Love Is Love: Leisha Hailey and Camila Gray

A couple of lesbian girls that has a music Group It already shows us that they must be very compatible. Because only with listening to all the problems that the bands usually have internally, it should make everything more complicated if it is your partner. Leisha Hailey and Camila Gray They are also multifaceted: actress, singer, composer ...

Leisha played the role of Alice in the series «The L World"In addition to other appearances in" Grey's Anatomy "or" CSI "and other roles in movies. She had already been in the world of music before her time in acting, with the group The Murmurs. In 2007 he mounted the electropop duo Uh Huh Her with Camila Gray, and was combining her career as an actress and a musician until the series "The L World" ended. Camila, for her part, has always been in music: she was a bassist and keyboardist for Mellowdrone and collaborated with Busta Rhymes, Tricky and Kelly Osbourne among others.

The relationship of Leisha and Camila became known in a very sound and unexpected: at 2011, during a Southwest Airlines flight, both expelled from the plane for kissing. This sample of discrimination so extravagant had much repercussion by the famous position of Leisha, that when explaining it in Twitter soon spread the news and the whole LGBT community world echoed the event. We hope that situations like this will less and less, that two girls who love each other, who work and who live like any other couple should not "force themselves" to make their relationship public for such outrageous reasons. That they can dedicate yourself to music and love yourself naturally as you wish, that Love is Love: Human Nature - Uh Huh Her.

Love Is Love: Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin

They married this year's 2013, at a private ceremony in Los Angeles, after 42 years of relationship. What of Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin is championship. They lead a life together and possibly his wedding has been the most mediatic news about their relationship and homosexuality.

Jane, of 78 years, is writer, director and producer. Among his most famous works is The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, play that Lily starred in and that thanks to its success was also taken to the cinema. Lily, 74, is the actress who has put faces to several Jane characters, in addition to many other films, plays and television shows. It is one of the most famous comedians of the United States. In 1976 was nominated to Oscar for best supporting actress by Nashville Between the two they add a good number of Emmys, Tommys and other prizes of interpretation and script.

Jane and Lily met in March 1971, when the Lily looked for help for a project of its famous personage Edith Ann. Jane helped her with her ideas and inspiration, and from that moment they became inseparable companions at work and in sentimental life. The couple he has never made an official statement to press to announce their relationship. They have always treated their private life with stealth and without echoing their preferences. Even in 1975 the magazine Time offered Lily the cover if she declared herself a lesbian, but this proposal was indignant. However, Jane and Lily are among the most famous lesbian couples and stable from the United States. So much so that the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center used his name for the «Lily Tomlin / Jane Wagner Art Cultural Center«.

Perhaps it is this naturalness with which they have always treated their relationship the key to making it so durable. They have never claimed the 4 winds their homosexuality, and have never denied it. They have simply been treated as what it is: natural.

Love Is Love: Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka

They are handsome, they are famous, they are nice, they are actors, they are singers, they are a couple, they are parents, they are gay ... These guys have it all. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are the fashionable homosexual couple.

Neil is an actor and singer. Plays the famous Barney, the Casanova hetero by definition, the series How I Met Your Mother and also works in Broadway movies and musicals. His talent has earned him two Emmys and several nominations for the Golden Globes. David is also an actor, has worked in Broadway and has made some appearances on television. In 2009 decided to leave the interpretation and now it's Head and runs a catering company.

The rumors of their relationship began precisely as a result of How I Met Your Mother, when David participated with a small role in the series in 2006. It began to spread the story that David had gotten the part because he had a relationship with Neil. Neil came out of the closet publicly that same year, but he did not say anything about David. However in 2007 they went together to the Emmy Awards gala and then officially confirmed their relationship in the program The Ellen ShowThey had been dating since 2004. In 2010 they had Twins (Gideon Scott and Harper Grace) through a surrogate mother and last year they announced that they had wedding plans. Actually they had declared each other several years ago, even wearing engagement rings, but they were waiting for the day when they could do it. Now all the press is pending the date that marks the couple for the wedding.

Because Neil and David are a couple that they waste love and magazine covers. They are active in Twitter e InstagramThey joke with each other on all channels and have a good time. Their offspring They are adorable in all photos and events. They go on holiday with Elton John and David Furnish… In short, they are what every loving family is. Simply that they have the power of visibility. And the naturalness with which they have always tried their combined relationship with this is a great speaker for the Inclusion of the LGBT community in society. Neil and David are pure Love Is Love, so much so that laugh at it.

Educational centers, acceptance or harassment?

We chatted at the «Infamous Types» bookstore in Madrid with José Ignacio Pichardo, professor at the Complutense University and author of the report on «Diversity and coexistence in educational centers». Conclution? There is some improvement, but the discrimination persists.

"Girls from the heap", the gay web series that is sweeping

Fernando Gamero grew up watching Almodóvar's cinema and vindicates it in Chicas del Llano. He talks to us at the Ateneo bar about his series that breathes the freedom and freshness of the first Almodóvar. That universe of glamor and backfire returns like a breath of fresh air.

LGBT, a factor of diversity in the company

LGBT diversity in the company

Margarita Alonso, professor at IE University and specialist in diversity policies in the company, speaks to us of the added value that supposes for the companies to integrate respecting the diversity instead of applying discriminatory criteria.

This March plays play: MiniGayGuess

Spring is coming and in Gayles.tv we begin to alter the blood. We are eager to play and we want to do it with you! That's why this month of March we propose you a game through our page Facebook. A fun and "thinking game": MiniGayGuess.

What does it consist of? MiniGayGuess is a game of observation and research. Every day of the month of March at 9.00 in the morning, we post on the Facebook page of Gayles.tv a childhood photograph of a famous person related to the LGTB community. We want you to tell us who that very young actor, actress, singer, writer, presenter is ... Since we know that there are some characters that are the same today as they were decades ago and that you will guess them very quickly, we make the game a little more interesting: apart from the daily photo, a keyword. Maybe this track helps you discover it faster, or maybe it confuses you more. What we want is that you also tell us what is the reason why that word is related to the character.

Summarizing, for each daily photo hung on Facebook we need a single answer that answers two questions:

- WHO is the character? WHY is the keyword related to the character?

Answer directly in the comments of the Facebook photo. You have until the 9.00 of the night of the same day to answer these two questions. Every night we will publish the correct answers publicly.

Is there a prize? There is a prize. And not just one, but 4! Every Monday in March (starting Monday 10) we count users who have answered correctly during the previous week. Who has more valid answers, win! The more you play the more chances you have of winning a gourmet food pack Delishopun pack of gourmet olive oils Spiritu_Santo, un Pack of 3 wine bottles Herms White or  pack 2 leisure cards Barcelona NightCard. Each week we will inform through Facebook of the details of the weekly gift. Query here the legal bases of the contest.

Do you encourage yourself with MiniGayGuess? The game starts on 1 Saturday in March at 9.00 in the morning. Attentive to our page Facebook 😉

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No Time For Flowers

Ana María Moix, la Nena, as her friends from the "Gauche Divine" were still calling her, has left. Silently and on tiptoe. With the same dignity that he maintained until the end.
Ironic, new, biting, irreducible ... It leaves us much more than an excellent literary work, it gives us the example of a life without closets and without recliners.
There is a red-haired boy looking for her through the streets of the Eixample and Walter wonders why he left. But surely somewhere there is a celestial Bocaccio and there in the bar Terenci, Barral, Gil de Biedma and many others will wait for the last drink, another, and if it tertia dance a waltz blacker than night.
Just a year ago he stated in an interview "Maybe he's old enough to accept that I have to go." Acceptance before resignation.
No time for flowers.

Montse Trillo, content director of Gayles.tv

Goodbye to Leo's "curse"

He died in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Leopoldo María Panero, member of the Panero family, who participated in the famous film The disenchantment, by Jaime Chávarri. Madrileño, poet, transgressor, homosexual… Leopoldo studied Philosophy and Letters, a career he abandoned in the second year in protest against «formal knowledge» and «without connection». Militant of the anti-Francoist left, is the author of most radical poetry of recent times.

Much of his life passed between psychiatric institutions. At the age of 19 his mother, Felicidad Blanc, admitted him to the Hospital Clínico de Madrid with the intention of "Cure" his homosexuality and drug addictionas he had caught his son smoking a hash joint. That led him to marginalization and scandal, eventually entering prison for 4 months for The Law of Vagos and Maligners of 1954, in the times of Franco. The writers Vicente Aleixandre y Carlos Bousoño they testified in his favor at the trial, but their help was of no use. Leopoldo explained the experience: "What happened there I do not want or my worst enemy, although in the end I have a good memory because I threw myself in half prison " .

We hope that the author of This is how Carnaby Street was founded Theory, Heroine and other poems, among others, finally find the peace he lacked in life. We will always remember his writing genius, tender but cruel, exciting and damn:

"Beyond where life still hides, there remains a kingdom, it remains to cultivate as a king its agony, to make flourish like a kingdom the dirty flower of agony: I who prostitute everything, I can still prostitute my death and make me corpse the last poem. "

March 8, a bittersweet party

One more year we celebrate Winners will be announced in March noting the need for continue to work for women's rights and on this occasion with the endorsement that gives us know the data of the recent survey on physical and sexual violence exercised against women in Europe. The study, carried out by the Agency for Fundamental Rights of the European Union, has been drawn up from 42.000 personal interviews with women between 18 and 74 years old.

The results are frankly scary and more so if we take into account that the scope is the European Union. In Gayles.tv we wanted to collect for our followers a small summary of the aforementioned survey.

- 1 in 3 women has suffered physical or sexual abuse (62 million in total).
- 5% of the citizens have been victims of a violation (more than 9 million).
- 12% of those surveyed have suffered an episode of this type before reaching the age of 15.
- 35% recognize abuse, physical or psychological violence as girls.
- 29% claim to have suffered harassment in a work context.
- Only 14% of the victims of attacks report to the police, which means that the majority of violence suffered by women remains hidden and the attackers go unpunished.

In view of these figures, we should ask ourselves, Are we talking about Europe? From advanced societies? Unfortunately, the answer is yes.

While discrimination of of and the collective LGTB have different characteristics, it is not less true that in both cases there is still a long way to go to travel until obtaining the full equal rights. Women and gays suffer the consequences of the conservative offensive that denies all the rights and advances achieved to date.

Unfortunately, there is not much to celebrate, but much to denounce, a lot to fight for.

Montse Trillo, content director of Gayles.tv

Stromae Vs. Maestro

You also danced to the rhythm of Alors On Dance? Stromae He is the singer of this electronic music hit, but he is not an artist with only one song. He has two albums and a few months ago he published the single Tous Les Mêmonthwhere he plays a character with double sex. Taking this song of reference, we do a more detailed analysis of the musician.

Paul Van Haver was born in 1985 in Brussels, in a family of Belgian and Rwandan origins. His father was absent for most of his childhood, dying in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide. His mother raised him in the French suburbs of Brussels. After a few years of studying music, creating his nickname Stromae (anagram of teacher) and first creations inside the rap, in 2009 entered to work like assistant in the Belgian radio NRJ. Vincent Verbelen, music manager at the station, was impressed with the quality of Stromae's first single, Alors On Dance, and did not hesitate to broadcast it on the air. The response of the listeners was such that in a few weeks the song went to number one in Belgium.

Stromae is the representative of More multicultural Europe: immigrant and autochthonous son, tall and thin, with dark skin and light green eyes. Your letters are the poetized reality of young Europeans, the one that deals with the discontent and decadence of a society that struggles to get ahead, which speaks of crisis and unemployment, of absent parents and families in distress. That shows us all the same, like the last song Tous Les Mêmonth (all are the same), playing with that double genre that ends up being identical in the background. And Stromae not only explains stories in his songs, but also broadcasts lesson capsules on his channel. YouTube Dapastudio.

The singer has a full 2014 agenda concerts and festivals around Europe. Full artist which has no problem interpreting a drunk or transvestite, always looking for the best way to show what his music says. His mix of rap, house, dance, hip hop, salsa (and any other style that inspires him) passed through the filter of his point of view is making Stromae a reference for the young generations, and promises to stay.

On the other side of the camera: Annie Leibovitz

Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue have published hundreds of his photographs. It accumulates prizes, compliments and controversies. We talked about Annie Leibovitz, the woman who shared 16 years of her life with Susan Sontag, the living legend of photography.

 

They bark, then we ride.

The news has recently surprised us with what seems to be an obvious homophobic crime or hate. We refer to the recent murder of a young lesbian couple en Port Bolivar, Texas, whose inert bodies were abandoned next to a rubbish dumpster in the early morning of March's 7.

From Gayles.tv we show the utmost respect for an investigation that is still ongoing and that could reveal other motives in this double crime. But what is undeniable is the fact that this type of acts, Unfortunately, they are neither unique nor isolated.

The recognition in June of the 2013 Gay Marriage by the federal government after a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, has provoked the more conservative sectors of American society. The number of states that legalized it in the past year doubles those that existed until then. The far right and the ultraconservatives are stirring restlessly in their cavern. And you know: the impotence generates violence and ignorance too.

Sad toll on the road to equality. But we must not forget that the measure of your anger is that of our achievements. Decidedly, they barked, then we rode.

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Hugs against homophobia

For a few days a video has been circulating on the internet, «First Gay Hug (A homophobic experiment)«, In which 15 individuals are manifestly invited homophobic to embrace a stranger, with the peculiarity that that strange person is gay or lesbian. The result is surprising. It matters little if the dialogues are understood or not, gesture speaks for itself.

At the beginning, the prejudices, the fears, the bewilderment, in short, the "beforehand”, That is, that which in some important sense is independent of experience. Because when we experiment and dialogue, when we listen to the other, when we touch, or simply put ourselves in the place of the other Prejudice and fear merge like snow in the heat of a hug. And so we discover that there may be an “a posteriori” of the look, of the word, of the contact, which breaks all the schemes and brings us closer to the most essential.

Because the opposite of love It is not hatred, it's fear. Fear of what we do not know, of what is different, of being robbed by referents, of being left without arguments. The cabinets must be broken from inside and outside so that equality is not only in the framework of the law and respect arises from the ability to put ourselves in the place of the other. Then we will stop seeing giants where there are only mills.

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Bullying without present continuous

Let's call him bullying, harassment, aggression or whatever, but when the result is the suicide of a girl of 14 years we are speechless. The newspaper El Mundo recovers the story of Carla, the bisexual girl from Gijón that the 11 of April of 2013 decided that it could not take anymore and he committed suicide launching from the cliff of La Providencia. Thus ended two years of insults, homophobia, persecution, violence.

Almost a year later, Carla's family requested that reopen the case that the prosecutor ruled out as a case of bullying, in light of the messages that were posted on social networks the days after the girl's death. «Carla committed suicide because of you«,« The whole SAG was messing with her »and more messages that state that suicide by bullying requires answers and has guilty.

The reconstruction of the story is shuddering and it leaves us with that empathic feeling of helplessness and lack of protection, which unfortunately arrived very late. Read the full article here.

(Article via The World: School aggression and jump to emptiness)

ELLA International Lesbian Festival

ELLA International Lesbian Festival aims to establish itself as the reference lesbian festival in the Mediterranean. The Insular Council is strongly committed to the gay market and Mallorca follows the path set by Ibiza. You have an appointment from September 4 to 8. Do not miss!

Lesworking, lesbian network professionals

If there are professional circles for the tourism, gastronomic, blogger sector ... why not one for lesbians? This is what was asked Lesworking, network of international networking for lesbian professionals.

Lesworking starts as a private group of LinkedIn, which already has different profiles of different countries: lawyers, consultants, doctors, businesswomen, journalists, artists, etc. from Spain, the United States, France, Mexico, Germany or France. Its founder, Marta Fernández Herraiz, explains that the objective of Lesworking is to be a platform to promote projects aimed at the world Les, and also to serve as a forum to help each other in their professional careers.

Taking into account that it may be the case of lesbian professionals who do not have normalized their situation at work or do not want to share this information in their work environment, Lesworking facilitates the inclusion in the group in a private and discreet way. In this way an online and professional environment is presented where you can feel comfortable. In addition, Lesworking also opts for offline events where you can meet in person the members of the group.

Gayles.tv we support and collaborate with the project. Y we wish you good luck the Lesworking team and a great network of professional contacts. You can already be part of the group requesting your admission to the group here.