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St Mary, Kettlebaston, Suffolk
I always look forward to coming back to Kettlebaston. It is likely that anyone who knows the churches of Suffolk well will have Kettlebaston among their favourites. The setting is delectable, in the remote Suffolk hills between Hadleigh and Stowmarket. The building is at once elegant and interesting, the interior stunning, but most fascinating of all, perhaps, is the story behind the way it is today.
In 1963, in the thirty-third year of his incumbency as Rector of the parish of Kettlebaston, Father Harold Clear Butler sent a letter to a friend. "You are right,"he wrote. "There is no congregation any more." In failing health, he relied on the family of a vicar who had retired nearby to carry out the ceremonies of Easter week that year. In 1964, Father Butler himself retired, and an extraordinary episode in the history of the Anglo-Catholic movement in Suffolk came to an end.
There may have been no congregation, but St Mary at Kettlebaston was a shrine, to which people made pilgrimages from all over England. Here was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches, where Father Butler said the Roman Mass every day, celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sunday, dispensed with churchwardens, flouted the authority of the Anglican diocese by tearing down state notices put up in the porch, refused to keep registers, and even, as an extreme, ignored the office of the local Archdeacon of Sudbury. An entry from the otherwise empty registers for October 2nd 1933 reads Visitation of Archdeacon of Sudbury. Abortive. Archdeacon, finding no churchwardens present, rode off on his High Horse!
Father Butler came to this parish when the Anglo-Catholic movement was at its height, and survived into a poorly old age as it retreated, leaving him high and dry. But not for one moment did he ever compromise.
Kettlebaston church is not just remote liturgically. You set off from the vicinity of Hadleigh, finding your way to the back of beyond at Brent Eleigh - and then beyond the back of beyond, up the winding roads that climb into the hills above Preston. Somewhere here, two narrow lanes head north. One will take you to Thorpe Morieux, and one to Kettlebaston, but I can never be sure which is which, or even if they are always in the same place. Finding your way to this, one of the most remote of all Suffolk villages, can be like finding your way into Narnia. Once in the village, you find the church surrounded by a high yew hedge, through which a passage conducts a path into the graveyard. On a buttress, a statue of the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven sits behind a grill. It is a copy of an alabaster found under the floorboards during the 1860s restoration. The original is now in the British Museum.
One Anglo-catholic tradition that has not been lost here is that the church should always be open, always be welcoming. You enter through the small porch, perhaps not fully prepared for the wonders that await. The nave you step into is light, clean and well-cared for. There is no coloured glass, no heavy benches, no tiles. The brick floor and simple wooden chairs seem as one with the air, a perfect foil for the rugged Norman font on its elegant legs. And then, the surprise of the rich view to the east, for the fixtures and fittings of the 20th Century Anglo-Catholic tradition survive here in all their splendour.
The two major features are the rood screen and the high altar. The rood screen is the work of several people, having been added to over the years by a roll-call of prominent Anglo-Catholic artists. It was designed by Ernest Geldart in the early 1900s. It was painted by Patrick Osborne in 1949, apart from the figures, which are the work of Enid Chadwick in 1954. They are: St Felix as a bishop holding a candle, St Thomas More in regalia, St Thomas of Canterbury with a sword through his mitre, St John Fisher as a bishop holding a book, St Alban in armour and St Fursey holding Burgh Castle.
To one side, the Sacred Heart altar bears the original stone mensa from the high altar. The table itself is the Stuart Communion table. To the other, a Lady altar. All of these are either gifts or rescued from redundant Anglo-Catholic churches elsewhere. The elegant grill in front of the rood loft stairs is by Ninian Comper.
Stepping through into the chancel is a reminder of how the clearance of clutter can improve a liturgical space. Here, the emptiness provides a perfect foil for the massive altar piece. The altar itself was the gift of Miss Eleanor Featonby Smith, consecrated by the Bishop of Madagascar in 1956, in one of those ceremonies conducted in the labyrinthine underworld of the Anglo-catholic movement. The altar sports what is colloquially referred to as the Big Six - the trademark six candlesticks of an Anglo-catholic parish. Behind them, the rich reredos is also by Ernest Geldart, and was also painted by Patrick Osborne.
At the west end of the nave is a display case holding facsimiles of the Kettlebaston alabasters, an oddly prosaic moment. But Kettlebaston's medieval past is not entirely rebooted, for the chancel was sensitively restored by Ernest Geldart in 1902 with none of the razzmatazz of his church at Little Braxted in Essex. The east window was rebuilt to the same design as the original, as was the roof. The late 13th Century piscina and sedilia are preserved, and on the north side of the chancel survives an impressive tomb recess of about the same date.
The sole memorial is to Joan, Lady Jermyn, who died in 1649. Her inscription, at the End of the English Civil War and the start of the ill-fated Commonwealth, is a fascinating example of the language of the time. Is it puritan in sympathy, or Anglican? Or simply a bizarre fruit of the ferment of ideas in that World Turned Upside Down? Within this dormitory lyes interred ye corpps of Johan Lady Jermy it begins, and continues whose arke after a passage of 87 yeares long through this deluge of teares... rested upon ye mount of joye. And then the verse:
Sleepe sweetly, Saint. Since thou wert gone
ther's not the least aspertion
to rake thine asshes: no defame
to veyle the lustre of thy name.
Like odorous tapers thy best sent
remains after extinguishment.
Stirr not these sacred asshes, let them rest
till union make both soule & body blest.
Above, the roofs drip with hanging paraffin lamps, the walls have their candle brackets, for this little church still has no electricity. You sense the attraction of Benediction on a late winter afternoon.
St Mary is loved and cared for by those who worship in it. There are rather more of them than in Father Butler's final days, but they are still a tiny, remote community. Since 1964, they have been part of a wider benefice, and must toe the Anglican mainstream line, as at Lound. But also, as at Lound, the relics of the Anglo-Catholic heyday here are preserved lovingly, and, judging by the visitors book, it is not just the regular worshippers who love it, for Anglo-Catholics from all over England still treat it as a goal of pilgrimage. I remember sitting in this church on a bright spring afternoon some twenty years ago. I'd been sitting for a while in near-silence, which was suddenly broken by the clunk of the door latch. Two elderly ladies came in. They smiled, genuflected towards the east, and greeted me. Together, they went to the Sacred Heart altar, put a bunch of violets in a vase on it, and knelt before it. The silence continued, now with a counterpoint of birdsong from the churchyard through the open door. Then they stood, made the sign of the cross, and went out again. Father Butler looked on and smiled, I'm sure.
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The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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SPAIN, Bilbilis. Tiberius. 14-27 AD. Aelius Seianus, magistrate. Laureate head right / COS in wreath. RPC I 398; Burgos 196. Many of these rare coins have Sejanus' name obliterated, Sejanus having suffered damnatio memoriae after his overthrow and death later in the year 31 AD.
Date Unknown
Source www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/sejanus/i.html
Author Tiberius
Praetorian Prefect from 23-31 A.D., Sejanus received extraordinary power and trust from the emperor Tiberius. While in self-imposed exile on Capri, Tiberius entrusted Sejanus with the almost complete control of imperial affairs. But Sejanus betrayed that trust by continuously scheming to gain the throne, even poisoning Tiberius' son. Tiberius eventually discovered the truth about his "partner" and ended his ambition and his life in 31 A.D.
Sejanus started his career with his father as prefect (head) of the praetorian guard under Tiberius in the year 14 A.D. When his father was re-appointed as prefect of Egypt, Sejanus inherited the job as sole head of the praetorian guard in 23 A.D.. In his eight-year career Sejanus would unleash an infamous hell on the city of Rome.
In 19 A.D. Germanicus, Tiberius heir apparent, died under suspicious circumstances. Most likely, Tiberius had him poisoned because he believed Germanicus' popularity was a threat to his rule. It was also suspected that Tiberius had had Germanicus killed for the popular general’s wasting of the Imperial treasury for a fleet of 1,000 ships which he failed to use. Sejanus was assigned to kill Germanicus' sons, but was only partially successful. Gaius, better known as "Caligula" (little boot), one of Germanicus' sons that survived, later became emperor. Six other children with Caligula escaped with there lives from Antioch, where the elimination of Germanicus and his family were supposed to occur.
Sejanus, according to Suetonius, was not particularly liked by Tiberius, however, in a speech to the Senate the emperor referred to him as "the partner of my labors." As time went on, Tiberius trusted Sejanus more and more. Meanwhile, Sejanus was gathering power for himself and eliminating all his potential rivals to the throne.
During an argument with Drusus, Drusus simply came over to Sejanus and socked him out of rage. After this Sejanus and Drusus were finding themselves often in conflict. Sejanus even began an affair with Drusus' wife, Livilla. As their affair became more involved, their fear of discovery grew. Sejanus even had two illegitimate children (Tiberius and Germanicus Gemellus) with Livilla. Ancient sources tell us most people thought they were sons of Drusus, but that even Tiberius was skeptical. Sejanus and Livilla planned and eventually gave Drusus a slow acting poison that killed him on the 14th of September, 23 A.D. Sejanus had eliminated his greatest contender for power.
Also in 23 A.D. Sejanus, with the consent of Tiberius, gathered all nine praetorian cohorts which were spread all over Italy at the time, and put them into one barracks inside the capitol. This arrangement would continue for the next 450 years.
Though Sejanus’s mother was very distinguished, and his father very successful, he was still from an equestrian family and considered of "low birth." In the year 20 (according to Tacitus), to get an imperial marriage into his own family, Sejanus had his daughter betrothed to Claudius Drusus, the eldest son of Claudius. Only a few days before the ceremony was to occur, however, Claudius Drusus choked on a pear and died. Sejanus then had his sister, Aelia Paetina, married to Claudius (who was not yet emperor) himself. But none of these efforts brought Sejanus any closer to the throne. In 25 Sejanus requested Tiberius' approval to marry Livilla but to the prefect’s dismay the emperor denied it due to his low birth.
In 27 Tiberius self-imposed his own exile (or semi-retirement) to Capri for the rest of his life, and left Sejanus as his agent to carry out his orders. Tiberius lived on the resort island of Capri for the rest of his years while all hell broke loose in the eternal city. In the Year 29, Tiberius’s mother, Livia, died. Without her watching, Sejanus increasingly felt free to conduct his devious work without the risk of being caught.
For a long time the populace had written graffiti "Rendite nos Germanicum!", or in English "Give us back Germanicus," all over the city. Germanicus' wife, Agrippina, had lead riots against Tiberius for eliminating the beloved Germanicus. Tiberius’s popularity and PR was going down the drain, so to speak. Tiberius had a dupondius struck for Agrippina with the personification IVSTITIA, or Justice (alluding to her search for it). When this did not appease her, Sejanus and Tiberius accused her of having an affair with Ascinius Gallus, a man who had aspired to the throne since Augustus’s reign. The emperor and Sejanus finally defamed her and had Agrippina and her eldest son Nero Caesar arrested. She was so severely punished that she lost an eye in one of the many floggings she received from a centurion. In 29 she was banished, along with Nero Caesar, to the island of Pandataria where in 30 or 31 both were starved to death. Evidently, Pandataria was the island of exile for Agrippina’s mother, Julia, after she had committed promiscuity.
In the year 31 Sejanus' schemes grew bolder and he conspired to overthrow the emperor himself. After Nero Caesar's death Sejanus was betrothed to his wife Livia Julia (although, it is not perfectly clear whether Sejanus was betrothed to Livia Julia, or her mother Livilla). In either case, it seems he was still carrying on an affair with Livilla. Sejanus had finally married into the imperial household and had also been named joint consul with Tiberius in 31. He must have believed the empire was within his grasp.
But then, at the peak of his power, Antonia, sister-in-law of Tiberius, evidently found a document revealing his plot to overthrow the aging emperor. Antonia happily showed it to the emperor. In response, Tiberius cunningly offered Sejanus' occupation to one of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sertorius Macro, if he would have Sejanus arrested. Sejanus was finally executed on the 18th of October, 31 A.D.. Sejanus’ partisans and family were arrested and executed one by one. Statues of Sejanus were destroyed and his name and portraits around the city and the empire defaced. When his first wife, Apicata, was arrested, and when about to die she revealed that Sejanus and Livilla had murdered the emperor’s son, Drusus.
The coins of Sejanus did not have his portrait on them but instead had him named as joint consul with Tiberius in 31. Many of these coins are defaced in a damnatio memoriae. Unfortunately his coins are extremely rare. Only 19 are known, though we are bound to find others.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Drew Cardinale (My Latin teacher!)
COINAGE and HISTORY of the ROMAN EMPIRE, by David L. Vagi, Vol. I
St Mary, Kettlebaston, Suffolk
I always look forward to coming back to Kettlebaston. It is likely that anyone who knows the churches of Suffolk well will have Kettlebaston among their favourites. The setting is delectable, in the remote Suffolk hills between Hadleigh and Stowmarket. The building is at once elegant and interesting, the interior stunning, but most fascinating of all, perhaps, is the story behind the way it is today.
In 1963, in the thirty-third year of his incumbency as Rector of the parish of Kettlebaston, Father Harold Clear Butler sent a letter to a friend. "You are right,"he wrote. "There is no congregation any more." In failing health, he relied on the family of a vicar who had retired nearby to carry out the ceremonies of Easter week that year. In 1964, Father Butler himself retired, and an extraordinary episode in the history of the Anglo-Catholic movement in Suffolk came to an end.
There may have been no congregation, but St Mary at Kettlebaston was a shrine, to which people made pilgrimages from all over England. Here was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches, where Father Butler said the Roman Mass every day, celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sunday, dispensed with churchwardens, flouted the authority of the Anglican diocese by tearing down state notices put up in the porch, refused to keep registers, and even, as an extreme, ignored the office of the local Archdeacon of Sudbury. An entry from the otherwise empty registers for October 2nd 1933 reads Visitation of Archdeacon of Sudbury. Abortive. Archdeacon, finding no churchwardens present, rode off on his High Horse!
Father Butler came to this parish when the Anglo-Catholic movement was at its height, and survived into a poorly old age as it retreated, leaving him high and dry. But not for one moment did he ever compromise.
Kettlebaston church is not just remote liturgically. You set off from the vicinity of Hadleigh, finding your way to the back of beyond at Brent Eleigh - and then beyond the back of beyond, up the winding roads that climb into the hills above Preston. Somewhere here, two narrow lanes head north. One will take you to Thorpe Morieux, and one to Kettlebaston, but I can never be sure which is which, or even if they are always in the same place. Finding your way to this, one of the most remote of all Suffolk villages, can be like finding your way into Narnia. Once in the village, you find the church surrounded by a high yew hedge, through which a passage conducts a path into the graveyard. On a buttress, a statue of the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven sits behind a grill. It is a copy of an alabaster found under the floorboards during the 1860s restoration. The original is now in the British Museum.
One Anglo-catholic tradition that has not been lost here is that the church should always be open, always be welcoming. You enter through the small porch, perhaps not fully prepared for the wonders that await. The nave you step into is light, clean and well-cared for. There is no coloured glass, no heavy benches, no tiles. The brick floor and simple wooden chairs seem as one with the air, a perfect foil for the rugged Norman font on its elegant legs. And then, the surprise of the rich view to the east, for the fixtures and fittings of the 20th Century Anglo-Catholic tradition survive here in all their splendour.
The two major features are the rood screen and the high altar. The rood screen is the work of several people, having been added to over the years by a roll-call of prominent Anglo-Catholic artists. It was designed by Ernest Geldart in the early 1900s. It was painted by Patrick Osborne in 1949, apart from the figures, which are the work of Enid Chadwick in 1954. They are: St Felix as a bishop holding a candle, St Thomas More in regalia, St Thomas of Canterbury with a sword through his mitre, St John Fisher as a bishop holding a book, St Alban in armour and St Fursey holding Burgh Castle.
To one side, the Sacred Heart altar bears the original stone mensa from the high altar. The table itself is the Stuart Communion table. To the other, a Lady altar. All of these are either gifts or rescued from redundant Anglo-Catholic churches elsewhere. The elegant grill in front of the rood loft stairs is by Ninian Comper.
Stepping through into the chancel is a reminder of how the clearance of clutter can improve a liturgical space. Here, the emptiness provides a perfect foil for the massive altar piece. The altar itself was the gift of Miss Eleanor Featonby Smith, consecrated by the Bishop of Madagascar in 1956, in one of those ceremonies conducted in the labyrinthine underworld of the Anglo-catholic movement. The altar sports what is colloquially referred to as the Big Six - the trademark six candlesticks of an Anglo-catholic parish. Behind them, the rich reredos is also by Ernest Geldart, and was also painted by Patrick Osborne.
At the west end of the nave is a display case holding facsimiles of the Kettlebaston alabasters, an oddly prosaic moment. But Kettlebaston's medieval past is not entirely rebooted, for the chancel was sensitively restored by Ernest Geldart in 1902 with none of the razzmatazz of his church at Little Braxted in Essex. The east window was rebuilt to the same design as the original, as was the roof. The late 13th Century piscina and sedilia are preserved, and on the north side of the chancel survives an impressive tomb recess of about the same date.
The sole memorial is to Joan, Lady Jermyn, who died in 1649. Her inscription, at the End of the English Civil War and the start of the ill-fated Commonwealth, is a fascinating example of the language of the time. Is it puritan in sympathy, or Anglican? Or simply a bizarre fruit of the ferment of ideas in that World Turned Upside Down? Within this dormitory lyes interred ye corpps of Johan Lady Jermy it begins, and continues whose arke after a passage of 87 yeares long through this deluge of teares... rested upon ye mount of joye. And then the verse:
Sleepe sweetly, Saint. Since thou wert gone
ther's not the least aspertion
to rake thine asshes: no defame
to veyle the lustre of thy name.
Like odorous tapers thy best sent
remains after extinguishment.
Stirr not these sacred asshes, let them rest
till union make both soule & body blest.
Above, the roofs drip with hanging paraffin lamps, the walls have their candle brackets, for this little church still has no electricity. You sense the attraction of Benediction on a late winter afternoon.
St Mary is loved and cared for by those who worship in it. There are rather more of them than in Father Butler's final days, but they are still a tiny, remote community. Since 1964, they have been part of a wider benefice, and must toe the Anglican mainstream line, as at Lound. But also, as at Lound, the relics of the Anglo-Catholic heyday here are preserved lovingly, and, judging by the visitors book, it is not just the regular worshippers who love it, for Anglo-Catholics from all over England still treat it as a goal of pilgrimage. I remember sitting in this church on a bright spring afternoon some twenty years ago. I'd been sitting for a while in near-silence, which was suddenly broken by the clunk of the door latch. Two elderly ladies came in. They smiled, genuflected towards the east, and greeted me. Together, they went to the Sacred Heart altar, put a bunch of violets in a vase on it, and knelt before it. The silence continued, now with a counterpoint of birdsong from the churchyard through the open door. Then they stood, made the sign of the cross, and went out again. Father Butler looked on and smiled, I'm sure.
Desaparecidos (Conor Oberst & Landon Hedges) @ the Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA. August 31st, 2012.
You all know I've shot Conor a LOT over the years but tonight was super special because Desaparecidos reunited & played their first show in LA in about 10 years. Two years ago I flew to Omaha to shoot their reunion show & it was amazing having them do a mini tour (& they're releasing new material, too!). Be sure to catch their set at FYF Fest this Sunday @ 7:55.
I'll put more photos up from this show I'm sure it'll just have to be after FYF.
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The hit reality TV show Jersey Shore starring
Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick
Jenni "JWoww" Farley
Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola
Vinny Guadagnino
Prior to the show adding cast member
Deena Nicole Cortese
was filmed at The Metropole Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach Miami, The rooms at the hotel were reconstructed so that all the cast members could be "living" together and the common hot tub was private to them. After the show became a hit and all of the cast members went on to mainstream popularity the Metropole Hotel was planning on leaving the rooms set up suite style and cash in on the notoriety with a hefty $2,000 a night to rent to "Jersey Shore Suite" ... after careful thinking The Metropole realized the popularity of the show was with a demographic that could not afford $2,000 a night for a hotel room one block off of Ocean Drive and the rooms were returned to individual status and the private hot tub area was returned to common area status, even though The Metropole Hotel has been changed forever by reality show television.
The Jersey Shore season two filmed at
The Metropole Hotel Apartments
635 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 672-0009
11-30-2010
As part of Stephen Mills’ Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project, Ballet Austin hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at the LBJ Presidential Library.
National leaders including Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, Oni Blair, executive director of ACLU Texas, and award-winning choreographer Stephen Mills, Ballet Austin’s Sarah & Ernest Butler Family Fund Artistic Director and creator of Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project, discussed antisemitism and the role of disinformation and propaganda in dividing communities. Mark Updegrove, president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation, moderated the discussion.
LBJ Library photo by Jay Godwin
03/08/23
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
One of the things being online has given me, is an appreciation of the wonders that surrounded me as I was growing up, but was ignorant of. Such a shame then that I only get to see bits and pieces when we go back to visit my Mother, of like this weekend, when I returned home for a school reunion.
Fritton is a small village on the A143 between Yarmouth and Beccles, and we used to go as we liked the local pub, The Decoy. It was run by an ex-RAF dentist, Eric. Nice bloke, hope he and his wife are still OK.
Looking through my friend's website on Suffolk churches last week, I came across the entry for Fritton, and I was intrigued: so, the first stop out of Lowestoft was Fritton.
Set down a quiet country lane, a simple round-towered church, but then like so many churches, the exterior does not hint at the delights and wonders inside.
I thought the round chancel similar to Wissington, but inside the chancel is revealed as Norman and many-arched. But let Simon describe it:
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Norfolk now has two Frittons, but this one used to be in Suffolk. Here we are out in the wilds of the Lothingland Peninsula, and in 1974 the border was moved a few miles south so that Great Yarmouth's dreary suburbia could all be taken into Norfolk. Unfortunately for Suffolk, the new border line was taken down to Fritton Lakes, putting this little jewel of a church and its pretty village into the northern county.
Perhaps it was compensation of a kind for also having to take on the awful town of Hopton to the east. In this case, Suffolk's loss was very much Norfolk's gain, for this is that rare thing in East Anglia, a Norman church with an apse. They are thin on the ground in the region, and the three best are now all within a few miles on the same side of the border. Hales and Heckingham are on the far bank of the Waveney; St Edmund is similarly round-towered and thatched, and if it is not quite as pretty as its two cousins, it is at least as interesting, and perhaps even more of a treasure house than they are.
There is a little trapdoor on the south side of the chancel, the purpose of which is not immediately clear. Inevitably in this traditionally lawless area not far from the sea, it has become known as the Smugglers' Loft. The churches of this area are all in the Norwich Diocese, even the Suffolk ones, and while the churches near to Yarmouth and Lowestoft have a reputation for being kept locked, Fritton St Edmund is, thankfully, open everyday, and you step into a pleasantly Victorianised rustic interior. The view to the east is unusual, with the little, low chancel hemmed in up one corner behind a screen which doesn't really seem to fit, and the royal arms high above on top of the eastern wall of the 14th Century rebuilt nave. When the nave was widened, the original north wall was retained and the other wall rebuilt about three metres further south, thus the curious juxtaposition between nave and chancel. In the splay of a window on this south side the rebuilders painted an image of a Saint, possibly St John the Baptist holding an agnus dei, while on the north wall opposite the south doorway is a massive St Christopher of about the same date. Otherwise, the nave is rather austere, the recut square font at the west end lending a note of gravitas.
This plainness and simplicity offset the fabulous jewel-like interior of the chancel, which you step down into as if into a quite different church. It is a remarkable survival. The tunnel-vaulting is an extraordinary thing to find. The trapdoor outside lets into the space above it, but more interestingly vaulting of this kind is often associated with there having been a tower above. Not only the vaulting of the apse has survived, but in 1967 a sequence of wall-paintings depicting the martyrdom of St Edmund were uncovered in the eastern end of the apse. It is one of the most complete sequences of the subject in England. The Saint himself appears crowned and shot through with arrows in the central panel, and other panels depict Danish bowmen, possibly St Peter and a donor. There is a little panel of Victorian glass depicting St Edmund at the centre, a happy accident because they could not have known about the wall paintings.
The chancel windows are furnished with some excellent early 20th century glass depicting a sequence of East Anglian Saints. They include St Walstan, St Olaf, St William of Norwich, St Felix, Fursey, St Wendreda, St Etheldreda and the more international seafaring Saint, St Nicholas. It is a perfect setting for them.
The screen has obviously been restored, perhaps more than once, but it almost certainly dates from the time that the nave was widened. There is said to be another which is almost identical, only better, in the now-closed church at Belton a few miles off, where it awaits an uncertain fate. No such fears here; I compared St Edmund with the churches of Hales and Heckingham near the start of this piece, but it is worth adding that this is the only one of those three apsed Norman churches which has not been declared redundant, and is still home to an Anglican faith community.
Arthur Mee, in his 1940s Kings England: Suffolk, waxes so lyrically about Fritton that you might be forgiven for thinking that he is actually writing a spoof, or a parody of himself. Here is heart's delight, he begins, for painter, poet and naturalist; great waters, spreading woodland, nursery of multitudes of water-fowl, and nightingales which sing in chorus the livelong day and night of their minstrel season. Mee also recalls the inconsequential but fascinating detail from the registers that on the 17th day of August 1816, Hannah Freeman did penance in the church for defaming the character of Mary Hanham, spinster. There is a good story behind that, no doubt.
Today, most visitors to this parish are here on holiday, because around the great Fritton Lake, which is the longest in East Anglia, spreads Fritton Country Park and its associated camping sites. Part of the lake is Fritton Decoy, a long, narrow stretch into which ducks were attracted to be shot in their hundreds by 19th century worthies. There is something pleasingly old-fashioned about the setting, as if the Famous Five might even now be in a tent nearby, awaiting an adventure.
Simon Knott, July 2008
Tiberius, Æ28, Bilbilis, Spain, TI CAESAR DIVI AVGVSTI F AVGVSTVS Laureate head of Tiberius right / MVN AVGVSTA BILBILIS TI CAESARE V L AELIO SEIANO around wreath containing COS.
Lucius Aelius Sejanus came from an up-and-coming equestrian family. Early in his career, Sejanus served with Augustus' grandson Gaius in the east, and may have accompanied Drusus Caesar north to quell the mutinies that broke out upon Augustus' death. Initially he had been his father's colleague as praefectus praetorio, but when Strabo was promoted to the more prestigious post of praefectus Aegypti, Sejanus retained sole command of the Guard, a post which, according to later historians, he used to his advantage. Consolidating the Praetorians in a permanent encampment at the eastern edge of the city, he used the Guard to increase his power and influence over Tiberius. In AD 23, upon the death of Drusus Caesar, Sejanus proposed marrying Drusus' widow Livilla, with whom he was allegedly having an affair. So indispensable had he become in maintaining order in the capital that Tiberius called him "the partner of my labors," a position that Sejanus carefully built upon following the emperor's retirement to Capri in AD 26. Using the emperor's absence to his advantage, Sejanus imprisoned Germanicus' widow, Agrippina Senior, her sons Nero and Drusus Caesars, and their supporters on charges of treason. In AD 31 Sejanus served as consul with Tiberius – the first step, he hoped, to acquiring tribunician power and becoming the imperial heir. At the height of this power, however, Tiberius, made aware of Sejanus’ machinations, condemned his consular colleague in a letter to the Senate. Harsh reprisals against Sejanus and his adherents followed, including the removal of his name from public monuments as well as this coin type.
Praetorian Prefect from 23-31 A.D., Sejanus received extraordinary power and trust from the emperor Tiberius. While in self-imposed exile on Capri, Tiberius entrusted Sejanus with the almost complete control of imperial affairs. But Sejanus betrayed that trust by continuously scheming to gain the throne, even poisoning Tiberius' son. Tiberius eventually discovered the truth about his "partner" and ended his ambition and his life in 31 A.D.
Sejanus started his career with his father as prefect (head) of the praetorian guard under Tiberius in the year 14 A.D. When his father was re-appointed as prefect of Egypt, Sejanus inherited the job as sole head of the praetorian guard in 23 A.D.. In his eight-year career Sejanus would unleash an infamous hell on the city of Rome.
In 19 A.D. Germanicus, Tiberius heir apparent, died under suspicious circumstances. Most likely, Tiberius had him poisoned because he believed Germanicus' popularity was a threat to his rule. It was also suspected that Tiberius had had Germanicus killed for the popular general’s wasting of the Imperial treasury for a fleet of 1,000 ships which he failed to use. Sejanus was assigned to kill Germanicus' sons, but was only partially successful. Gaius, better known as "Caligula" (little boot), one of Germanicus' sons that survived, later became emperor. Six other children with Caligula escaped with there lives from Antioch, where the elimination of Germanicus and his family were supposed to occur.
Sejanus, according to Suetonius, was not particularly liked by Tiberius, however, in a speech to the Senate the emperor referred to him as "the partner of my labors." As time went on, Tiberius trusted Sejanus more and more. Meanwhile, Sejanus was gathering power for himself and eliminating all his potential rivals to the throne.
During an argument with Drusus, Drusus simply came over to Sejanus and socked him out of rage. After this Sejanus and Drusus were finding themselves often in conflict. Sejanus even began an affair with Drusus' wife, Livilla. As their affair became more involved, their fear of discovery grew. Sejanus even had two illegitimate children (Tiberius and Germanicus Gemellus) with Livilla. Ancient sources tell us most people thought they were sons of Drusus, but that even Tiberius was skeptical. Sejanus and Livilla planned and eventually gave Drusus a slow acting poison that killed him on the 14th of September, 23 A.D. Sejanus had eliminated his greatest contender for power.
Also in 23 A.D. Sejanus, with the consent of Tiberius, gathered all nine praetorian cohorts which were spread all over Italy at the time, and put them into one barracks inside the capitol. This arrangement would continue for the next 450 years.
Though Sejanus’s mother was very distinguished, and his father very successful, he was still from an equestrian family and considered of "low birth." In the year 20 (according to Tacitus), to get an imperial marriage into his own family, Sejanus had his daughter betrothed to Claudius Drusus, the eldest son of Claudius. Only a few days before the ceremony was to occur, however, Claudius Drusus choked on a pear and died. Sejanus then had his sister, Aelia Paetina, married to Claudius (who was not yet emperor) himself. But none of these efforts brought Sejanus any closer to the throne. In 25 Sejanus requested Tiberius' approval to marry Livilla but to the prefect’s dismay the emperor denied it due to his low birth.
In 27 Tiberius self-imposed his own exile (or semi-retirement) to Capri for the rest of his life, and left Sejanus as his agent to carry out his orders. Tiberius lived on the resort island of Capri for the rest of his years while all hell broke loose in the eternal city. In the Year 29, Tiberius’s mother, Livia, died. Without her watching, Sejanus increasingly felt free to conduct his devious work without the risk of being caught.
For a long time the populace had written graffiti "Rendite nos Germanicum!", or in English "Give us back Germanicus," all over the city. Germanicus' wife, Agrippina, had lead riots against Tiberius for eliminating the beloved Germanicus. Tiberius’s popularity and PR was going down the drain, so to speak. Tiberius had a dupondius struck for Agrippina with the personification IVSTITIA, or Justice (alluding to her search for it). When this did not appease her, Sejanus and Tiberius accused her of having an affair with Ascinius Gallus, a man who had aspired to the throne since Augustus’s reign. The emperor and Sejanus finally defamed her and had Agrippina and her eldest son Nero Caesar arrested. She was so severely punished that she lost an eye in one of the many floggings she received from a centurion. In 29 she was banished, along with Nero Caesar, to the island of Pandataria where in 30 or 31 both were starved to death. Evidently, Pandataria was the island of exile for Agrippina’s mother, Julia, after she had committed promiscuity.
In the year 31 Sejanus' schemes grew bolder and he conspired to overthrow the emperor himself. After Nero Caesar's death Sejanus was betrothed to his wife Livia Julia (although, it is not perfectly clear whether Sejanus was betrothed to Livia Julia, or her mother Livilla). In either case, it seems he was still carrying on an affair with Livilla. Sejanus had finally married into the imperial household and had also been named joint consul with Tiberius in 31. He must have believed the empire was within his grasp.
But then, at the peak of his power, Antonia, sister-in-law of Tiberius, evidently found a document revealing his plot to overthrow the aging emperor. Antonia happily showed it to the emperor. In response, Tiberius cunningly offered Sejanus' occupation to one of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sertorius Macro, if he would have Sejanus arrested. Sejanus was finally executed on the 18th of October, 31 A.D.. Sejanus’ partisans and family were arrested and executed one by one. Statues of Sejanus were destroyed and his name and portraits around the city and the empire defaced. When his first wife, Apicata, was arrested, and when about to die she revealed that Sejanus and Livilla had murdered the emperor’s son, Drusus.
The coins of Sejanus did not have his portrait on them but instead had him named as joint consul with Tiberius in 31. Many of these coins are defaced in a damnatio memoriae. Unfortunately his coins are extremely rare. Only 19 are known, though we are bound to find others.
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Drew Cardinale (My Latin teacher!)
COINAGE and HISTORY of the ROMAN EMPIRE, by David L. Vagi, Vol. I
There was never any doubt I would go to Rob's funeral. Rob was born just two weeks before me, and in our many meetings, we found we had so much in common.
A drive to Ipswich should be something like only two and a half hours, but with the Dartford Crossing that could balloon to four or more.
My choice was to leave early, soon after Jools left for work, or wait to near nine once rush hour was over. If I was up early, I'd leave early, I said.
Which is what happened.
So, after coffee and Jools leaving, I loaded my camera stuff in the car, not bothering to program in a destination, as I knew the route to Suffolk so well.
Checking the internet I found the M2 was closed, so that meant taking the M20, which I like as it runs beside HS2, although over the years, vegetation growth now hides most of it, and with Eurostar cutting services due to Brexit, you're lucky to see a train on the line now.
I had a phone loaded with podcasts, so time flew by, even if travelling through the endless roadworks at 50mph seemed to take forever.
Dartford was jammed. But we inched forward, until as the bridge came in sight, traffic moved smoothly, and I followed the traffic down into the east bore of the tunnel.
Another glorious morning for travel, the sun shone from a clear blue sky, even if traffic was heavy, but I had time, so not pressing on like I usually do, making the drive a pleasant one.
Up through Essex, where most other traffic turned off at Stanstead, then up to the A11 junction, with it being not yet nine, I had several hours to fill before the ceremony.
I stopped at Cambridge services for breakfast, then programmed the first church in: Gazeley, which is just in Suffolk on the border with Cambridgeshire.
I took the next junction off, took two further turnings brought be to the village, which is divided by one of the widest village streets I have ever seen.
It was five past nine: would the church be open?
I parked on the opposite side of the road, grabbed my bag and camera, limped over, passing a warden putting new notices in the parish notice board. We exchange good mornings, and I walk to the porch.
The inner door was unlocked, and the heavy door swung after turning the metal ring handle.
I had made a list of four churches from Simon's list of the top 60 Suffolk churches, picking those on or near my route to Ipswich and which piqued my interest.
Here, it was the reset mediaeval glass.
Needless to say, I had the church to myself, the centuries hanging heavy inside as sunlight flooded in filling the Chancel with warm golden light.
Windows had several devotional dials carved in the surrounding stone, and a huge and "stunningly beautiful piscina, and beside it are sedilia that end in an arm rest carved in the shape of a beast" which caught my eye.
A display in the Chancel was of the decoration of the wooden roof above where panels contained carved beats, some actual and some mythical.
I photographed them all.
I programmed in the next church, a 45 minute drive away just on the outskirts of Ipswich, or so I thought.
The A14 was plagued by roadworks, then most trunk roads and motorways are this time of year, but it was a fine summer morning, I was eating a chocolate bar as I drove, and I wasn't in a hurry.
I turned off at Claydon, and soon lost in a maze of narrow lanes, which brought be to a dog leg in the road, with St Mary nestling in a clearing.
I pulled up, got out and found the air full of birdsong, and was greeted by a friendly spaniel being taken for a walk from the hamlet which the church serves.
There was never any doubt that this would be open, so I went through the fine brick porch, pushed another heavy wooden door and entered the coolness of the church.
I decided to come here for the font, which as you can read below has quite the story: wounded by enemy action no less!
There seems to be a hagioscope (squint) in a window of the south wall, makes one think or an anchorite, but of this there is little evidence.
Samuel and Thomasina Sayer now reside high on the north wall of the Chancel, a stone skull between them, moved here too because of bomb damage in the last war.
I drove a few miles to the next church: Flowton.
Not so much a village as a house on a crossroads. And the church.
Nothing so grand as a formal board outside, just a handwritten sign say "welcome to Flowton church". Again, I had little doubt it would be open.
And it was.
The lychgate still stands, but a fence around the churchyard is good, so serves little practical purpose, other than to be there and hold the signs for the church and forthcoming services.
Inside it is simple: octagonal font with the floor being of brick, so as rustic as can be.
I did read Simon's account (below) when back outside, so went back in to record the tomb of Captain William Boggas and his family, even if part of the stone is hidden by pews now.
I had said to myself, that if I saw signs for another church, I might find time to visit. And so it was with Aldham, I saw the sign pointing down a narrow lane, so I turned and went to investigate.
First it looked like the road ended in a farmyard, but then I saw the flint round tower of the church behind, so followed the lane to the church gate.
There was a large welcoming sign stating, proudly, that the church is always open.
St Mary stands on a mound overlooking a shallow valley, water stand, or runs slowly, in the bottom, and it really is a fine, fine location for a church.
I pushed through the gate and went up the path to the south porch, where the door swung open once again.
The coolness within enveloped me.
An ancient font at the west end was framed by a brick-lined arch, even to my untrained eyes, I knew this was unusual.
There were some carved bench ends, some nice fairly modern glass, but the simplicity of the small church made for a very pleasant whole.
I no longer watch TV much, so was unaware of the view and indeed church being used in the TV show, The Detectorists.
One of Suffolk's hidden treasures, for sure.
I had selected the list of churches to visit from Simon's list of 60 best Suffolk churches, choosing the ones that seemed near to Ipswich.
I had one more on my list, one a little bit out of the way, but I thought I had time, so set off for deepest, darkest Suffolk: Kettlebaston.
The trip took me past my old stamping grounds of Bildeston and Kersey, where I used to take Mum and Dad each Easter once I could drive, but once past Kersey, I still had twenty minutes to go.
Up the hill from Brent Eleigh into Kettlebaston, where the village was more of a dogleg in the road than anything else. I drove through slowly hoping the church would be obvious.
It wasn't.
It was playing hide and seek.
I programmed the church into the sat nav, and followed it back to the village, where beyond a small grassed area was a wall of a mature yew hedge, with the only way through a way so overgrown I had to stoop low to get through.
On the buttress at the south eastern corner of the Chancel, a painted panel showed the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven.
Clearly, this wasn't your normal parish church.
I am an atheist, its just the way I am, so these different "flavours" of Christianity do confuse me somewhat.
Even I knew when I walked in that this was a high church, high in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, with two altars either side of the Chancel Arch, the first such I think I have seen in a parish church.
I post these shots here and on a Churchcrawling website on Facebook, I might skip this one as it will draw lots of comments I think, not all positive.
I guess what saddens me is that they worship the same God, no? Is being right about how to do it that important? When wardens ask me what I think of their church, or should they put a glass door in instead of the ancient wooden currently, I say, it is a living church, your church, changes can be reversed if needed too. But it is your church, you have to live with it, it has to be suitable for all.
Despite all the above, there was much evidence of the ancient church: the font, paintings around a window among other features.
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I always look forward to coming back to Kettlebaston. It is likely that anyone who knows the churches of Suffolk well will have Kettlebaston among their favourites. The setting is delectable, in the remote Suffolk hills between Hadleigh and Stowmarket. The building is at once elegant and interesting, the interior memorable, but most fascinating of all perhaps is the story behind the way it is today.
In 1963, in the thirty-third year of his incumbency as Rector of the parish of Kettlebaston, Father Harold Clear Butler sent a letter to a friend. "You are right,"he wrote. "There is no congregation any more." In failing health, he relied on the family of a vicar who had retired nearby to carry out the ceremonies of Easter week that year. In 1964, Father Butler himself retired, and an extraordinary episode in the history of the Anglo-Catholic movement in Suffolk came to an end.
There may have been no congregation, but St Mary at Kettlebaston was a shrine, to which people made pilgrimages from all over England. Here was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches, where Father Butler said the Roman Mass every day, celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sunday, dispensed with churchwardens, flouted the authority of the Anglican diocese by tearing down state notices put up in the porch, refused to keep registers, and even, as an extreme, ignored the office of the local Archdeacon of Sudbury. An entry from the otherwise empty registers for October 2nd 1933 reads Visitation of Archdeacon of Sudbury. Abortive. Archdeacon, finding no churchwardens present, rode off on his High Horse!
Father Butler came to this parish when the Anglo-Catholic movement was at its height, and survived into a poorly old age as it retreated, leaving him high and dry. But not for one moment did he ever compromise.
Kettlebaston church is not just remote liturgically. You set off from the vicinity of Hadleigh, finding your way to the back of beyond at Brent Eleigh - and then beyond the back of beyond, up the winding roads that climb into the hills above Preston. Somewhere here, two narrow lanes head north. One will take you to Thorpe Morieux, and one to Kettlebaston, but I can never be sure which is which, or even if they are always in the same place. Finding your way to this, one of the most remote of all Suffolk villages, can be like finding your way into Narnia. Once in the village, you find the church surrounded by a high yew hedge, through which a passage conducts a path into the graveyard. On a buttress, a statue of the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven sits behind a grill. It is a copy of an alabaster found under the floorboards during the 1860s restoration. The original is now in the British Museum.
One Anglo-catholic tradition that has not been lost here is that the church should always be open, always be welcoming. You enter through the small porch, perhaps not fully prepared for the wonders that await. The nave you step into is light, clean and well-cared for. There is no coloured glass, no heavy benches, no tiles. The brick floor and simple wooden chairs seem as one with the air, a perfect foil for the rugged late Norman font, and the rich view to the east, for the fixtures and fittings of the 20th Century Anglo-Catholic tradition survive here in all their splendour.
The two major features are the rood screen and the high altar. The rood screen is the work of several people, having been added to over the years by a roll-call of prominent Anglo-Catholic artists. It was designed by Ernest Geldart in the 1880s. It was painted by Patrick Osborne in 1949, apart from the figures, which are the work of Enid Chadwick in 1954. They are: St Felix as a bishop holding a candle, St Thomas More in regalia, St Thomas of Canterbury with a sword through his mitre, St John Fisher as a bishop holding a book, St Alban in armour and St Fursey holding Burgh Castle.
To one side, the Sacred Heart altar bears the original stone mensa from the high altar. The table itself is the Stuart Communion table. To the other, a Lady altar. All of these are either gifts or rescued from redundant Anglo-Catholic churches elsewhere. The elegant grill in front of the rood loft stairs is by Ninian Comper. Stepping through into the chancel is a reminder of how the clearance of clutter can improve a liturgical space. Here, the emptiness provides a perfect foil for the massive altar piece. The altar itself was the gift of Miss Eleanor Featonby Smith, consecrated by the Bishop of Madagascar in 1956, in one of those ceremonies conducted in the labyrinthine underworld of the Anglo-catholic movement. The altar sports what is colloquially referred to as the Big Six - the trademark six candlesticks of an Anglo-catholic parish. Behind them, the rich reredos is also by Ernest Geldart, and was also painted by Patrick Osborne.
At the west end of the nave is a display case holding facsimiles of the Kettlebaston alabasters, an oddly prosaic moment. But Kettlebaston's medieval past is not entirely rebooted, for the chancel was sensitively restored by Ernest Geldart in 1902 with none of the razzmatazz of his church at Little Braxted in Essex. The east window was rebuilt to the same design as the original, as was the roof. The late 13th Century piscina and sedilia are preserved, and on the north side of the chancel survives an impressive tomb recess of about the same date. The sole monument is to Joan, Lady Jermyn, who died in 1649. Her memorial is understated, and its inscription, at the end of the English Civil War and the start of the ill-fated Commonwealth, is a fascinating example of the language of the time. Is it puritan in sympathy, or Anglican? Or simply a bizarre fruit of the ferment of ideas in that World Turned Upside Down? Within this dormitory lyes interred ye corpps of Johan Lady Jermy it begins, and continues whose arke after a passage of 87 yeares long through this deluge of teares... rested upon ye mount of joye. And then the verse:
Sleepe sweetly, Saint. Since thou wert gone
ther's not the least aspertion
to rake thine asshes: no defame
to veyle the lustre of thy name.
Like odorous tapers thy best sent
remains after extinguishment.
Stirr not these sacred asshes, let them rest
till union make both soule & body blest.
Not far off, and from half a century earlier, a rather more cheerful brass inscription remembers that:
The corpse of John Pricks wife lyes heere
The pastor of this place
Fower moneths and one and thirty yeerr
With him she ran her race
And when some eightye yeres were past
Her soule shee did resigne
To her good god in August last
Yeeres thrice five hundredth ninety nine.
And yet, you notice, we never learn her name. Above, the roofs drip with hanging paraffin lamps, the walls have their candle brackets, for this little church still has no electricity. You sense the attraction of Benediction on a late winter afternoon.
St Mary is loved and cared for by those who worship in it. There are rather more of them than in Father Butler's final days, but they are still a tiny, remote community. Since 1964, they have been part of a wider benefice, and must toe the Anglican mainstream line, as at Lound. But also, as at Lound, the relics of the Anglo-Catholic heyday here are preserved lovingly, and, judging by the visitors book, it is not just the regular worshippers who love it, for Anglo-Catholics from all over England still treat it as a goal of pilgrimage. I remember sitting in this church on a bright spring afternoon some twenty years ago. I'd been sitting for a while in near-silence, which was suddenly broken by the clunk of the door latch. Two elderly ladies came in. They smiled, genuflected towards the east, and greeted me. Together, they went to the Sacred Heart altar, put a bunch of violets in a vase on it, and knelt before it. The silence continued, now with a counterpoint of birdsong from the churchyard through the open door. Then they stood, made the sign of the cross, and went out again. Father Butler looked on and smiled, I'm sure.
Simon Knott, October 2018
The Original GLBT Expo Second Annual Video Lounge 2009
The 16th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
***************2009 LINEUP INCLUDED **********************
Saturday
11:00 AM Ani Difranco - Preview of her concert DVD
12:30 Femme Noir - short films of Sweet Baby J'ai celebrating women of color
1:00 Chocolate Seduction by Green Peas TV: A live TV show taping of delicious and decadent chocolate desserts
1:30 Out at the Expo the best in current LGBT Music videos
2:00 The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Interview by Ryan Janek Wolowski including clips of gay representation in media
2:30 Athena Reich - The singer and songwriter introduces her music videos
3:00 Cocktail Seduction by Green Peas TV: A live TV show taping on the art of cocktail making
3:30 Out the Center a volunteer run television program from the NYC LGBT Center
4:00 Main Stage Performers Videos and Interviews with the Expo performers by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV networks
4:30 Queer Horror - videos of the best in queer Horror 2008
5:00 Videos and Interviews with Main Stage performers by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV networks
6:00 Rockin Out - Hard Rock Music Videos by LGBT artists
Sunday
12:00 Out at the Expo the best in current LGBT Music videos and film
1:00 Chocolate Seduction by Green Peas TV: A live TV show taping of delicious and decadent chocolate desserts
1:30 - "Viva La Musica" hosted by Samara Riviera - NBC Telemundo correspondent dance music diva Vanessa Conde
2:00 - Trans Life hosted by Legendary Gay Activist Randolfe Wicker
2:30- Cocktail Seduction by Green Peas TV: A live TV show taping on the art of cocktail making
3:00 Videos and Interviews with Main Stage performers by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV networks
3:30 Strike A Pose - Video! A showcase of Drag Queen Videos hosted by Lady Clover Honey with guests Sherri Vine, Peppermint, Tina Benez
4:00 Videos and Interviews with Main Stage performers by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV networks
5:00 Out at the Expo the best in current LGBT Music videos
Photo
New York City USA
03-21-2009
The Original GLBT Expo Second Annual Video Lounge 2009
The 16th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
***************2009 LINEUP INCLUDED **********************
Saturday
11:00 AM Ani Difranco - Preview of her concert DVD
12:30 Femme Noir - short films of Sweet Baby J'ai celebrating women of color
1:00 Chocolate Seduction by Green Peas TV: A live TV show taping of delicious and decadent chocolate desserts
1:30 Out at the Expo the best in current LGBT Music videos
2:00 The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Interview by Ryan Janek Wolowski including clips of gay representation in media
2:30 Athena Reich - The singer and songwriter introduces her music videos
3:00 Cocktail Seduction by Green Peas TV: A live TV show taping on the art of cocktail making
3:30 Out the Center a volunteer run television program from the NYC LGBT Center
4:00 Main Stage Performers Videos and Interviews with the Expo performers by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV networks
4:30 Queer Horror - videos of the best in queer Horror 2008
5:00 Videos and Interviews with Main Stage performers by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV networks
6:00 Rockin Out - Hard Rock Music Videos by LGBT artists
Sunday
12:00 Out at the Expo the best in current LGBT Music videos and film
1:00 Chocolate Seduction by Green Peas TV: A live TV show taping of delicious and decadent chocolate desserts
1:30 - "Viva La Musica" hosted by Samara Riviera - NBC Telemundo correspondent dance music diva Vanessa Conde
2:00 - Trans Life hosted by Legendary Gay Activist Randolfe Wicker
2:30- Cocktail Seduction by Green Peas TV: A live TV show taping on the art of cocktail making
3:00 Videos and Interviews with Main Stage performers by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV networks
3:30 Strike A Pose - Video! A showcase of Drag Queen Videos hosted by Lady Clover Honey with guests Sherri Vine, Peppermint, Tina Benez
4:00 Videos and Interviews with Main Stage performers by Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV networks
5:00 Out at the Expo the best in current LGBT Music videos
Photo
New York City USA
03-21-2009
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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Photo
New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
GLAAD, the world's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, honored Robert De Niro, Mariah Carey, and the best in film, television, and journalism at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria New York on Saturday May 14th 2016. Jennifer Lawrence, Aziz Ansari, Connie Britton, Diane Sawyer, Caitlyn Jenner, Tamron Hall, Noah Galvin, Andrew Rannells, Andreja Pejić, and Jason Biggs were among the special guests. Recording artists Alex Newell and Bebe Rexha, as well as the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fun Home performed at the event hosted by Emmy Award-winning actress Laverne Cox. The 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were presented by Delta Air Lines, Hilton, Ketel One Vodka, and Wells Fargo.
GLAAD Media Award recipients announced Saturday in New York. Additional awards were presented in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on April 2.
Excellence in Media Award: Robert De Niro (presented by Jennifer Lawrence)
Ally Award: Mariah Carey (presented by Lee Daniels)
· Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: “Bruce Jenner: The Interview" 20/20 (ABC) [accepted by: Diane Sawyer, Caitlyn Jenner, and David Sloan, senior executive producer]
· Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "Interview with Jim Obergefell" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN) [accepted by: U.S. Supreme Court plaintiff Jim Obergefell]
· Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage: Cosmopolitan [accepted by: Laura Brounstein, special projects director]
· Outstanding Film – Limited Release: Tangerine (Magnolia Pictures)
· Outstanding Individual Episode: "The Prince of Nucleotides" Royal Pains (USA Network)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: "Stopping HIV? The Truvada Revolution" Vice Reports (Vice.com)
· Outstanding Newspaper Article: "Cold Case: The Murders of Cosby and Jackson" by Dianna Wray (Houston Press)
· Outstanding Magazine Article: "Behind Brazil's Gay Pride Parades, a Struggle with Homophobic Violence" by Oscar Lopez (Newsweek)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism Article: "This Is What It’s Like To Be An LGBT Syrian Fleeing For Your Life" by J. Lester Feder (Buzzfeed.com)
SPANISH-LANGUAGE NOMINEES
· Outstanding Daytime Program Episode: "¿El marido de mi padre o yo?" Caso Cerrado (Telemundo)
· Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: TIE: "Amor que rompe barreras" Un Nuevo Día (Telemundo) and "En cuerpo ajeno" Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
· Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "Víctimas de abusos" Noticiero Univision (Univision)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: "Campeones de la igualdad" (Univision.com)
GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is a U.S. non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people in the media.
Motto - to promote understanding, increase acceptance, and advance equality.
Founded - 1985
Founder
Vito Russo
Jewelle Gomez
Lauren Hinds
GLAAD 2016 President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis
GLAAD
104 W 29th St #4,
New York, NY 10001
USA
(212) 629-3322
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
301 Park Ave,
New York, NY 10022
USA
(212) 355-3000
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May 14th 2016
The hit reality TV show Jersey Shore starring
Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick
Jenni "JWoww" Farley
Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola
Vinny Guadagnino
Prior to the show adding cast member
Deena Nicole Cortese
was filmed at The Metropole Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach Miami, The rooms at the hotel were reconstructed so that all the cast members could be "living" together and the common hot tub was private to them. After the show became a hit and all of the cast members went on to mainstream popularity the Metropole Hotel was planning on leaving the rooms set up suite style and cash in on the notoriety with a hefty $2,000 a night to rent to "Jersey Shore Suite" ... after careful thinking The Metropole realized the popularity of the show was with a demographic that could not afford $2,000 a night for a hotel room one block off of Ocean Drive and the rooms were returned to individual status and the private hot tub area was returned to common area status, even though The Metropole Hotel has been changed forever by reality show television.
The Jersey Shore season two filmed at
The Metropole Hotel Apartments
635 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 672-0009
11-30-2010
This Cambodian youth has just lost a leg and his eyesight. Taken at the Handicap International Rehabilitation Center. Khoa-I-Dang Cambodian Refugee Transit Camp. Prachin Buri, Thailand.
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The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
**********************************************************
Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
***********
Photo
New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
**********************************************************
Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
One of the things being online has given me, is an appreciation of the wonders that surrounded me as I was growing up, but was ignorant of. Such a shame then that I only get to see bits and pieces when we go back to visit my Mother, of like this weekend, when I returned home for a school reunion.
Fritton is a small village on the A143 between Yarmouth and Beccles, and we used to go as we liked the local pub, The Decoy. It was run by an ex-RAF dentist, Eric. Nice bloke, hope he and his wife are still OK.
Looking through my friend's website on Suffolk churches last week, I came across the entry for Fritton, and I was intrigued: so, the first stop out of Lowestoft was Fritton.
Set down a quiet country lane, a simple round-towered church, but then like so many churches, the exterior does not hint at the delights and wonders inside.
I thought the round chancel similar to Wissington, but inside the chancel is revealed as Norman and many-arched. But let Simon describe it:
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Norfolk now has two Frittons, but this one used to be in Suffolk. Here we are out in the wilds of the Lothingland Peninsula, and in 1974 the border was moved a few miles south so that Great Yarmouth's dreary suburbia could all be taken into Norfolk. Unfortunately for Suffolk, the new border line was taken down to Fritton Lakes, putting this little jewel of a church and its pretty village into the northern county.
Perhaps it was compensation of a kind for also having to take on the awful town of Hopton to the east. In this case, Suffolk's loss was very much Norfolk's gain, for this is that rare thing in East Anglia, a Norman church with an apse. They are thin on the ground in the region, and the three best are now all within a few miles on the same side of the border. Hales and Heckingham are on the far bank of the Waveney; St Edmund is similarly round-towered and thatched, and if it is not quite as pretty as its two cousins, it is at least as interesting, and perhaps even more of a treasure house than they are.
There is a little trapdoor on the south side of the chancel, the purpose of which is not immediately clear. Inevitably in this traditionally lawless area not far from the sea, it has become known as the Smugglers' Loft. The churches of this area are all in the Norwich Diocese, even the Suffolk ones, and while the churches near to Yarmouth and Lowestoft have a reputation for being kept locked, Fritton St Edmund is, thankfully, open everyday, and you step into a pleasantly Victorianised rustic interior. The view to the east is unusual, with the little, low chancel hemmed in up one corner behind a screen which doesn't really seem to fit, and the royal arms high above on top of the eastern wall of the 14th Century rebuilt nave. When the nave was widened, the original north wall was retained and the other wall rebuilt about three metres further south, thus the curious juxtaposition between nave and chancel. In the splay of a window on this south side the rebuilders painted an image of a Saint, possibly St John the Baptist holding an agnus dei, while on the north wall opposite the south doorway is a massive St Christopher of about the same date. Otherwise, the nave is rather austere, the recut square font at the west end lending a note of gravitas.
This plainness and simplicity offset the fabulous jewel-like interior of the chancel, which you step down into as if into a quite different church. It is a remarkable survival. The tunnel-vaulting is an extraordinary thing to find. The trapdoor outside lets into the space above it, but more interestingly vaulting of this kind is often associated with there having been a tower above. Not only the vaulting of the apse has survived, but in 1967 a sequence of wall-paintings depicting the martyrdom of St Edmund were uncovered in the eastern end of the apse. It is one of the most complete sequences of the subject in England. The Saint himself appears crowned and shot through with arrows in the central panel, and other panels depict Danish bowmen, possibly St Peter and a donor. There is a little panel of Victorian glass depicting St Edmund at the centre, a happy accident because they could not have known about the wall paintings.
The chancel windows are furnished with some excellent early 20th century glass depicting a sequence of East Anglian Saints. They include St Walstan, St Olaf, St William of Norwich, St Felix, Fursey, St Wendreda, St Etheldreda and the more international seafaring Saint, St Nicholas. It is a perfect setting for them.
The screen has obviously been restored, perhaps more than once, but it almost certainly dates from the time that the nave was widened. There is said to be another which is almost identical, only better, in the now-closed church at Belton a few miles off, where it awaits an uncertain fate. No such fears here; I compared St Edmund with the churches of Hales and Heckingham near the start of this piece, but it is worth adding that this is the only one of those three apsed Norman churches which has not been declared redundant, and is still home to an Anglican faith community.
Arthur Mee, in his 1940s Kings England: Suffolk, waxes so lyrically about Fritton that you might be forgiven for thinking that he is actually writing a spoof, or a parody of himself. Here is heart's delight, he begins, for painter, poet and naturalist; great waters, spreading woodland, nursery of multitudes of water-fowl, and nightingales which sing in chorus the livelong day and night of their minstrel season. Mee also recalls the inconsequential but fascinating detail from the registers that on the 17th day of August 1816, Hannah Freeman did penance in the church for defaming the character of Mary Hanham, spinster. There is a good story behind that, no doubt.
Today, most visitors to this parish are here on holiday, because around the great Fritton Lake, which is the longest in East Anglia, spreads Fritton Country Park and its associated camping sites. Part of the lake is Fritton Decoy, a long, narrow stretch into which ducks were attracted to be shot in their hundreds by 19th century worthies. There is something pleasingly old-fashioned about the setting, as if the Famous Five might even now be in a tent nearby, awaiting an adventure.
Simon Knott, July 2008
The hit reality TV show Jersey Shore starring
Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick
Jenni "JWoww" Farley
Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola
Vinny Guadagnino
Prior to the show adding cast member
Deena Nicole Cortese
was filmed at The Metropole Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach Miami, The rooms at the hotel were reconstructed so that all the cast members could be "living" together and the common hot tub was private to them. After the show became a hit and all of the cast members went on to mainstream popularity the Metropole Hotel was planning on leaving the rooms set up suite style and cash in on the notoriety with a hefty $2,000 a night to rent to "Jersey Shore Suite" ... after careful thinking The Metropole realized the popularity of the show was with a demographic that could not afford $2,000 a night for a hotel room one block off of Ocean Drive and the rooms were returned to individual status and the private hot tub area was returned to common area status, even though The Metropole Hotel has been changed forever by reality show television.
The Jersey Shore season two filmed at
The Metropole Hotel Apartments
635 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 672-0009
11-30-2010
St Mary, Kettlebaston, Suffolk
I always look forward to coming back to Kettlebaston. It is likely that anyone who knows the churches of Suffolk well will have Kettlebaston among their favourites. The setting is delectable, in the remote Suffolk hills between Hadleigh and Stowmarket. The building is at once elegant and interesting, the interior stunning, but most fascinating of all, perhaps, is the story behind the way it is today.
In 1963, in the thirty-third year of his incumbency as Rector of the parish of Kettlebaston, Father Harold Clear Butler sent a letter to a friend. "You are right,"he wrote. "There is no congregation any more." In failing health, he relied on the family of a vicar who had retired nearby to carry out the ceremonies of Easter week that year. In 1964, Father Butler himself retired, and an extraordinary episode in the history of the Anglo-Catholic movement in Suffolk came to an end.
There may have been no congregation, but St Mary at Kettlebaston was a shrine, to which people made pilgrimages from all over England. Here was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches, where Father Butler said the Roman Mass every day, celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sunday, dispensed with churchwardens, flouted the authority of the Anglican diocese by tearing down state notices put up in the porch, refused to keep registers, and even, as an extreme, ignored the office of the local Archdeacon of Sudbury. An entry from the otherwise empty registers for October 2nd 1933 reads Visitation of Archdeacon of Sudbury. Abortive. Archdeacon, finding no churchwardens present, rode off on his High Horse!
Father Butler came to this parish when the Anglo-Catholic movement was at its height, and survived into a poorly old age as it retreated, leaving him high and dry. But not for one moment did he ever compromise.
Kettlebaston church is not just remote liturgically. You set off from the vicinity of Hadleigh, finding your way to the back of beyond at Brent Eleigh - and then beyond the back of beyond, up the winding roads that climb into the hills above Preston. Somewhere here, two narrow lanes head north. One will take you to Thorpe Morieux, and one to Kettlebaston, but I can never be sure which is which, or even if they are always in the same place. Finding your way to this, one of the most remote of all Suffolk villages, can be like finding your way into Narnia. Once in the village, you find the church surrounded by a high yew hedge, through which a passage conducts a path into the graveyard. On a buttress, a statue of the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven sits behind a grill. It is a copy of an alabaster found under the floorboards during the 1860s restoration. The original is now in the British Museum.
One Anglo-catholic tradition that has not been lost here is that the church should always be open, always be welcoming. You enter through the small porch, perhaps not fully prepared for the wonders that await. The nave you step into is light, clean and well-cared for. There is no coloured glass, no heavy benches, no tiles. The brick floor and simple wooden chairs seem as one with the air, a perfect foil for the rugged Norman font on its elegant legs. And then, the surprise of the rich view to the east, for the fixtures and fittings of the 20th Century Anglo-Catholic tradition survive here in all their splendour.
The two major features are the rood screen and the high altar. The rood screen is the work of several people, having been added to over the years by a roll-call of prominent Anglo-Catholic artists. It was designed by Ernest Geldart in the early 1900s. It was painted by Patrick Osborne in 1949, apart from the figures, which are the work of Enid Chadwick in 1954. They are: St Felix as a bishop holding a candle, St Thomas More in regalia, St Thomas of Canterbury with a sword through his mitre, St John Fisher as a bishop holding a book, St Alban in armour and St Fursey holding Burgh Castle.
To one side, the Sacred Heart altar bears the original stone mensa from the high altar. The table itself is the Stuart Communion table. To the other, a Lady altar. All of these are either gifts or rescued from redundant Anglo-Catholic churches elsewhere. The elegant grill in front of the rood loft stairs is by Ninian Comper.
Stepping through into the chancel is a reminder of how the clearance of clutter can improve a liturgical space. Here, the emptiness provides a perfect foil for the massive altar piece. The altar itself was the gift of Miss Eleanor Featonby Smith, consecrated by the Bishop of Madagascar in 1956, in one of those ceremonies conducted in the labyrinthine underworld of the Anglo-catholic movement. The altar sports what is colloquially referred to as the Big Six - the trademark six candlesticks of an Anglo-catholic parish. Behind them, the rich reredos is also by Ernest Geldart, and was also painted by Patrick Osborne.
At the west end of the nave is a display case holding facsimiles of the Kettlebaston alabasters, an oddly prosaic moment. But Kettlebaston's medieval past is not entirely rebooted, for the chancel was sensitively restored by Ernest Geldart in 1902 with none of the razzmatazz of his church at Little Braxted in Essex. The east window was rebuilt to the same design as the original, as was the roof. The late 13th Century piscina and sedilia are preserved, and on the north side of the chancel survives an impressive tomb recess of about the same date.
The sole memorial is to Joan, Lady Jermyn, who died in 1649. Her inscription, at the End of the English Civil War and the start of the ill-fated Commonwealth, is a fascinating example of the language of the time. Is it puritan in sympathy, or Anglican? Or simply a bizarre fruit of the ferment of ideas in that World Turned Upside Down? Within this dormitory lyes interred ye corpps of Johan Lady Jermy it begins, and continues whose arke after a passage of 87 yeares long through this deluge of teares... rested upon ye mount of joye. And then the verse:
Sleepe sweetly, Saint. Since thou wert gone
ther's not the least aspertion
to rake thine asshes: no defame
to veyle the lustre of thy name.
Like odorous tapers thy best sent
remains after extinguishment.
Stirr not these sacred asshes, let them rest
till union make both soule & body blest.
Above, the roofs drip with hanging paraffin lamps, the walls have their candle brackets, for this little church still has no electricity. You sense the attraction of Benediction on a late winter afternoon.
St Mary is loved and cared for by those who worship in it. There are rather more of them than in Father Butler's final days, but they are still a tiny, remote community. Since 1964, they have been part of a wider benefice, and must toe the Anglican mainstream line, as at Lound. But also, as at Lound, the relics of the Anglo-Catholic heyday here are preserved lovingly, and, judging by the visitors book, it is not just the regular worshippers who love it, for Anglo-Catholics from all over England still treat it as a goal of pilgrimage. I remember sitting in this church on a bright spring afternoon some twenty years ago. I'd been sitting for a while in near-silence, which was suddenly broken by the clunk of the door latch. Two elderly ladies came in. They smiled, genuflected towards the east, and greeted me. Together, they went to the Sacred Heart altar, put a bunch of violets in a vase on it, and knelt before it. The silence continued, now with a counterpoint of birdsong from the churchyard through the open door. Then they stood, made the sign of the cross, and went out again. Father Butler looked on and smiled, I'm sure.
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
**********************************************************
Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
Essay: “Coulter Defames American War Heroes” at wp.me/p4jHFp-81.
Donald Trump’s recent ludicrous attack on John McCain’s war record may prove fatal to his candidacy for President. Nevertheless, he refuses to apologize for his ill-time gaffe. And polemicist Ann Coulter – known for her many gaffes and refusals to apologize – defends Trump.
Beginning in 1997, Coulter established a pattern of defaming American war heroes and veterans, especially if they were not conservative enough for her. In addition to McCain, Coulter has defamed paralyzed Vietnam veteran, Bobby Muller; triple-amputee Max Cleland; decorated Vietnam veteran General Wesley Clark; and Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient John Murtha.
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
**********************************************************
Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The hit reality TV show Jersey Shore starring
Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick
Jenni "JWoww" Farley
Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola
Vinny Guadagnino
Prior to the show adding cast member
Deena Nicole Cortese
was filmed at The Metropole Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach Miami, The rooms at the hotel were reconstructed so that all the cast members could be "living" together and the common hot tub was private to them. After the show became a hit and all of the cast members went on to mainstream popularity the Metropole Hotel was planning on leaving the rooms set up suite style and cash in on the notoriety with a hefty $2,000 a night to rent to "Jersey Shore Suite" ... after careful thinking The Metropole realized the popularity of the show was with a demographic that could not afford $2,000 a night for a hotel room one block off of Ocean Drive and the rooms were returned to individual status and the private hot tub area was returned to common area status, even though The Metropole Hotel has been changed forever by reality show television.
The Jersey Shore season two filmed at
The Metropole Hotel Apartments
635 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 672-0009
11-30-2010
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
**********************************************************
Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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New York City USA
03-20-2010
03-21-2010
The GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
GLAAD, the world's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, honored Robert De Niro, Mariah Carey, and the best in film, television, and journalism at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria New York on Saturday May 14th 2016. Jennifer Lawrence, Aziz Ansari, Connie Britton, Diane Sawyer, Caitlyn Jenner, Tamron Hall, Noah Galvin, Andrew Rannells, Andreja Pejić, and Jason Biggs were among the special guests. Recording artists Alex Newell and Bebe Rexha, as well as the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fun Home performed at the event hosted by Emmy Award-winning actress Laverne Cox. The 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were presented by Delta Air Lines, Hilton, Ketel One Vodka, and Wells Fargo.
GLAAD Media Award recipients announced Saturday in New York. Additional awards were presented in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on April 2.
Excellence in Media Award: Robert De Niro (presented by Jennifer Lawrence)
Ally Award: Mariah Carey (presented by Lee Daniels)
· Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: “Bruce Jenner: The Interview" 20/20 (ABC) [accepted by: Diane Sawyer, Caitlyn Jenner, and David Sloan, senior executive producer]
· Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "Interview with Jim Obergefell" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN) [accepted by: U.S. Supreme Court plaintiff Jim Obergefell]
· Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage: Cosmopolitan [accepted by: Laura Brounstein, special projects director]
· Outstanding Film – Limited Release: Tangerine (Magnolia Pictures)
· Outstanding Individual Episode: "The Prince of Nucleotides" Royal Pains (USA Network)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: "Stopping HIV? The Truvada Revolution" Vice Reports (Vice.com)
· Outstanding Newspaper Article: "Cold Case: The Murders of Cosby and Jackson" by Dianna Wray (Houston Press)
· Outstanding Magazine Article: "Behind Brazil's Gay Pride Parades, a Struggle with Homophobic Violence" by Oscar Lopez (Newsweek)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism Article: "This Is What It’s Like To Be An LGBT Syrian Fleeing For Your Life" by J. Lester Feder (Buzzfeed.com)
SPANISH-LANGUAGE NOMINEES
· Outstanding Daytime Program Episode: "¿El marido de mi padre o yo?" Caso Cerrado (Telemundo)
· Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: TIE: "Amor que rompe barreras" Un Nuevo Día (Telemundo) and "En cuerpo ajeno" Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
· Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "Víctimas de abusos" Noticiero Univision (Univision)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: "Campeones de la igualdad" (Univision.com)
GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is a U.S. non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people in the media.
Motto - to promote understanding, increase acceptance, and advance equality.
Founded - 1985
Founder
Vito Russo
Jewelle Gomez
Lauren Hinds
GLAAD 2016 President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis
GLAAD
104 W 29th St #4,
New York, NY 10001
USA
(212) 629-3322
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
301 Park Ave,
New York, NY 10022
USA
(212) 355-3000
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May 14th 2016
The hit reality TV show Jersey Shore starring
Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick
Jenni "JWoww" Farley
Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola
Vinny Guadagnino
Prior to the show adding cast member
Deena Nicole Cortese
was filmed at The Metropole Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach Miami, The rooms at the hotel were reconstructed so that all the cast members could be "living" together and the common hot tub was private to them. After the show became a hit and all of the cast members went on to mainstream popularity the Metropole Hotel was planning on leaving the rooms set up suite style and cash in on the notoriety with a hefty $2,000 a night to rent to "Jersey Shore Suite" ... after careful thinking The Metropole realized the popularity of the show was with a demographic that could not afford $2,000 a night for a hotel room one block off of Ocean Drive and the rooms were returned to individual status and the private hot tub area was returned to common area status, even though The Metropole Hotel has been changed forever by reality show television.
The Jersey Shore season two filmed at
The Metropole Hotel Apartments
635 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 672-0009
11-30-2010
‘Very brave’: Actress charged with insulting Thai royals by writing two words
Coconuts Bangkok - Dec 21, 2020
An actress and protest supporter facing 15 years in prison found out today that she has been charged with insulting the royal family over two words – “very brave.”
After spending the past week perplexed by a vague police summons, Inthira “Sai” Charoenpura today appeared to formally hear the charges, where police told her they stemmed from writing those words online in a “sarcastic” social media post that went viral in the pro-democracy movement..
“Facebook user Inthira Charoenpura posted a picture that had text mocking the monarchy. It featured the words ‘I may not go back to loving you,’ ‘you are very brave,’ and ‘because everybody’s eyes are widely opened,’” read the charges, which she posted online. “The word ‘very brave’ was said by King Rama X to admirers at a royal event, and to repeat the word in a mocking tone defames his dignity.”
Inthira, who will turn 40 on Wednesday, made her response to the charges known immediately in a caption to the post:
“I may not go back to loving you,” she wrote, repeating one of the phrases. The visible portion of the document did not specify more information about the post in question.
In October, “very brave” took off as a catch-phrase among activists after King Vajiralongkorn used those words to thank a royalist supporter for confronting protesters at a march.
“Very brave, very brave, very good, very good, thank you,” the king said Oct. 23 to Thitiwat Tanagaroon after the queen told him that Thitiwat had held a portrait of his much-loved father, King Rama IX, among protesters three days earlier.
As of today, more than 30 people have been charged in recent weeks with lese majeste, including a 16-year-old boy. Use of the law had lapsed since King Vajiralongkorn came to power – it was used widely in the twilight of his father’s reign despite the late king’s stated opposition to it – but has been enjoying a comeback amid rising criticism of the monarchy.
Charges of lese majeste, as the royal insult law is known, can be filed by anyone against anyone, and the authorities are obligated to investigate. The complaint against Inthira was filed by deputy Bang Khen district police chief Anan Wonrasat.
Inthira, best known for playing a lead role in last decade’s King Naresuan film franchise, has become one of few high-profile figures to openly support the ongoing pro-democracy movement. She’s provided material support including food, toilets and other donations for the rallies which re-emerged in June.
She went to hear the charge this morning at the Bang Khen Police Station accompanied by pro-democracy activists and leaders including lawyer Arnon Nampa and Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak.
SPAIN, Bilbilis. Tiberius. 14-27 AD. Aelius Seianus, magistrate. Laureate head right / COS in wreath. RPC I 398; Burgos 196. Many of these rare coins have Sejanus' name obliterated, Sejanus having suffered damnatio memoriae after his overthrow and death later in the year 31 AD.
Date Unknown
Source www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/sejanus/i.html
Author Tiberius
Praetorian Prefect from 23-31 A.D., Sejanus received extraordinary power and trust from the emperor Tiberius. While in self-imposed exile on Capri, Tiberius entrusted Sejanus with the almost complete control of imperial affairs. But Sejanus betrayed that trust by continuously scheming to gain the throne, even poisoning Tiberius' son. Tiberius eventually discovered the truth about his "partner" and ended his ambition and his life in 31 A.D.
Sejanus started his career with his father as prefect (head) of the praetorian guard under Tiberius in the year 14 A.D. When his father was re-appointed as prefect of Egypt, Sejanus inherited the job as sole head of the praetorian guard in 23 A.D.. In his eight-year career Sejanus would unleash an infamous hell on the city of Rome.
In 19 A.D. Germanicus, Tiberius heir apparent, died under suspicious circumstances. Most likely, Tiberius had him poisoned because he believed Germanicus' popularity was a threat to his rule. It was also suspected that Tiberius had had Germanicus killed for the popular general’s wasting of the Imperial treasury for a fleet of 1,000 ships which he failed to use. Sejanus was assigned to kill Germanicus' sons, but was only partially successful. Gaius, better known as "Caligula" (little boot), one of Germanicus' sons that survived, later became emperor. Six other children with Caligula escaped with there lives from Antioch, where the elimination of Germanicus and his family were supposed to occur.
Sejanus, according to Suetonius, was not particularly liked by Tiberius, however, in a speech to the Senate the emperor referred to him as "the partner of my labors." As time went on, Tiberius trusted Sejanus more and more. Meanwhile, Sejanus was gathering power for himself and eliminating all his potential rivals to the throne.
During an argument with Drusus, Drusus simply came over to Sejanus and socked him out of rage. After this Sejanus and Drusus were finding themselves often in conflict. Sejanus even began an affair with Drusus' wife, Livilla. As their affair became more involved, their fear of discovery grew. Sejanus even had two illegitimate children (Tiberius and Germanicus Gemellus) with Livilla. Ancient sources tell us most people thought they were sons of Drusus, but that even Tiberius was skeptical. Sejanus and Livilla planned and eventually gave Drusus a slow acting poison that killed him on the 14th of September, 23 A.D. Sejanus had eliminated his greatest contender for power.
Also in 23 A.D. Sejanus, with the consent of Tiberius, gathered all nine praetorian cohorts which were spread all over Italy at the time, and put them into one barracks inside the capitol. This arrangement would continue for the next 450 years.
Though Sejanus’s mother was very distinguished, and his father very successful, he was still from an equestrian family and considered of "low birth." In the year 20 (according to Tacitus), to get an imperial marriage into his own family, Sejanus had his daughter betrothed to Claudius Drusus, the eldest son of Claudius. Only a few days before the ceremony was to occur, however, Claudius Drusus choked on a pear and died. Sejanus then had his sister, Aelia Paetina, married to Claudius (who was not yet emperor) himself. But none of these efforts brought Sejanus any closer to the throne. In 25 Sejanus requested Tiberius' approval to marry Livilla but to the prefect’s dismay the emperor denied it due to his low birth.
In 27 Tiberius self-imposed his own exile (or semi-retirement) to Capri for the rest of his life, and left Sejanus as his agent to carry out his orders. Tiberius lived on the resort island of Capri for the rest of his years while all hell broke loose in the eternal city. In the Year 29, Tiberius’s mother, Livia, died. Without her watching, Sejanus increasingly felt free to conduct his devious work without the risk of being caught.
For a long time the populace had written graffiti "Rendite nos Germanicum!", or in English "Give us back Germanicus," all over the city. Germanicus' wife, Agrippina, had lead riots against Tiberius for eliminating the beloved Germanicus. Tiberius’s popularity and PR was going down the drain, so to speak. Tiberius had a dupondius struck for Agrippina with the personification IVSTITIA, or Justice (alluding to her search for it). When this did not appease her, Sejanus and Tiberius accused her of having an affair with Ascinius Gallus, a man who had aspired to the throne since Augustus’s reign. The emperor and Sejanus finally defamed her and had Agrippina and her eldest son Nero Caesar arrested. She was so severely punished that she lost an eye in one of the many floggings she received from a centurion. In 29 she was banished, along with Nero Caesar, to the island of Pandataria where in 30 or 31 both were starved to death. Evidently, Pandataria was the island of exile for Agrippina’s mother, Julia, after she had committed promiscuity.
In the year 31 Sejanus' schemes grew bolder and he conspired to overthrow the emperor himself. After Nero Caesar's death Sejanus was betrothed to his wife Livia Julia (although, it is not perfectly clear whether Sejanus was betrothed to Livia Julia, or her mother Livilla). In either case, it seems he was still carrying on an affair with Livilla. Sejanus had finally married into the imperial household and had also been named joint consul with Tiberius in 31. He must have believed the empire was within his grasp.
But then, at the peak of his power, Antonia, sister-in-law of Tiberius, evidently found a document revealing his plot to overthrow the aging emperor. Antonia happily showed it to the emperor. In response, Tiberius cunningly offered Sejanus' occupation to one of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sertorius Macro, if he would have Sejanus arrested. Sejanus was finally executed on the 18th of October, 31 A.D.. Sejanus’ partisans and family were arrested and executed one by one. Statues of Sejanus were destroyed and his name and portraits around the city and the empire defaced. When his first wife, Apicata, was arrested, and when about to die she revealed that Sejanus and Livilla had murdered the emperor’s son, Drusus.
The coins of Sejanus did not have his portrait on them but instead had him named as joint consul with Tiberius in 31. Many of these coins are defaced in a damnatio memoriae. Unfortunately his coins are extremely rare. Only 19 are known, though we are bound to find others.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Drew Cardinale (My Latin teacher!)
COINAGE and HISTORY of the ROMAN EMPIRE, by David L. Vagi, Vol. I
St Mary, Kettlebaston, Suffolk
I always look forward to coming back to Kettlebaston. It is likely that anyone who knows the churches of Suffolk well will have Kettlebaston among their favourites. The setting is delectable, in the remote Suffolk hills between Hadleigh and Stowmarket. The building is at once elegant and interesting, the interior stunning, but most fascinating of all, perhaps, is the story behind the way it is today.
In 1963, in the thirty-third year of his incumbency as Rector of the parish of Kettlebaston, Father Harold Clear Butler sent a letter to a friend. "You are right,"he wrote. "There is no congregation any more." In failing health, he relied on the family of a vicar who had retired nearby to carry out the ceremonies of Easter week that year. In 1964, Father Butler himself retired, and an extraordinary episode in the history of the Anglo-Catholic movement in Suffolk came to an end.
There may have been no congregation, but St Mary at Kettlebaston was a shrine, to which people made pilgrimages from all over England. Here was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches, where Father Butler said the Roman Mass every day, celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sunday, dispensed with churchwardens, flouted the authority of the Anglican diocese by tearing down state notices put up in the porch, refused to keep registers, and even, as an extreme, ignored the office of the local Archdeacon of Sudbury. An entry from the otherwise empty registers for October 2nd 1933 reads Visitation of Archdeacon of Sudbury. Abortive. Archdeacon, finding no churchwardens present, rode off on his High Horse!
Father Butler came to this parish when the Anglo-Catholic movement was at its height, and survived into a poorly old age as it retreated, leaving him high and dry. But not for one moment did he ever compromise.
Kettlebaston church is not just remote liturgically. You set off from the vicinity of Hadleigh, finding your way to the back of beyond at Brent Eleigh - and then beyond the back of beyond, up the winding roads that climb into the hills above Preston. Somewhere here, two narrow lanes head north. One will take you to Thorpe Morieux, and one to Kettlebaston, but I can never be sure which is which, or even if they are always in the same place. Finding your way to this, one of the most remote of all Suffolk villages, can be like finding your way into Narnia. Once in the village, you find the church surrounded by a high yew hedge, through which a passage conducts a path into the graveyard. On a buttress, a statue of the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven sits behind a grill. It is a copy of an alabaster found under the floorboards during the 1860s restoration. The original is now in the British Museum.
One Anglo-catholic tradition that has not been lost here is that the church should always be open, always be welcoming. You enter through the small porch, perhaps not fully prepared for the wonders that await. The nave you step into is light, clean and well-cared for. There is no coloured glass, no heavy benches, no tiles. The brick floor and simple wooden chairs seem as one with the air, a perfect foil for the rugged Norman font on its elegant legs. And then, the surprise of the rich view to the east, for the fixtures and fittings of the 20th Century Anglo-Catholic tradition survive here in all their splendour.
The two major features are the rood screen and the high altar. The rood screen is the work of several people, having been added to over the years by a roll-call of prominent Anglo-Catholic artists. It was designed by Ernest Geldart in the early 1900s. It was painted by Patrick Osborne in 1949, apart from the figures, which are the work of Enid Chadwick in 1954. They are: St Felix as a bishop holding a candle, St Thomas More in regalia, St Thomas of Canterbury with a sword through his mitre, St John Fisher as a bishop holding a book, St Alban in armour and St Fursey holding Burgh Castle.
To one side, the Sacred Heart altar bears the original stone mensa from the high altar. The table itself is the Stuart Communion table. To the other, a Lady altar. All of these are either gifts or rescued from redundant Anglo-Catholic churches elsewhere. The elegant grill in front of the rood loft stairs is by Ninian Comper.
Stepping through into the chancel is a reminder of how the clearance of clutter can improve a liturgical space. Here, the emptiness provides a perfect foil for the massive altar piece. The altar itself was the gift of Miss Eleanor Featonby Smith, consecrated by the Bishop of Madagascar in 1956, in one of those ceremonies conducted in the labyrinthine underworld of the Anglo-catholic movement. The altar sports what is colloquially referred to as the Big Six - the trademark six candlesticks of an Anglo-catholic parish. Behind them, the rich reredos is also by Ernest Geldart, and was also painted by Patrick Osborne.
At the west end of the nave is a display case holding facsimiles of the Kettlebaston alabasters, an oddly prosaic moment. But Kettlebaston's medieval past is not entirely rebooted, for the chancel was sensitively restored by Ernest Geldart in 1902 with none of the razzmatazz of his church at Little Braxted in Essex. The east window was rebuilt to the same design as the original, as was the roof. The late 13th Century piscina and sedilia are preserved, and on the north side of the chancel survives an impressive tomb recess of about the same date.
The sole memorial is to Joan, Lady Jermyn, who died in 1649. Her inscription, at the End of the English Civil War and the start of the ill-fated Commonwealth, is a fascinating example of the language of the time. Is it puritan in sympathy, or Anglican? Or simply a bizarre fruit of the ferment of ideas in that World Turned Upside Down? Within this dormitory lyes interred ye corpps of Johan Lady Jermy it begins, and continues whose arke after a passage of 87 yeares long through this deluge of teares... rested upon ye mount of joye. And then the verse:
Sleepe sweetly, Saint. Since thou wert gone
ther's not the least aspertion
to rake thine asshes: no defame
to veyle the lustre of thy name.
Like odorous tapers thy best sent
remains after extinguishment.
Stirr not these sacred asshes, let them rest
till union make both soule & body blest.
Above, the roofs drip with hanging paraffin lamps, the walls have their candle brackets, for this little church still has no electricity. You sense the attraction of Benediction on a late winter afternoon.
St Mary is loved and cared for by those who worship in it. There are rather more of them than in Father Butler's final days, but they are still a tiny, remote community. Since 1964, they have been part of a wider benefice, and must toe the Anglican mainstream line, as at Lound. But also, as at Lound, the relics of the Anglo-Catholic heyday here are preserved lovingly, and, judging by the visitors book, it is not just the regular worshippers who love it, for Anglo-Catholics from all over England still treat it as a goal of pilgrimage. I remember sitting in this church on a bright spring afternoon some twenty years ago. I'd been sitting for a while in near-silence, which was suddenly broken by the clunk of the door latch. Two elderly ladies came in. They smiled, genuflected towards the east, and greeted me. Together, they went to the Sacred Heart altar, put a bunch of violets in a vase on it, and knelt before it. The silence continued, now with a counterpoint of birdsong from the churchyard through the open door. Then they stood, made the sign of the cross, and went out again. Father Butler looked on and smiled, I'm sure.
The cast of Jersey Shore were placed in Mimai Beach right next to the Miami Beach STD Clinic.
Miami Beach STD Clinic
615 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 535-5540
The hit reality TV show Jersey Shore starring
Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick aka "The Staten Island Dump"
Jenni "JWoww" Farley
Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola
Vinny Guadagnino
Prior to the show adding cast member
Deena Nicole Cortese
was filmed at The Metropole Hotel on Collins Avenue in South Beach Miami, The rooms at the hotel were reconstructed so that all the cast members could be "living" together and the common hot tub was private to them. After the show became a hit and all of the cast members went on to mainstream popularity the Metropole Hotel was planning on leaving the rooms set up suite style and cash in on the notoriety with a hefty $2,000 a night to rent to "Jersey Shore Suite" ... after careful thinking The Metropole realized the popularity of the show was with a demographic that could not afford $2,000 a night for a hotel room one block off of Ocean Drive and the rooms were returned to individual status and the private hot tub area was returned to common area status, even though The Metropole Hotel has been changed forever by reality show television.
The Jersey Shore season two filmed at
The Metropole Hotel Apartments
635 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 672-0009
11-30-2010
CVD/C&C manager in the factory.
Cambodian Vision in Development is a local Cambodian NGO which has relied entirely on international funding agencies to continue their projects. CVD are now trialling a clothing factory that trains and employs disabled and disadvantaged young women. Most of the workers suffer from some degree of TB.
Individulas can donate to CVD and start your own Village Self Help project. More info at cambodianvision (dot) com.
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The Original GLBT Expo Third Annual Video Lounge 2010
The 17th Original GLBT Expo
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-2000
*********************2010 LINE UP INCLUDED*****************
Saturday 11:00 – 7:00 PM 2010
...11:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos including Kelly King, Levi Kreis, Rachael Sage,
12:00 George Lyter of ADD-TV music video block
1:00 Fifty years of Queer Cinema by Danforth Prince, of Blood Moon Productions
1:30 LGBT Historic Video – rare footage of NYC GLBT History curated by Randolfe Wicker
2:00 CampBlood.org's House of Horrors - Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join the sickos behind the biggest gay horror movie site around.
2:30 David Kittredge, writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2 45 Rob Williams director of “Make the Yuletide Gay,” "Three-Day Weekend," and "Long Term Relationship"
3:00 George Lyter music video director and creator of ADD-TV with showcase Art and Activism w/guest speakers.
3:30 CampBlood.org's Slumber Party Massacre Join the nutsos behind the biggest gay horror movie website and their special guests for a slumber party with a serious body count. Bloodshed, beefcake and giveaways are just a few of the surprises in store at this party.
4:00 Under the Pink Carpet with Lovari - Meet the on air personalities from the gay-themed television entertainment news series that airs on WNYE / WNYC TV Channel 25, incl special guest Singer Lovari
4:30 Yozmit a special guest exposing Transgender discrimination in the job market. Yozmit has been in The Daily News, The New York Times and generating alot of press as she is part of the group that has filed a complaint with the state attorney general's office having proved city's human rights law were violated citing J. Crew as one of the offenders. Yozmit is also a performance artists and we will celebrate her work at the expo.
www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/14/2010-03-14_report_say...
4:45 Lavender Hip Hop, with Soce the Elemental Wizard and Chic & Sassy America's Top Drag Queen rappers
5:00 Ryan Janek Wolowski of MTV Networks interviews Main Stage Performers
6:00 - 7:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Vanessa Conde, Beth Sacks, Neon Glitter Bliss, Salme Dahlstrom, amberRose Marie
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Sunday 12-6 2010
12:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl, Jason Antone, Brian Kent, LaVonna Harris, Noa Tylo
1:00 Appolonia Cruz from Fruta Extrana TV which is now FX GAY TV
1:15 Khalid Rivera recording artist who went to #1 Music Video on Logo’s Click List
1:30 GLAAD The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation special guest Anu Singh
1:45 Samara Riviera from Vivalariviera.com has been seen on ABC and Telemundo Television, Samara has also produced footage for A&E Television Networks Biography series and has written for both Latino Boys and Adelante Magazine. Special guest will be Sahara Davenport from season two of RuPaul's Drag Race as seen on the MTV Networks channel Logo Television.
2:00 Rob Williams director of the award winning “Make the Yuletide Gay” now out on DVD
2:15 David Kittredge writer and director of the controversial thriller; "Pornography: A Thriller", opening at the Cinema Village on April 16
2:30 Lady Gaga - Live from The National Equality March
3:30 Ryan Janek Wolowski presents "Fatima's First Lady" comedy short starring R. Sky Palkowitz The Delusional Diva.
4:00 - 6:00 Best in LGBT and our friends Music Videos incl Lori Michaels, Athena Reich, Jamisin Lee (dancer), Peppermint, Josh Zuckerman, and interviews with main stage performers.
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03-20-2010
03-21-2010
One of the things being online has given me, is an appreciation of the wonders that surrounded me as I was growing up, but was ignorant of. Such a shame then that I only get to see bits and pieces when we go back to visit my Mother, of like this weekend, when I returned home for a school reunion.
Fritton is a small village on the A143 between Yarmouth and Beccles, and we used to go as we liked the local pub, The Decoy. It was run by an ex-RAF dentist, Eric. Nice bloke, hope he and his wife are still OK.
Looking through my friend's website on Suffolk churches last week, I came across the entry for Fritton, and I was intrigued: so, the first stop out of Lowestoft was Fritton.
Set down a quiet country lane, a simple round-towered church, but then like so many churches, the exterior does not hint at the delights and wonders inside.
I thought the round chancel similar to Wissington, but inside the chancel is revealed as Norman and many-arched. But let Simon describe it:
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Norfolk now has two Frittons, but this one used to be in Suffolk. Here we are out in the wilds of the Lothingland Peninsula, and in 1974 the border was moved a few miles south so that Great Yarmouth's dreary suburbia could all be taken into Norfolk. Unfortunately for Suffolk, the new border line was taken down to Fritton Lakes, putting this little jewel of a church and its pretty village into the northern county.
Perhaps it was compensation of a kind for also having to take on the awful town of Hopton to the east. In this case, Suffolk's loss was very much Norfolk's gain, for this is that rare thing in East Anglia, a Norman church with an apse. They are thin on the ground in the region, and the three best are now all within a few miles on the same side of the border. Hales and Heckingham are on the far bank of the Waveney; St Edmund is similarly round-towered and thatched, and if it is not quite as pretty as its two cousins, it is at least as interesting, and perhaps even more of a treasure house than they are.
There is a little trapdoor on the south side of the chancel, the purpose of which is not immediately clear. Inevitably in this traditionally lawless area not far from the sea, it has become known as the Smugglers' Loft. The churches of this area are all in the Norwich Diocese, even the Suffolk ones, and while the churches near to Yarmouth and Lowestoft have a reputation for being kept locked, Fritton St Edmund is, thankfully, open everyday, and you step into a pleasantly Victorianised rustic interior. The view to the east is unusual, with the little, low chancel hemmed in up one corner behind a screen which doesn't really seem to fit, and the royal arms high above on top of the eastern wall of the 14th Century rebuilt nave. When the nave was widened, the original north wall was retained and the other wall rebuilt about three metres further south, thus the curious juxtaposition between nave and chancel. In the splay of a window on this south side the rebuilders painted an image of a Saint, possibly St John the Baptist holding an agnus dei, while on the north wall opposite the south doorway is a massive St Christopher of about the same date. Otherwise, the nave is rather austere, the recut square font at the west end lending a note of gravitas.
This plainness and simplicity offset the fabulous jewel-like interior of the chancel, which you step down into as if into a quite different church. It is a remarkable survival. The tunnel-vaulting is an extraordinary thing to find. The trapdoor outside lets into the space above it, but more interestingly vaulting of this kind is often associated with there having been a tower above. Not only the vaulting of the apse has survived, but in 1967 a sequence of wall-paintings depicting the martyrdom of St Edmund were uncovered in the eastern end of the apse. It is one of the most complete sequences of the subject in England. The Saint himself appears crowned and shot through with arrows in the central panel, and other panels depict Danish bowmen, possibly St Peter and a donor. There is a little panel of Victorian glass depicting St Edmund at the centre, a happy accident because they could not have known about the wall paintings.
The chancel windows are furnished with some excellent early 20th century glass depicting a sequence of East Anglian Saints. They include St Walstan, St Olaf, St William of Norwich, St Felix, Fursey, St Wendreda, St Etheldreda and the more international seafaring Saint, St Nicholas. It is a perfect setting for them.
The screen has obviously been restored, perhaps more than once, but it almost certainly dates from the time that the nave was widened. There is said to be another which is almost identical, only better, in the now-closed church at Belton a few miles off, where it awaits an uncertain fate. No such fears here; I compared St Edmund with the churches of Hales and Heckingham near the start of this piece, but it is worth adding that this is the only one of those three apsed Norman churches which has not been declared redundant, and is still home to an Anglican faith community.
Arthur Mee, in his 1940s Kings England: Suffolk, waxes so lyrically about Fritton that you might be forgiven for thinking that he is actually writing a spoof, or a parody of himself. Here is heart's delight, he begins, for painter, poet and naturalist; great waters, spreading woodland, nursery of multitudes of water-fowl, and nightingales which sing in chorus the livelong day and night of their minstrel season. Mee also recalls the inconsequential but fascinating detail from the registers that on the 17th day of August 1816, Hannah Freeman did penance in the church for defaming the character of Mary Hanham, spinster. There is a good story behind that, no doubt.
Today, most visitors to this parish are here on holiday, because around the great Fritton Lake, which is the longest in East Anglia, spreads Fritton Country Park and its associated camping sites. Part of the lake is Fritton Decoy, a long, narrow stretch into which ducks were attracted to be shot in their hundreds by 19th century worthies. There is something pleasingly old-fashioned about the setting, as if the Famous Five might even now be in a tent nearby, awaiting an adventure.
Simon Knott, July 2008
St Mary, Kettlebaston, Suffolk
I always look forward to coming back to Kettlebaston. It is likely that anyone who knows the churches of Suffolk well will have Kettlebaston among their favourites. The setting is delectable, in the remote Suffolk hills between Hadleigh and Stowmarket. The building is at once elegant and interesting, the interior stunning, but most fascinating of all, perhaps, is the story behind the way it is today.
In 1963, in the thirty-third year of his incumbency as Rector of the parish of Kettlebaston, Father Harold Clear Butler sent a letter to a friend. "You are right,"he wrote. "There is no congregation any more." In failing health, he relied on the family of a vicar who had retired nearby to carry out the ceremonies of Easter week that year. In 1964, Father Butler himself retired, and an extraordinary episode in the history of the Anglo-Catholic movement in Suffolk came to an end.
There may have been no congregation, but St Mary at Kettlebaston was a shrine, to which people made pilgrimages from all over England. Here was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches, where Father Butler said the Roman Mass every day, celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sunday, dispensed with churchwardens, flouted the authority of the Anglican diocese by tearing down state notices put up in the porch, refused to keep registers, and even, as an extreme, ignored the office of the local Archdeacon of Sudbury. An entry from the otherwise empty registers for October 2nd 1933 reads Visitation of Archdeacon of Sudbury. Abortive. Archdeacon, finding no churchwardens present, rode off on his High Horse!
Father Butler came to this parish when the Anglo-Catholic movement was at its height, and survived into a poorly old age as it retreated, leaving him high and dry. But not for one moment did he ever compromise.
Kettlebaston church is not just remote liturgically. You set off from the vicinity of Hadleigh, finding your way to the back of beyond at Brent Eleigh - and then beyond the back of beyond, up the winding roads that climb into the hills above Preston. Somewhere here, two narrow lanes head north. One will take you to Thorpe Morieux, and one to Kettlebaston, but I can never be sure which is which, or even if they are always in the same place. Finding your way to this, one of the most remote of all Suffolk villages, can be like finding your way into Narnia. Once in the village, you find the church surrounded by a high yew hedge, through which a passage conducts a path into the graveyard. On a buttress, a statue of the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven sits behind a grill. It is a copy of an alabaster found under the floorboards during the 1860s restoration. The original is now in the British Museum.
One Anglo-catholic tradition that has not been lost here is that the church should always be open, always be welcoming. You enter through the small porch, perhaps not fully prepared for the wonders that await. The nave you step into is light, clean and well-cared for. There is no coloured glass, no heavy benches, no tiles. The brick floor and simple wooden chairs seem as one with the air, a perfect foil for the rugged Norman font on its elegant legs. And then, the surprise of the rich view to the east, for the fixtures and fittings of the 20th Century Anglo-Catholic tradition survive here in all their splendour.
The two major features are the rood screen and the high altar. The rood screen is the work of several people, having been added to over the years by a roll-call of prominent Anglo-Catholic artists. It was designed by Ernest Geldart in the early 1900s. It was painted by Patrick Osborne in 1949, apart from the figures, which are the work of Enid Chadwick in 1954. They are: St Felix as a bishop holding a candle, St Thomas More in regalia, St Thomas of Canterbury with a sword through his mitre, St John Fisher as a bishop holding a book, St Alban in armour and St Fursey holding Burgh Castle.
To one side, the Sacred Heart altar bears the original stone mensa from the high altar. The table itself is the Stuart Communion table. To the other, a Lady altar. All of these are either gifts or rescued from redundant Anglo-Catholic churches elsewhere. The elegant grill in front of the rood loft stairs is by Ninian Comper.
Stepping through into the chancel is a reminder of how the clearance of clutter can improve a liturgical space. Here, the emptiness provides a perfect foil for the massive altar piece. The altar itself was the gift of Miss Eleanor Featonby Smith, consecrated by the Bishop of Madagascar in 1956, in one of those ceremonies conducted in the labyrinthine underworld of the Anglo-catholic movement. The altar sports what is colloquially referred to as the Big Six - the trademark six candlesticks of an Anglo-catholic parish. Behind them, the rich reredos is also by Ernest Geldart, and was also painted by Patrick Osborne.
At the west end of the nave is a display case holding facsimiles of the Kettlebaston alabasters, an oddly prosaic moment. But Kettlebaston's medieval past is not entirely rebooted, for the chancel was sensitively restored by Ernest Geldart in 1902 with none of the razzmatazz of his church at Little Braxted in Essex. The east window was rebuilt to the same design as the original, as was the roof. The late 13th Century piscina and sedilia are preserved, and on the north side of the chancel survives an impressive tomb recess of about the same date.
The sole memorial is to Joan, Lady Jermyn, who died in 1649. Her inscription, at the End of the English Civil War and the start of the ill-fated Commonwealth, is a fascinating example of the language of the time. Is it puritan in sympathy, or Anglican? Or simply a bizarre fruit of the ferment of ideas in that World Turned Upside Down? Within this dormitory lyes interred ye corpps of Johan Lady Jermy it begins, and continues whose arke after a passage of 87 yeares long through this deluge of teares... rested upon ye mount of joye. And then the verse:
Sleepe sweetly, Saint. Since thou wert gone
ther's not the least aspertion
to rake thine asshes: no defame
to veyle the lustre of thy name.
Like odorous tapers thy best sent
remains after extinguishment.
Stirr not these sacred asshes, let them rest
till union make both soule & body blest.
Above, the roofs drip with hanging paraffin lamps, the walls have their candle brackets, for this little church still has no electricity. You sense the attraction of Benediction on a late winter afternoon.
St Mary is loved and cared for by those who worship in it. There are rather more of them than in Father Butler's final days, but they are still a tiny, remote community. Since 1964, they have been part of a wider benefice, and must toe the Anglican mainstream line, as at Lound. But also, as at Lound, the relics of the Anglo-Catholic heyday here are preserved lovingly, and, judging by the visitors book, it is not just the regular worshippers who love it, for Anglo-Catholics from all over England still treat it as a goal of pilgrimage. I remember sitting in this church on a bright spring afternoon some twenty years ago. I'd been sitting for a while in near-silence, which was suddenly broken by the clunk of the door latch. Two elderly ladies came in. They smiled, genuflected towards the east, and greeted me. Together, they went to the Sacred Heart altar, put a bunch of violets in a vase on it, and knelt before it. The silence continued, now with a counterpoint of birdsong from the churchyard through the open door. Then they stood, made the sign of the cross, and went out again. Father Butler looked on and smiled, I'm sure.
St Mary, Kettlebaston, Suffolk
I always look forward to coming back to Kettlebaston. It is likely that anyone who knows the churches of Suffolk well will have Kettlebaston among their favourites. The setting is delectable, in the remote Suffolk hills between Hadleigh and Stowmarket. The building is at once elegant and interesting, the interior stunning, but most fascinating of all, perhaps, is the story behind the way it is today.
In 1963, in the thirty-third year of his incumbency as Rector of the parish of Kettlebaston, Father Harold Clear Butler sent a letter to a friend. "You are right,"he wrote. "There is no congregation any more." In failing health, he relied on the family of a vicar who had retired nearby to carry out the ceremonies of Easter week that year. In 1964, Father Butler himself retired, and an extraordinary episode in the history of the Anglo-Catholic movement in Suffolk came to an end.
There may have been no congregation, but St Mary at Kettlebaston was a shrine, to which people made pilgrimages from all over England. Here was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches, where Father Butler said the Roman Mass every day, celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sunday, dispensed with churchwardens, flouted the authority of the Anglican diocese by tearing down state notices put up in the porch, refused to keep registers, and even, as an extreme, ignored the office of the local Archdeacon of Sudbury. An entry from the otherwise empty registers for October 2nd 1933 reads Visitation of Archdeacon of Sudbury. Abortive. Archdeacon, finding no churchwardens present, rode off on his High Horse!
Father Butler came to this parish when the Anglo-Catholic movement was at its height, and survived into a poorly old age as it retreated, leaving him high and dry. But not for one moment did he ever compromise.
Kettlebaston church is not just remote liturgically. You set off from the vicinity of Hadleigh, finding your way to the back of beyond at Brent Eleigh - and then beyond the back of beyond, up the winding roads that climb into the hills above Preston. Somewhere here, two narrow lanes head north. One will take you to Thorpe Morieux, and one to Kettlebaston, but I can never be sure which is which, or even if they are always in the same place. Finding your way to this, one of the most remote of all Suffolk villages, can be like finding your way into Narnia. Once in the village, you find the church surrounded by a high yew hedge, through which a passage conducts a path into the graveyard. On a buttress, a statue of the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven sits behind a grill. It is a copy of an alabaster found under the floorboards during the 1860s restoration. The original is now in the British Museum.
One Anglo-catholic tradition that has not been lost here is that the church should always be open, always be welcoming. You enter through the small porch, perhaps not fully prepared for the wonders that await. The nave you step into is light, clean and well-cared for. There is no coloured glass, no heavy benches, no tiles. The brick floor and simple wooden chairs seem as one with the air, a perfect foil for the rugged Norman font on its elegant legs. And then, the surprise of the rich view to the east, for the fixtures and fittings of the 20th Century Anglo-Catholic tradition survive here in all their splendour.
The two major features are the rood screen and the high altar. The rood screen is the work of several people, having been added to over the years by a roll-call of prominent Anglo-Catholic artists. It was designed by Ernest Geldart in the early 1900s. It was painted by Patrick Osborne in 1949, apart from the figures, which are the work of Enid Chadwick in 1954. They are: St Felix as a bishop holding a candle, St Thomas More in regalia, St Thomas of Canterbury with a sword through his mitre, St John Fisher as a bishop holding a book, St Alban in armour and St Fursey holding Burgh Castle.
To one side, the Sacred Heart altar bears the original stone mensa from the high altar. The table itself is the Stuart Communion table. To the other, a Lady altar. All of these are either gifts or rescued from redundant Anglo-Catholic churches elsewhere. The elegant grill in front of the rood loft stairs is by Ninian Comper.
Stepping through into the chancel is a reminder of how the clearance of clutter can improve a liturgical space. Here, the emptiness provides a perfect foil for the massive altar piece. The altar itself was the gift of Miss Eleanor Featonby Smith, consecrated by the Bishop of Madagascar in 1956, in one of those ceremonies conducted in the labyrinthine underworld of the Anglo-catholic movement. The altar sports what is colloquially referred to as the Big Six - the trademark six candlesticks of an Anglo-catholic parish. Behind them, the rich reredos is also by Ernest Geldart, and was also painted by Patrick Osborne.
At the west end of the nave is a display case holding facsimiles of the Kettlebaston alabasters, an oddly prosaic moment. But Kettlebaston's medieval past is not entirely rebooted, for the chancel was sensitively restored by Ernest Geldart in 1902 with none of the razzmatazz of his church at Little Braxted in Essex. The east window was rebuilt to the same design as the original, as was the roof. The late 13th Century piscina and sedilia are preserved, and on the north side of the chancel survives an impressive tomb recess of about the same date.
The sole memorial is to Joan, Lady Jermyn, who died in 1649. Her inscription, at the End of the English Civil War and the start of the ill-fated Commonwealth, is a fascinating example of the language of the time. Is it puritan in sympathy, or Anglican? Or simply a bizarre fruit of the ferment of ideas in that World Turned Upside Down? Within this dormitory lyes interred ye corpps of Johan Lady Jermy it begins, and continues whose arke after a passage of 87 yeares long through this deluge of teares... rested upon ye mount of joye. And then the verse:
Sleepe sweetly, Saint. Since thou wert gone
ther's not the least aspertion
to rake thine asshes: no defame
to veyle the lustre of thy name.
Like odorous tapers thy best sent
remains after extinguishment.
Stirr not these sacred asshes, let them rest
till union make both soule & body blest.
Above, the roofs drip with hanging paraffin lamps, the walls have their candle brackets, for this little church still has no electricity. You sense the attraction of Benediction on a late winter afternoon.
St Mary is loved and cared for by those who worship in it. There are rather more of them than in Father Butler's final days, but they are still a tiny, remote community. Since 1964, they have been part of a wider benefice, and must toe the Anglican mainstream line, as at Lound. But also, as at Lound, the relics of the Anglo-Catholic heyday here are preserved lovingly, and, judging by the visitors book, it is not just the regular worshippers who love it, for Anglo-Catholics from all over England still treat it as a goal of pilgrimage. I remember sitting in this church on a bright spring afternoon some twenty years ago. I'd been sitting for a while in near-silence, which was suddenly broken by the clunk of the door latch. Two elderly ladies came in. They smiled, genuflected towards the east, and greeted me. Together, they went to the Sacred Heart altar, put a bunch of violets in a vase on it, and knelt before it. The silence continued, now with a counterpoint of birdsong from the churchyard through the open door. Then they stood, made the sign of the cross, and went out again. Father Butler looked on and smiled, I'm sure.
The GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
GLAAD, the world's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, honored Robert De Niro, Mariah Carey, and the best in film, television, and journalism at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria New York on Saturday May 14th 2016. Jennifer Lawrence, Aziz Ansari, Connie Britton, Diane Sawyer, Caitlyn Jenner, Tamron Hall, Noah Galvin, Andrew Rannells, Andreja Pejić, and Jason Biggs were among the special guests. Recording artists Alex Newell and Bebe Rexha, as well as the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fun Home performed at the event hosted by Emmy Award-winning actress Laverne Cox. The 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were presented by Delta Air Lines, Hilton, Ketel One Vodka, and Wells Fargo.
GLAAD Media Award recipients announced Saturday in New York. Additional awards were presented in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on April 2.
Excellence in Media Award: Robert De Niro (presented by Jennifer Lawrence)
Ally Award: Mariah Carey (presented by Lee Daniels)
· Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: “Bruce Jenner: The Interview" 20/20 (ABC) [accepted by: Diane Sawyer, Caitlyn Jenner, and David Sloan, senior executive producer]
· Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "Interview with Jim Obergefell" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN) [accepted by: U.S. Supreme Court plaintiff Jim Obergefell]
· Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage: Cosmopolitan [accepted by: Laura Brounstein, special projects director]
· Outstanding Film – Limited Release: Tangerine (Magnolia Pictures)
· Outstanding Individual Episode: "The Prince of Nucleotides" Royal Pains (USA Network)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: "Stopping HIV? The Truvada Revolution" Vice Reports (Vice.com)
· Outstanding Newspaper Article: "Cold Case: The Murders of Cosby and Jackson" by Dianna Wray (Houston Press)
· Outstanding Magazine Article: "Behind Brazil's Gay Pride Parades, a Struggle with Homophobic Violence" by Oscar Lopez (Newsweek)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism Article: "This Is What It’s Like To Be An LGBT Syrian Fleeing For Your Life" by J. Lester Feder (Buzzfeed.com)
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· Outstanding Daytime Program Episode: "¿El marido de mi padre o yo?" Caso Cerrado (Telemundo)
· Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine: TIE: "Amor que rompe barreras" Un Nuevo Día (Telemundo) and "En cuerpo ajeno" Aquí y Ahora (Univision)
· Outstanding TV Journalism Segment: "Víctimas de abusos" Noticiero Univision (Univision)
· Outstanding Digital Journalism – Multimedia: "Campeones de la igualdad" (Univision.com)
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