Stage: Children should be seen and not heard. For many of us this was the general house rule growing up. An attitude held by grandmothers and elder statesman aunts who had already raised their own children and didn't need to hear the same complaints and questions all over again. They had done their time.
Such is the attitude of the iron matrron matriarch helming the family of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. This is the first full-length Simon play to appear at Theater J's Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater and it deserves a warm and enthusiastic welcome.
There's a lovely sentimentality at work here, a wonderfully broad, almost romantic notion of family. A family you may well recognize. The uncle no one talks about. The aunt everyone talks about. The grandmother people talk about, but very softly to make sure she doesn't hear you. (Of course, she always hears you.) ...more
Such is the attitude of the iron matrron matriarch helming the family of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. This is the first full-length Simon play to appear at Theater J's Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater and it deserves a warm and enthusiastic welcome.
There's a lovely sentimentality at work here, a wonderfully broad, almost romantic notion of family. A family you may well recognize. The uncle no one talks about. The aunt everyone talks about. The grandmother people talk about, but very softly to make sure she doesn't hear you. (Of course, she always hears you.) ...more
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)Is Argentina ready to become Latin America's first nation to legalize gay marriage?
Gay and lesbian activists think so — and they have a growing number of supporters in Congress, which opened debate Thursday on whether to change dozens of laws that define marriage as a union between a "man and woman."
"We can't expect social equality if the state is legitimizing inequality," said Maria Rachid, president of Argentina's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Federation. "We now have the social and political context necessary to change the law."
It remains to be see ...
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington BladePresident Obama plans to sign into law on Friday a reauthorization of funds under the Ryan White Care Act, according to Shin Inouye, a White House spokesperson.
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 would provide funding for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS for an additional four years.
First enacted in 1990, the Ryan White Care Act is the nation's largest federally funded program for people living with HIV/AIDS and is designed to assist low-income patients who are underinsured or who have no insurance. ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP)A supporter and an opponent of same-sex marriage made their respective cases on live television Wednesday, less than a week before a statewide referendum on whether to allow gay marriage in Maine.
The referendum is about equality under the law, Mary Bonauto of Protect Maine Equality said in a debate before an audience of nearly 370 people at the University of Southern Maine.
"We have people who want to make a legal commitment, take on responsibilities, who want to be a family," Bonauto said. "Why would anyone in Maine want to stand in the way of those families and their happiness?"
The NO H8 Campaign continues to attract new faces -- including Jojo, Rose McGowan, Holly Madison and Brandon Beemer. 
Students at Kansas State University who decided not to fund a campus visit by a transgender speaker have reversed their decision. 
Comedian Chelsea Handler gives us the goods (well, most of 'em) in the next issue of Playboy. 
Rhubarb Theater show tells true stories from Nashvillians. This Halloween weekend, while all things creepy will strike fear in the hearts of Nashvillians, Trish Crist is hoping to scare up awareness of the reality of intolerance in the mid-state.
In a historic act, President Barack Obama today signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law.
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Maine judge tells NOM it must comply with reporting requirements, asks for donor list
The Vegas strip is synonymous with a lot of things, but gay folks getting hitched?
Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson says he'll appeal a suspension over gay slurs
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