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TOVE LO Chats Up Music Midtown

  All hail the fairy dust queen On the eve of her Music Midtown performance, Tove Lo chats us up about all things ‘Lady Wood’ By Gregg Shapiro It’s been a couple of years since bisexual Swedish singer/songwriter Tove Lo made an impact with her debut disc Queen of the Clouds, containing the hit singles...

Party with Impact

Here’s how to ‘Party with Impact’ Annual fundraising party celebrates client-centered care organization Positive Impact Health Centers By Mike Fleming Hard to believe it’s been more than two-and-a-half decades that some gay caregiving professionals noticed that even as improvement in medical care came, no one was treating the mental affects of HIV and AIDS. Enter Positive...

Dumped For An Ex

By Branden Lee   WELL MY HOPES OF MIRACULOUSLY finding my first ever boyfriend after only one week in Atlanta were  quickly dashed.   Things with EMT were great the first week. We spent nearly every day together. He showed me around the city. He took me to most of the gay bars. We went...

Dance, queen, dance!

Autumn 2017’s tea dance playlist starts with Arcade Fire, who hits Atlanta this week   By Gregg Shapiro   Arcade Fire has been encouraging us to dance since its first full-length album, 2004’s Funeral. But it wasn’t until 2013;s Reflektor that the band fully embraced its inner dance diva.   Everything Now (Columbia) continues in a...

True Confessions

I lied. Not all my exes live in Texas like hurricanes. There are love tornadoes right here in Atlanta.   By Mike Fleming Editorial Director   I TOLD Y’ALL LAST WEEK about my long-term relationships, the two Houston-based artists and forward thinkers who inspired me, made me laugh and put a surge in my creative...