![]() Because 2020 is the 45th anniversary of the opening of the iconic Atlanta bar, Backstreet, the former owner of the club, Vicki Vara, reached out to Smith and suggested commemorating the anniversary. ![]() The project started out in a very modest way. With his project, Gay Barchives, Art Smith has trained his focus on the community aspect these bars were able to provide. ![]() While some LGBTQ people have faced challenges with substance abuse and alcoholism – rates of substance abuse are typically significantly higher for LGBTQ people than non-LGBTQ people – for others, bars have often served as one of the only safe spaces to meet other LGBTQ people. Historically, LGBTQ bars have proven to be somewhat of a double edge sword for LGBTQ people. Randy Fair, who wrote this article, is the author of Southern.
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Small Gods by Jason Rand (writer), Juan Ferreyra (artist/toner), Eduardo Ferreyra (gray tones, issues #2-10), and Jim Keplinger (letterer). As always, you can click on the images to see them better. Today we’re taking a look at an early work by one of the best artists currently working in comics! This post was originally published on 12 November 2013. ![]() I’m planning on doing these once a week until I have all the old ones here at the blog. But I hope you enjoy these, and if you’ve never read them before, I hope they give you something to read that you might have missed. I plan on keeping them exactly the same, which is why my references might be a bit out of date and, early on, I don’t write about art as much as I do now. I republished my early posts, which I originally wrote on my personal blog, at Comics Should Be Good about ten years ago, but since their redesign, most of the images have been lost, so I figured it was about time I published these again, here on our new blog. ![]() ![]() I began writing these a little over sixteen years ago, and I’m still doing it, because I dig writing long-form essays about comics. Hi, and welcome to Comics You Should Own, a semi-regular series about comics I think you should own. ![]()
![]() “I was never one early on in my career that you really said anything out loud about being gay. Participating at the flag-raising event may have been the most public she has been about her personal life. ajxA1KJcBQĭonis, the highest-ranking gay administrator in the city of Fresno government, has often posted pictures of her wife and children on social media. The flag, with stripes of rainbow colors plus chevrons representing people of color and transgender people, will fly for seven days.ĭonis said the event gave her “hope in humanity.” And I’m very proud of all of you,” Donis told an estimated 500 people gathered Friday morning at City Hall.Īfter a weeks-long controversy over whether to raise the gay pride flag at City Hall, the “Progress Pride” flag flew at the seat of city government. (The mayor and Fresno City Council) did the right thing. “Courageous leadership does the right thing, not because they have to, but because it’s the right thing to do. Fresno Fire Chief Kerri Donis said it took courage to hold a gay pride flag ceremony at City Hall. |
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