From closet to community

How OKC’s gay and lesbian community emerged.

News
James Cooper

Editor’s note: It’s been 30 years since the first AIDS case was reported in the United States. This is the first of a two-part history of the disease’s devastation in Oklahoma City, and the story of how a community emerged to fight back and save itself. Much of the reporting is based on Aaron L. Bachhofer’s 2006 dissertation, “The Emergence and Evolution of the Gay and Bisexual Male Subculture in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1889- 2005,” and interviews conducted this summer.

 

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

In God's name

The Killer Nun

Mercy me!

Horror
Rod Lott
Forgive and forget — the one ability that Sister Gertrude (La Dolce Vita star Anita Ekberg) sorely lacks, in 1979's The Killer Nun, one of the more popular entries in the whacked-out subgenre known as “nunsploitation.” However, the Italian project may be the only one based on a true story.

 

Monday, April 9, 2012

Rev up

Changing hearts and minds one song at a time, Emma’s Revolution keeps fighting the good fight.

Music
Chris Parker
Emma’s Revolution
7 p.m. Saturday
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com
524-0738
$15-$20

 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Wish Me Away

Country star Chely Wright seeks acceptance as she comes clean about living a lie in a documentary that chronicles her very public process of coming out.

Documentary
Rod Lott
Wish Me Away
7:30 p.m. Thursday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch
okcmoa.com
236-3100
$5-$8

 

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

An evolution of pride

The city’s annual celebration of gay pride expands beyond its historically LGBT-friendly borders.

News
James Cooper
For its 25th anniversary celebration, the OKC Pride Parade will follow its traditional parade route, kicking off at Memorial Park on N.W. 36th Street and Classen and concluding on “The Strip,” the area on N.W. 39th between Pennsylvania and May avenues historically associated with the city’s LGBT community.

 

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Rendezvous on rights

LGBT rights will be the focus of a regional conference in Norman this weekend.

News
Sarah Lobban
PFLAG Regional Training Conference
8:30 a.m. Saturday
St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church
1801 W. Brooks St., Norman
921-2348

 

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Wedding bell blues

A Tulsa same-sex couple hopes their fight for marriage equality will make it to the U.S. 10th Circuit.

News
Clifton Adcock
Nearly seven and a half years ago, a Tulsa couple decided to file a lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma after the government decided to prevent them from becoming married.

 

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Twins of Evil

Double, double, toil and trouble ...

Horror
Rod Lott
For me, the more desperate Hammer Film Productions got as audiences’ tastes changed in the early 1970s, the more fun their flicks became. That’s why 1971’s Twins of Evil is now one of my favorites from the legendary British studio, after digging into its Blu-ray debut from Synapse Films.

 

Friday, July 20, 2012

Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live

Grab your things / I’ve come to take you home.

Documentary
Rod Lott
I'd say Peter Gabriel has aged wonderfully, judging from the concert film Secret World, but the performance is nearly two decades old, from 1993. Although far removed from his heyday as an MTV idol — the venue looks as if its audience were lifted from a BMW dealership super-sale — he still sounded great.

 

Tuesday, August 7, 2012