Arts and culture

Now  he sings about love and peace in a country where other children face being forced to join military groups. Teachers haven’t been paid in over two years, and as the war drags on the danger for children outside of the school system deepens, according to aid organizations. … [Read more...] about Eight-Year-Old Yemeni Singer Enchants Arab World

The economic losses will continue to mount, according to a paper published this month by SMU DataArts - an arts research group at Southern Methodist University - and Jill Robinson, chief executive of TRG Arts, an arts consultancy. They estimate that for 35,000 nonprofit U.S. arts groups with annual budgets over $50,000, the total revenue loss will be $12.4 billion for March 2020 to February 2021. Almost half of those losses will be in ticket sales and other earned income; the rest represents declines in donations and investment income. … [Read more...] about Arts groups in distress call on a former Kennedy Center president for help

“Hairspray Live!” 2016 TV adaptation of the stage musical based on John Waters’ 1988 indie comedy about a dance-crazy, plus-sized teen in 1960s Baltimore. It stars Maddie Baillio, Dove Cameron, Kristin Chenoweth, Harvey Fierstein, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson and Rosie O’Donnell. 11 a.m. Friday; available for 48 hours. Free. youtube.com … [Read more...] about George Takei in the musical ‘Allegiance’: Your quarantine must-watch of the day

“I’m queer and I’m transgender so I had a lot of things to say about how we were wording the questions to make it clear that … this isn’t some outsider group coming in and trying to do research on you, but rather trying to really listen to and capture the experiences of people in their own words as much as possible,” he explained. … [Read more...] about Harvard Study: LGBT People of Color Suffer Double Discrimination

As a 2013 Williams Institute report noted (PDF), gay male couples may have lower poverty rates than straight couples overall but “after controlling for other characteristics that influence poverty,” they were “more likely to be poor.” If gay men are “overrepresented at the very lowest parts of the income distribution,” Carpenter noted, that adds a wrinkle to the finding that gay earning power is on the rise. … [Read more...] about The Gay Wage Gap Is Both Real and Invisible