GA Voice editor Laura Douglas-Brown was featured on AM 1690 | The Voice of the Arts this week in a new bi-weekly segment highlighting upcoming arts and entertainment events and LGBT community news.
In this week's segment, Laura discusses our Summer Travel issue, highlights upcoming LGBT films screening at the Atlanta Film Festival and more...
My Sisters' Room hosts farewell party, benefit for beloved Atlanta lesbian DJ
It seems like every time I turn on my radio there's a gay-affirming song blaring from the speakers.
Even though I'm not a fan of the repetition — even good songs can be worn out — we're lucky to live in a time where we are inundated with positive messages thinly veiled (or not) by pop pulp.
Maybe I'm leaving a song out, but a look at Billboard's radio charts shows that celebrating individuality, and in some cases our sexuality, is very en vogue, especially for straight performers.
Meak Productions dubs itself as the “World’s First LGBT Exclusive Talent Agency, Casting & Production Company,” but is perhaps best known by many in the Atlanta LGBT community for its live radio remotes from such events as the Transgender Day of Remembrance and the recent NOH8 photo shoot.
Miko Evans, CEO and executive producer of Meak Productions, also hosts the syndicated Same Gender Loving Expressions on the Exceptional Radio Network and recently partnered with Click Click Expose to have a program which features LGBT indie music artists, he said.
Same Gender Loving Expressions is a radio show that tries to break out of the box of normal radio shows, Evans said, and has included interviews with mostly African-American Atlanta LGBT business leaders and community activists.
NPR published its “50 Favorite Albums of 2010” list and our readers might recognize a couple of openly gay artists who made the cut.
Sigur Rós frontman Jonsi and his first solo album 'Go' made the list. Here's what NPR had to say:
LGBT radio show airs every Tuesday on WRFG 89.3 FM
'Alternative Perspectives' on WRFG FM gives a queer point of view on Atlanta's airwaves
It’s a sweltering recent Sunday afternoon in Atlanta, and looking at the sweat-stained radio hosts Sir Daniel (Adrian Daniel) and Drama Dupree (Brian Taylor) as they prepare for the 51st episode of Better Days Radio, it’s apparent that everyone is feeling the heat.
The small studio they occupy is cooled by a single fan and it’s taking a while to set up the equipment and the circulation. Despite the scorching weather, Daniel and Taylor are jovial, making small talk about the day’s episode and joking with their engineer about men and sex.
As the show’s disco-inspired intro finally kicks in and the countdown to air begins they instantly transform into an explosive radio duo.
Hey, Regular Guys: It’s not punishment to kiss a guy
Re: “Kissing dudes and ‘The Regular Guys’” (Blog by Bo Shell, GA Voice art director, May 19)
They are a bunch of homophobes with their own latent tendencies. I cannot believe they are still on the air.
They are still on the air because they are funny. This country is becoming a very unfunny place to be. Everyone is so sensitive. Lighten up, folks.
As promised, Atlanta radio morning show ‘The Regular Guys’ discussed GA Voice Art Director Bo Shell’s recent blog post in one of the show’s early morning segments today.