Performances in Roza Disco: lesbian group Belladona from France, Students' Party with Salome and Elena. People from Kersnikova street wanted to evict Klub K4, right-wingish students' government would evict only Roza Disco, but is afraid to lose votes.
Lambda (SKUC publishing) published three books this year. Natasa Velikonja's poetry debut "Abonma", Herve Guibert's "Friend who didn't save my life" and Rita Mae Brown's "Pomegranate" are reviewed.
Exhibition "Tu smo" (We are here) was a part of celebrating the 10th Anniversary of gay movement in Slovenia. The exhibition was a retrospective of the work done.
Reviews of films that were played on the 10th Gay and Lesbian Film Festival follow.
Here you can find articles about the rainbow flag, parents-activists, Richard Gere, photo competition, BJ and Mike, the winners of San Francisco's Drag King Contest, mainstream - lesbian movie Sirenne, partnerships over Europe, Madonna, Tom Robinson, Gregg Araki, The Indigo Girls, Priscilla, Diamanda Gallas, marketing, news from around the world, ILGA's Helsinki conference and celebrities' bright thoughts.
In "Urbi et orbi" we can read about taking care of reproduction. A short travel trough time, from legalization of homosexuality in 1974 past the process of Slovenia becoming an independent state, the era when queers were almost acceptable, to present, when we are a bit less acceptable. Right wingers see us as a dead branch on the tree of life and don't approve of our efforts to legalize same-sex partnerships.
Douglas Conrad is a gay activist, journalist, culture worker,... After having shot a documentary called "Shades of Red and Pink" in Eastern Europe he came to Ljubljana with his assistant Tracy Thompson.
Belladonna are Michele Condriu and Agnes Royonlemmee. They're original and active music makers from Marseilles. They had a performance in Roza Disco last year. After the performance they spoke to Revolver about their work, CD Belladonna 9 CH, feminism, lesbianism, apocalypse, AIDS and dadaism.
Short biography of Pedro Zamora from MTV's Real World.
18 years. Natural blonde. She likes dancing, working out, romantic evenings and Italians. She hates hipocrysy, brutality, pretending, drugs. Plans: to be happy with a man she loved and have a successful career.
That was Rebekka's introduction in September 1986's Playboy. Her teenage dreams came true, but it was not meant for her to be one of the dumb beauties. Eight years later she's living with AIDS and is active in fight against AIDS.
Revolver made a poll among lesbians and gays last year. They were asked questions regarding life, sex, health and scene. Results are published here.
Which images do lesbians find erotic, in which images do they find themselves? Lesbian-feminist ideal of the 70's (short hair, simplicity, etc.) is outdated now. Who's in? KD Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Doris Day may be the answer.
About mentality in general, medium and mental pictures, scientific facts and prejudices.
Do famous lesbians really accept lesbian community or does the coming out fever fade away as quickly as summer's skin-tan? Are lesbian starts really out or are they just standing behind the safe dorr of their closet and try to take the advantages of being out and still be viewed as straight in straight society? Answers are presented on examples of Rita Mae Brown, Alix Dobkin, Jean O'Leary, Indigo Girls, Alice Walker, Pratibha Parmar, Donna Deitch, Lizzie Borden, Madonna, Jodie Foster,...
Gay film through history, from the first gay film Vingarna ("Wings", Mauritz Stiller, 1916) past Josephine Baker, Jacqueline Susann, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Rudolph Valentino, Rock Hudson, Derek Jarman, Andy Warhol et al. to present.
Castrats were very fashionable during 17th and 18th Century. In the Middle Ages women weren't allowed to sing in church choirs. Adolescents sang higher tones. But it was difficult to find men with high and strong voices. Therefore pre-adolescents were castrated in some places, especially Rome.
Internet, global village, computer communications... All you need is a computer, a modem and a phone line. Then you can enter Cyberspace. BBS (Bulletin Board System) lets you discuss all sorts of things with other people. Internet is a worldwide computer net, which lets you access all sorts of databases and information services. One can find everything on Internet, so some people call it computer data junkyard.
... the designer of male erotica. Models in tight underwear, parfumes like Obsession, torn jeans, Calvin as a shy guy from Bronx, who became a star overnight.
All these insecurities which have kept me down for so long... I can't say I found a cure for them. But at least I know them now, so they aren't as unchangable as they used to be...
Dejan Nebrigic: Lavirintski recnik ili pacifisticke mrvice (III) - Pisma (p)o Wildeu (excerpt) - Bocica za naseg prijatelja
Munich is a city we all know - more or less. But we don't know its gay scene very well. Some people may be screaming now... I had the "normal" population in my mind.
Munich is (maybe also due to its history) the gay capital of Bavaria. It has lots of clubs, restaurants and discos. Some of them are described in this article.