Photo by Grace Desanti. The University of Rhode Island’s Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) offers year-round resources for LGBTQIA+ students, faculty and community members in an effort to “spread positivity and enact change” in the community. Omar Laguerre-Lewis, a rising senior who works at the GSC as a receptionist, said that the Center works to…
Pride month is a time to celebrate LGBTQIA+ people; real and fictional. While there has been an increasing amount of representation both on-screen and off-screen in recent years, many LGBTQIA+ characters and storylines have fallen into tropes ranging from “please get this off of my screen, this is setting gay rights back another 50 years”…
Some of the greatest and most influential artists today identify as LGBTQIA+, and in honor of June being Pride month, we’re going to break down some of the best in no particular order. The artist that has arguably had the most modern impact on the LGBTQIA+ community is Lady Gaga. Since first talking publicly about…
With minimal LGBTQIA+ representation in their films, Disney continues to face backlash this Pride month for only using token queer characters rather than spotlighting the community. Over the past five years, Disney has incorporated very few queer moments and characters into their feature length films despite a growing global concern for proper representation. Glimpses of…
The queer community exists in our purest, most joyful form during Pride Month. If you’ve ever been to a pride celebration, or interacted with any queer person ever, then you know what I mean. But, as always, we also exist as consumers. Corporate ‘pride’ has become an overwhelming presence in the last decade. Pride —…
As statewide COVID-19 guidelines begin to change, local theatres are “dusting off the cobwebs” and reopening their doors to bring live theatre back to Rhode Island. Tammy Brown, the artistic director of the Contemporary Theatre Company (CTC) in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, said that they started planning back in February for the return to “normal”…
“I hope there isn’t any racism – subtle racism,” former Celtics’ star Kyrie Irving said during a press conference on his return to Boston as an opponent during the ongoing Nets-Celtics series; and with that, the conversation on racism in the city of Boston was reignited. A couple days after this statement, University of Rhode…