Our weekly column, News is Good, features positive news about the LGBTQ+ community. Too much of what we see in mainstream media coverage focuses on the challenges we face and not the celebrations. Here are a few things we’re excited about this week.
Art show featuring LGBTQ+ artists of rural America to open in Breckenridge, Colorado. Beginning Jan. 27, visitors of Breck Create will be able to experience the new exhibit, “In Plain Sight: Queer Rural Narratives From the Water and the Land.” Featuring the work of five LGBTQ+ artists, Breck Create states that the artists’ work “contends with lived experience in smaller, more remote places, the two-way flow of influence between rural and urban areas, and the ways climate change highlights parallels between the treatment of vulnerable ecosystems and populations.”
Composer Joy Redmond’s opera “Hairpiece” to debut at the Kennedy Center. Part of Kennedy Center’s one act opera program, American Opera Initiative, “Redmond’s opera “Hairpiece” is the story of a wigmaker near retirement who is revitalized by the appearance of a young customer and a new challenge. Redmond, who is transgender, features a nonbinary character in the opera. In an interview with the Washington Blade, Redmond said, “I want people to relate it to themselves in some way and their own story, and maybe release some emotion or find some catharsis.” “Hairpiece” opens Jan. 19.
GLAAD announces nominees for the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. This year’s list includes older favorites and popular newcomers in film, music, television and journalism categories. Check out the full list of nominees here.