Nutrition can make, break your fitness routine
Contributing blogger Troy Meyers is a certified personal trainer and sports conditioner with more than 10 years of experience. He owns Atlanta-based JockBoyLocker.com and contributes to the site’s Lockerroom Blog.A critical factor in any fitness routine is diet. Food, carbs and calories can undo the progress you make in the gym or help progress your routine even more. So consider these nutrition mistakes.
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Oscar Wilde, church progress, online gamers
• Senate advances hate crimes measure.• Family says closeted gay sailor killed fellow gay seaman August Provost.
• Supervisor retires, agency head says policies were violated in wake of raid on Texas gay bar.
• Gay Bishop Gene Robinson speaks out as Episcopal Church moves forward on gay bishops, rites for blessing gay unions.
• Gay porn actor Taleon Goffney (left) gets three to eight years for burglaries; his twin has August court date.
• Catholic groups boost campaign against Maine marriage.
• Vatican heaps praise on Oscar Wilde, who it once condemned as immoral.
• Man gets light sentence in death of gay man in Washington, D.C.
• Gay rights group plans talk on silencing slurs by online gamers.
• Jamaican woman asks not to be deported due to her sexuality. READ MORE »
Friday: 16 gay things to do today
• Southern Voice unveils its Best of Gay Atlanta award winners. 7 p.m.• Whack a volleyball during open play with Hotlanta Volleyball Association or swim with the Atlanta Rainbow Trout. 7:30 p.m.
• Enjoy the Raw Talent Reunion Show at My Sisters Room. 10 p.m.
• There's a Tryst to be had at Bellissima. 10 p.m.
• The less you wear, the less cover you pay at the Bare As U Dare Party at Jungle. 10 p.m.
View the full list of gay things to do today on Project Q Atlanta's interactive community calendar. You can also submit your events. READ MORE »
Hit musical opens Actor’s Express season
You’d think the folks at Actor’s Express might take a little break and recharge their batteries.But the dynamic theater company -- fresh from the highly-successful run of the highly-gay “Zanna, Don’t!” -- is busily preparing for its 22nd season on the stage of its West Midtown complex.
The season launches late next month with a seven-week run of the hit Broadway musical “Grey Gardens.” Throw in a love triangle with a lesbian twist, the homoerotic setting of an all-male prep school, a priest on furlough and a buxom actress in a slasher movie attempting to keep her pill-popping mom in check and you’ve got yourself a season full of entertainment.
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Tyler Perry has way more money than you
Tyler Perry is one rich bitch. That the Atlanta director has money is of little surprise -- he sits atop a production studio in south Atlanta that spits out movies and TV shows like a Chinese sweatshop churns out shoes for Nike. But that he has this much money -- Perry made $75 million last year -- means the glass closet in which he lives is, well, a really, really nice one. It's in Buckhead, of course.
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Marriage, hate vote, bishops, raid apology
• Senate expected to vote Thursday on hate crimes legislation.• Gay director Todd Holland (photo) backs away from telling young gay actors to stay in the closet.
• Episcopal bishops give ground on gay marriage.
• Previously intoxicated man sparked gay bar raid in Dallas.
• Sotomayor hearings: Gay marriage makes its way into questioning.
• West Virginia lawmakers study amendment banning gay marriage.
• Gay-marriage foes take early lead in fundraising in Maine.
• Portland police, gay activists to meet over Pride scuffle.
• Fort Worth mayor says apology for injury, not raid.
• Lithuania president slams anti-gay censorship bill. READ MORE »
Thursday: 18 gay things to do today
• Lunch, learn and network with Out & Equal at 11:45 a.m. or the Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.• The Atlanta Executive Network holds its Summer Party at Bellissima. 6 p.m.
• AID Atlanta offers its latest P.O.O.L. discussion, this one called "Summer Lovin': Form Hookups to Monogamy." 7 p.m.
• Cliterati hosts its monthly night of open mic and reading at Charis. 7:30 p.m.
• Hydrate Thursdays (photo) keeps the cocktails pouring at W Atlanta-Midtown. 9 p.m.
View the full list of gay things to do today on Project Q Atlanta's interactive community calendar. You can also submit your events. READ MORE »
T.O. bares, sex slang, tweets drop ‘Bruno’
• Can Washington, D.C. change the face of the queer rights movement?• Lesbian love is a lot like a PB&J.
• Lessons to be learned from straight celebrities like Daniel Radcliffe.
• The newest sex slang, from Thighbrows to Dicknotized.
• Marion Barry on his ethics woes: Tthe homo is trying to set me up.'
• Proof: The gay marriage movement is draining resources from queer activism.
• T.O. (photo) goes naked for new VH1 show.
• Did Twitter make "Bruno" a one-day wonder at the box office?
• Out actor John Barrowman on Dr. Jack and “Torchwood” and on fame.
• When an ex-Mormon dude sleeps with your boyfriend. READ MORE »
Charlie Stadtlander seeks school board seat
Charlie Stadtlander didn’t sit out the local political election cycle for long.The gay elementary school teacher in DeKalb County announced on Wednesday his bid for the District 3 seat on the Atlanta Board of Education. This race comes about three months after Stadtlander dropped his bid for the District 6 post on the Atlanta City Council.
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Atlanta’s tops getting busy at record rates
What we learned on the Internet today:• Georgia ranks among most states in being top heavy -- as in more tops than bottoms. Seriously. That's according to an unscientific study from Manhunt, which trolled its user profiles to find that more of its members in Georgia describe themselves as tops. Keep in mind those categories are self-reported.
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Marriage, homophobia and people of color
Contributing blogger Darian Aaron is an Alabama native who now calls Atlanta home. He’s the creator of Living Out Loud with Darian, a blog that offers his take on social, political and religious issues that impact the LGBT community.Last month, I had the pleasure of being a guest on Atlanta's "Pride & Politics" to discuss marriage equality and homophobia in the black community. "Pride & Politics" is hosted by Atlanta based journalist Anare' Holmes and is produced by People TV.
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Mayoral apology, Bill Clinton, ‘Big Brother’
• Episcopal leaders vote to lift ban on gay bishops.• Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief (photo) apologizes for raid on gay bar.
• Letter to gay group, later retraction stir backlash in California city.
• Coalition of LGBT groups: Next year too soon for gay marriage vote in California.
• Former President Bill Clinton comes out in support of same-sex marriage.
• Gay pride display fails to get postal stamp of approval in Milwaukee post office.
• Gay Catholics discuss marriage equality.
• Homophobia flares on "Big Brother."
• Lithuania OKs law to keep gay info away from kids.
• Ukraine bans "Bruno" for nudity, gay sex. READ MORE »
Wednesday: 16 gay things to do today
• Adam Brackman, a gay candidate for the Atlanta City Council, hosts a meet and greet. 6 p.m.• Bowl with the Decatur Women's Sports League or run with Front Runners Atlanta. 6:30 p.m.
• The Deeper Love Project hosts its weekly "Many Men, Many Voices" workshop. 7 p.m.
• Dip into the Honey Pot at Mary's. 8 p.m.
• There's Men on the Prowl at Vita (9 p.m.) and Who's Who ATL brings a new gay night to Primal (10 p.m.).
View the full list of gay things to do today on Project Q Atlanta's interactive community calendar. You can also submit your events. READ MORE »
Accident leads to ‘better’ My Sisters Room
My Sisters Room reopens on Friday after a five-week closure, something we reported on Monday. And as Southern Voice adds, the East Atlanta lesbian venue is putting the best spin possible on renovations in the wake of a partial deck collapse last month:“The place just looks really, really clean,” [co-owner Patryce Yeiser] said. “I hate that this [deck collapse] happened, but it was a good opportunity for us to make My Sisters’ Room even better.”
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Ask ‘what’ not ‘why’ in boosting career
Contributing blogger John Long is a professional career coach in Atlanta who founded Two Roads Resources. He answers: "I want to move up the ladder. Why can't I make any real progress?" READ MORE »Do you want to see Vern Yip sweat?
Gay Atlanta designer Vern Yip is back on HGTV, reprising his role as a judge for the fourth season of the network's "Design Star" that premieres on Sunday.He dishes on that role in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and reveals that HGTV opted not to renew his show, "Deserving Design," for a fifth season. Many of the show's 54 episodes were shot in metro Atlanta.
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