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Carl Vaughn Frick
Carl Vaughn Frick – often credited as Vaughn Frick or simply Vaughn – is an alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay, environmental, HIV/AIDS awareness, and radical political themes in his comics. His ''Watch Out! Comix'' #1 (1986) was an influential gay-themed comic, one of the first by an openly gay male cartoonist. His work was also included in issues of ''Gay Comix,'' '' Meatmen'', '' Strip AIDS'', '' No Straight Lines'', and ''So Fey,'' a collection of Radical Faerie fiction. Personal life Vaughn is primarily known for being outspoken in his works, often focusing on activism within various communities. Although he is primarily associated with the romance and erotica genre due to his works within queer publications, Vaughn is also versed in writing for the sci-fi, horror, and supernatural genres. It is known that Vaughn pursued acting as a career in the 1980s while simultaneously writing for ''Gay Comix #3.''''Gay Comix #3.'' Edited by Howard Cruse. Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical Faeries
Radical Faeries are a loosely affiliated worldwide network and Counterculture, countercultural movement blending queer consciousness and secular spirituality. Sharing various aspects with neopaganism, the movement also adopts elements from anarchism and environmentalism. Rejecting Heteronormativity, hetero-Identification (psychology), imitation, the Radical Faerie LGBT social movements, movement began during the 1970s sexual revolution among homosexuality, gay men in the United States. Gay activists Harry Hay, Mitchell L. Walker, Mitch Walker, Don Kilhefner, and John Burnside (inventor), John Burnside organized the first Spiritual Conference for Radical Faeries in September 1979. The network subsequently evolved alongside queer rights expansions, engaging with New Age, eclectic constructs and rituals while challenging pink capitalism, commercialized and patriarchal aspects of modern LGBTQ, LGBTQ+ life. Faeries tend to be fiercely independent, anti-establishment, and community-focu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strip AIDS USA
''Strip AIDS'' and ''Strip AIDS U.S.A.'' are comics anthology volumes published in 1987 in the UK, and 1988 in the US (respectively). They combined short comics with educational and sometimes comedic themes, to educate readers about HIV disease and safer sex, and to raise funds for the care of people with AIDS. ''Strip AIDS'' ''Strip AIDS'' was edited by Don Melia, and published by Willyprods/Small Time Ink. Proceeds of the project went to London Lighthouse, England's first residential and day-care facility for people with AIDS. It was 56 pages. The book was released in conjunction with an art exhibition in London, which brought the number of artists involved to nearly 90. Contributors include Steven Appleby, Bill Belcher, Steve Bell, Mark Buckingham, Daniel Clowes, Richard Coles, Alan Davis, Kim Deitch, Frank Dickens, Hunt Emerson, Melinda Gebbie, Dave Gibbons, David Hine, Rian Hughes, Gray Joliffe, Raymond Jackson, Nick Kamen, Larry Marder, Jay Lynch, Peter Milligan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBTQ Comics Creators
LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender, and other individuals. The group is generally conceived as broadly encompassing all individuals who are part of a sexual or gender minority, including all sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities, and sex characteristics that are not heterosexual, heteroromantic, cisgender, or endosex, respectively. Scope and terminology A broad array of sexual and gender minority identities are usually included in who is considered LGBTQ. The term ''gender, sexual, and romantic minorities'' is sometimes used as an alternative umbrella term for this group. Groups that make up the larger group of LGBTQ people include: * People with a sexual orientation that is non-heterosexual, including lesbians, gay men, bisexual people, and asexual people * People who are trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Cartoonists
Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * Alternative comics, or independent comics are an alternative to mainstream superhero comics * Alternative fashion, fashion that stands apart from mainstream, commercial fashion. * Alternative manga, manga published outside the more commercial market, or which have different art styles, themes, and narratives to those found in the more popular manga magazines. * ''AlterNative'', academic journal * ''The Alternative'' (film), a 1978 Australian television film * ''The Alternative'', a radio show hosted by Tony Evans * ''120 Minutes'' (2004 TV program), an alternative rock music video program formerly known as ''The Alternative'' *''The American Spectator'', an American magazine formerly known as ''The Alternative: An American Spectator'' Music * Alternative dance, a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PDXS
''PDXS'' was a biweekly tabloid newspaper in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon from 1991 to 1998. It was founded by Jim Redden, previously a reporter with ''Willamette Week'' and subsequently with the ''Portland Tribune'', and his brother Bill Redden, who went on to become a public defender. ''PDXS'' focused on arts and culture, as well as news coverage (typically exposé journalism and conspiracy theory.) ''PDXS'' was one of several "local culture" periodicals that launched in the early 1990s, alongside ''Face Value'', ''Art Rag'', ''Paperback Jukebox'', ''Snipehunt'', ''Metropolis'', and ''Plazm'', alongside ''Reflex'', which was published in nearby Seattle and covered the Portland art scene. History In 1991, brothers Jim and Bill Redden left the ''Willamette Week'' to launched a new publication focused on music called ''PDXS.'' Competitors ''Tonic'', ''Paperback Jukebox'', and ''Blotter'' all folded within a few months in 1995; that year, Jim Redden and fellow former ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RFD (magazine)
''RFD'' is a reader-written quarterly magazine celebrating queer diversity. Since its founding in 1974 as a publication for rural gays and alternative lifestyles, the magazine has been edited by different communities in various U.S. locations. While predating the Radical Faeries, the magazine and the movement have long been associated. Notable writers featured in ''RFD'' include the poet Essex Hemphill. History The magazine began with a group of gay male Iowans who attempted to place an advertisement in the countercultural ''Mother Earth News'', about organizing the gay-centered commune Running Water Farm. (based in part on Patt, Rocco (Running Water Farm co-founder). Personal Interview. 8 Dec. 1998.) The ad was rejected on the grounds that the magazine did not run gay-themed advertisements. The initial organizers of the commune began pursuing publication of their own magazine, as a means of communicating with other rural collectives and gay men living outside of cities. Stewar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction. The ISFDB is a volunteer effort, with the database being open for moderated editing and user contributions, and a wiki that allows the database editors to coordinate with each other. the site had catalogued 2,002,324 story titles from 232,816 authors. The code for the site has been used in books and tutorials as examples of database schema and organizing content. The ISFDB database and code are available under Creative Commons licensing. The site won the Wooden Rocket Award in the Best Directory Site category in 2005. Purpose The ISFDB database indexes speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history) authors, novels, short fiction, essays, publishers, awards, and magazines in print, electronic, and audio formats. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Apples
The bad apples metaphor originated as a warning of the corrupting influence of one corrupt or sinful person on a group: that "one bad apple can spoil the barrel". Over time the concept has been used to describe the opposite situation, where "a few bad apples" should not be seen as representative of the rest of their group. This latter version is often used in the context of police misconduct. Origins The bad apples metaphor originates from the proverb "A rotten apple quickly infects its neighbor", first recorded as used in English in 1340. The proverb was rephrased by Benjamin Franklin in ''Poor Richard's Almanack'' in 1736, stating "the rotten apple spoils his companion." The phrase was popularized by sermons during the 19th century, claiming "As one bad apple spoils the others, so you must show no quarter to sin or sinners." A popular form of the saying became "One bad apple spoils the barrel." The saying has scientific basis: as well as mold being able to spread from one ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay Comix
''Gay Comix'' (later ''Gay Comics'') is an underground comics series published from 1980 to 1998 featuring cartoons by and for gay men and lesbians. The comic books had the tagline "Lesbians and Gay Men Put It On Paper!" Much of the early content was autobiographical, but more diverse themes were explored in later editions. The contents of ''Gay Comix'' were generally about relationships, personal experiences, and humor, rather than sex. It is generally less sexually explicit than the similarly themed (and male-focused) '' Meatmen'' series of graphic novels. Its editors each made a deliberate effort to feature work by both women and men. Development The idea for ''Gay Comix'' came from Denis Kitchen, a publisher of underground comics through the company he founded, Kitchen Sink Press. In 1979, after realizing underground cartoonist Howard Cruse was gay, Kitchen asked him to edit an anthology of gay comic artists. The two had worked together previously; Cruse's comic ''Barefo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Sisters Book And Art Emporium V Canada
''Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v Canada (Minister of Justice)'' 0002 S.C.R. 1120, 2000 SCC 69 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on freedom of expression and equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It was held that the '' Customs Act'', which gave broad powers to customs inspectors to exclude "obscene" materials, violated the right to freedom of expression under section 2 but was justifiable under section 1; however the ''Customs Act'' must be read to place the onus of proving obscenity on the state, not the importer. Background Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium is a bookstore in Vancouver, British Columbia, that sells gay and lesbian-related literature. It imports most of its material from the United States, which often caused trouble at the border when material was classified as obscene by Canada Customs and was thus refused entry. The bookstore challenged the provision of the ''Customs Act'' prohibiting the importation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Cortez
Jaime Cortez is a Chicano-American graphic novelist, visual artist, writer, teacher, and performer. Cortez is also known for his role as an LGBT rights activist, and HIV/AIDS prevention work. Early years Cortez was born in the agricultural town of San Juan Bautista, California to working class parents. At eight years old he moved to Watsonville, California. He is the second of three children, with two sisters. Cortez was first introduced to the arts in elementary school but did not take his first formal art class until he was in seventh grade. During this time, Cortez describes his early passion for drawing as a way to cope with feeling like an outsider at school. As a self-proclaimed nerd, Cortez recalls this time as when "nerds were nerds, unlike now, when nerd is a code word for cool." Cortez further recalls that his love of drawing at an early age lead him to steal money from his mother's purse to buy a drawing pad. He filled this drawing pad with comic book imagery, and imit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
