Gay everywhere
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE) is a left-of-center activist and networking organization that focuses on providing programs and resources to children of woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. The organization was founded in 1990 and has a unassuming budget with a mostly volunteer staff. COLAGE operates several affinity and age-specific groups for parents and children within the LGBT people. The group was among the several LGBT advocacy groups that opposed the possible release of the writings of the perpetrator of a school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee in April 2023.
Background
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere was founded in 1990 under the name “Just For Us.” The group began as an informal organization of six adolescent people with womxn loving womxn and gay parents. In 1996, the group specifically widened in scope to include children of bisexual and gender nonconforming individuals to its mission. The collective also drove the popularity of the term “queerspawn,” a term that it says has been “lovingly adopted” by some children of LGBT parents.
In the early 2000s, COLAGE stated that it grew its membership thanks to the increase in LGBT couples sta
A gay bar called Everywhere
Start ›Events›A gay exclude called Everywhere
By Every Ocean Hughes
4.3 2022
Where can we still find homosexual spaces in Stockholm? Why have so many disappeared in the last scant years? How can we make new spaces? The performance “A Gay Lock Called Everywhere (with costumes and no practice)” creates a space in which we can celebrate and reflect on the changes, challenges and triumphs that shape queer life.
The collaborative performance project “A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (with costumes and no practice)” began with the idea that all of philosopher and writer Susan Sontag’s life and perform took place in a gay bar. She never left the table. People come and go – styles, decades, regimes, and theories.
Ten years after its initial staging at the performance space The Kitchen in New York, the gay bar is “re-spaced” at MDT in Stockholm. On stage, we encounter a group of international and Stockholm-based artists, writers and curators, who shift between performance, improvisation and everyday life. During this durational work, they each contribute their part to a collective staging that thinks through and performs the myriad changes, challenges, and glories that
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RFD: A Region Journal for Same-sex attracted Men Everywhere, Winter 1987-1988. Donald Engstrom Papers [MsC1170], Extraordinary Collections & Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.
From the exhibit:
RFD was first published out of Grinnell, Iowa and printed by the Iowa City Women’s Apply pressure in 1974. A “Country Journal for Gay Men Everywhere,” the magazinewas originally a way for gay men living in rural places to connect with one another as readers wrote to the magazine about their lives and to find other gay men nearby.
The magazine’s name is an homage to Rural Free Delivery (RFD), a program of the Joined States Postal Service established in the late 19th century which ensures mail delivery to rural addresses. Most issues of the magazine, which is still being produced today by another publisher, include different interpretations of the acronym. Some examples enclose Rustic Fairy Dreams, Reaching Far-away Darlings, Really Feeling Excellent, Reckless Fruit Delight, and Roaming Faerie Diaspora.
Read the above featured issue online via RFD.
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This collaborative performance project began with the idea that all of Susan Sontag’s life and work took place in a queer bar. She never left the table. People reach and go—styles, decades, regimes, and theories. This scene lead way to a loose formulation about performance, performativity, and theorizing the struggle and ingenuity of queer life. The scene of the gay exclude, Everywhere, the refuge, morality, desire, violence, telling. Rubbed up alongside the history of feminist intellectuals and the history of the Kitchen. I invited participating artists to respond to this formulation.
A Gay Block Called Everywhere (With Costumes and No Practice),2011/2022.Live performance;4 hours.The Kitchen, New York Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
2011 performance at the Kitchen:
Yve Laris Cohen, Nicole Eisenman, JD Samson, A.L. Steiner, Tara Mateik, Barbara Hammer, Will Rawls, K8 Hardy, Charles Long, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, MPA, Neal Medlyn, Vanessa Anspaugh, Aretha Aoki, Jeanine Oleson, Becca Albee, Tami Hart, Elaine Carberry, Thomas J. Lax, Jibz Cameron, Sacha Yanow, Nao Bustamante, Dean Daderko
2022 performance at Moderna Museet:
Jeremy Atherton Lin, Morgan Bassichis, Jibz Cameron, Sa