds of arguments.” “He has been coached,” Sivar intervened. “Really?” Dion...
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