Spangle Magazine
Where the LGBT community checks in before coming, er, going out in Cleveland
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June 20, 2008
 
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Sure, you can throw a benefit with a prom theme and know your guests will show up appropriately attired in tuxes and taffeta dresses...
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The summer between my first and second grade years, my sister — and all of the other girls in our West Point, N.Y., cul-de-sac — decided they wanted to put on an amateur performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music for our parents. The problem? Just...
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It’s official (well, as official as you can get before final-final results are certified): Cuyahoga County government is about to undergo a massive overhaul. ...
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You’d be the unluckiest debate-team member ever if you were assigned the job of developing the negative position against this statement: The Gordon Square Arts District constituents are leading Cleveland’s best urban revitalization project on the west side this decade. Le...
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Spangler Roger Zender is back for his monthly dose of the best concerts in town and around the region. Nothing can help you embrace and enjoy the changing of the seasons like getting out of the house and experiencing them...
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And now, your editor takes a small political diversion from our usual arts and culture content.Today, President Obama is poised to sign into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which will add sexual orientation and gender identity classes to existing federal...
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 It’s the biggest queer holiday that doesn’t involve an ostentatious display of rainbow colors and girl-and-guitar performances: Halloween.And it involves a heckuva lot of work. Aft...
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  When Jack Bauer regularly breaks suspected terrorists’ bones in the name of national security (and higher ratings), and Sue Sylvester can deliver a passionate defense of caning teens on a broadcast show that draws a family audience, you have to go pretty far in 2009 to shock an audience.Which may...
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  I’m notorious for giving out unsolicited opinions and advice. But it has come to my attention that there remains a certain type of woman in our midst, and she needs help. This poor, unfortunate soul is sucking the life out of gay men everywhere. Th...
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  The Gays love themselves some Halloween.Whether it’s the opportunity to take on a new persona, the chance to play dress-up, or just an excuse to party down, we worship All Hallows’ Eve; it’s second only to Pride as the most popular queer night of the year. And wi...
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  Drag kings take center stage this fall — but not in their native habitat under the lights at Bounce. Th...
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  Director and actress Beth Wood plays a lot of lesbians (but she's never been one — even in college!). And she sometimes plays characters who may or may not be transgender. And sometimes men.Yet despite her often butch roles, Wood is a bit of a girly girl. An...
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  Just a few years ago, the Cleveland queer community had to be satisfied when the city’s outreach to us was flying the rainbow flag over City Hall for pride weekend.Yet in just the past 12 months, we’ve seen the approval of a domestic partner registry, action on a transgender anti-...
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  Say this about the 1986 Tony Awards — it must have been a pretty weak year for The Mystery of Edwin Drood to win five accolades. I ...
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  If you’re going to write a comedy about living in Cleveland, there are some cheap, obvious and unsatisfying gags. There’s the one in which you question why any out-of-towner would choose to move to Ohio. Ther...