The third annual spring installment of ImageOut brings timely films to The Little and Dryden this week.
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Michael Gamilla, longtime program director for the ImageOut film festival, dies at 55
Rochester’s arts and LGBTQ+ communities remember Gamilla as a dedicated curator of global LGBTQ+ stories.
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Pride parade and festival to return to Rochester
A Pride parade and festival returns to Rochester following the collapse of the region’s most prominent LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
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A darker Amanda Lee Peers comes into the light with ‘Sinner’
Amanda Lee Peers’s album “Sinner” reflects the singer-songwriter’s inner transformation since appearing on “The Voice” nearly seven years ago.
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LGBTQ people are being overlooked in New York’s COVID-19 health data
New York has added the gender category of “other” to coronavirus test forms to capture transgender people, but advocates say “other” is not a catch-all.
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Cuomo directs hate crime task force to help investigate assault against transgender man in Rochester
Cuomo said that he is outraged by reports that a 30-year-old Black trans man was attacked last Friday.
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The Pride Divide
Feeling excluded from the Rochester Pride festival, queer and trans people of color create their own spaces.
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Preview: Rochester Black Pride Festival 2018
Now in its third (official) year, the annual intersectionality-focused Black Pride Festival features workshops and discussions, parties, concerts, a cookout, and youth-focused events.
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Trillium Health pharmacy offering key HIV protection
When Tim Brumfield walked into Trillium Health not long ago, he was more than a little scared: had he contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS? Brumfield, a tall, good-looking young man with a winning smile, says he had had a recent sexual encounter that concerned him. So he went to Trillium to get tested. […]
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The stained-glass ceiling
Not everyone can talk about God and get others to listen. But there’s something about the Rev. Myra Brown’s voice that perfectly suits her line of work; her calm and reassurance connects. Brown, 51, is a fixture in the Rochester-area spiritual scene, spanning everything from being a young altar worker at black Catholic revivals to […]
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