By Lika Starr on February 12, 2010
February 12, 2010 goes down as the snowiest day in Dallas, TX history and ranks this winter as having the second most snowfall in any season. We would have to go back 32 years to find the record holder.
When it snows hard around these parts everything shuts down, kids stay home, adults don’t work and [...]
Posted in events, Other | Tagged dallas, gay, hunks, snow, texas, weather
By Lika Starr on December 13, 2009
Houston proves that a major U.S populous can focus on critical qualifications with open minds when it comes to a high-office election. On Saturday, December 12th 2009, Houstonians do what Dalasites couldn’t do in the last mayoral election. Houston elects Annise Parker as the first openly gay Mayor in major U.S. city. [...]
Posted in equal-rights, events, gay, Inspiration, international, Lesbian, politics | Tagged anti-gay, gay
By Lika Starr on December 1, 2009
Every year here at LikaStarr.com we change the Express Yourself – Protect Yourself photo residing in the sidebar of this site in honor of Aids awareness. We do this every December 1st in recognition of World Aids Day. Today will be our third year and we hope to have many more Decembers to come.
This year [...]
Posted in equal-rights, events, gay, health, holidays, humanity, Inspiration, Inspiration, international, politics, sex, shopping | Tagged aids, hiv-aids
By Lika Starr on April 22, 2009
Happy Earth Day!
This year I want to celebrate Earth Day by honoring some of the gay animals in the world. Its their world too and we need to do all we can to make it a better place for them and their straight friends
So lets all do our part… It can be as [...]
Posted in events, gay, holidays, humanity, Inspiration
By Lika Starr on March 30, 2009
JGL Songs brings us Pride 2009 that commemorates all of LGBTQ history and celebrates the last 40 years of Gay Pride since the riots at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City. Of particular note, it was June 28, 1969 that a police raid turned violent where gays and lesbians fought back marking [...]
Posted in Arts, Entertainment and Music, equal-rights, events, gay, international
By Lika Starr on January 20, 2009
The above mosaic was created by David Rencher and was featured on CNN amongst other noteworthy artwork inspired by President Obama.
January 20, 2009 – A historic day in the United States of America as our 44th President Barack Obama is sworn into office. A milestone is reached for a country in economic peril [...]
Posted in art, events, politics
By Lika Starr on December 9, 2008
Happy Birthday… The Mouse turns a big 40. Like all good little toys, the computer Mouse too has a wooden ancestor. On December 9th,1958 inventor Douglas Engelbart showed how this contraption worked. The mouse was made of a simple wooden block and featured two metal wheels to move the cursor along the x and y [...]
Posted in events, internet | Tagged gadget
By Lika Starr on December 1, 2008
North America got a cosmic treat earlier this evening just after sunset. The crescent moon, Venus and Jupitor all were positioned in the sky to form a triangle. The three brightest celestial objects were as close together in view as they’ll ever be for another 44 years.
I hope you got to see it because it [...]
Posted in events, lika-starr, personal, space | Tagged celestial objects, sunset
By Lika Starr on December 1, 2008
Milk – Reason to celebrate!
In the photo above, actor Sean Penn (playing Harvey Milk) celebrates atop a car in the movie, Milk. The photo is one of 13 officially released images from Focus Features.
indieWIRE — Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” scored a huge Thanksgiving opening, according to initial estimates from Rentrak early this afternoon. The [...]
Posted in entertainment, equal-rights, events, gay, holidays, Inspiration, Inspiration | Tagged gay, holidays, movies, thanksgiving
By Lika Starr on September 11, 2008
A few images reflecting the soul and dedication by the artists hands that painted these murals. To this day these memorials stand in their place as a reminder of the tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001. Our hearts go out to those that were lost, those that were saved and those that saved them. [...]
Posted in events, humanity, Inspiration, war | Tagged 9-11
By Lika Starr on June 10, 2008
Chicago, IL — Senator Barack Obama released this statement on his Pride website.
Posted in equal-rights, events, politics | Tagged 2008-election, barack-obama, gay-issues
By Lika Starr on May 28, 2008
Just a quick update. Jake and I got our Madonna tickets today! Yay — I’m excited about this! In a previous post I told the story of how I didn’t get to see Madonna last time she toured the U.S.
Yesterday tickets for the Houston show went on presale for fan [...]
Posted in entertainment, events | Tagged madonna
By Lika Starr on January 19, 2008
I came across the story of Dick and Rick Hoyt, a.k.a. Team Hoyt, about a year ago on a national network. Upon that first viewing I was touched deeply and I believe I cried (yeah, I do that sometimes). Rick is the son of Dick Hoyt and the duo makes [...]
Posted in equal-rights, events, health, humanity, Inspiration, lika-starr, personal, sports | Tagged Team Hoyt, video, youtube
By Lika Starr on November 27, 2007
Bette does Vegas in true diva style. Bette Midler is schedule to open a series of performances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Feb 20, 2008.
“Get ready Vegas, ’cause here I come! Caesars Palace will never be the same and to all those critics who have accused me of being ‘tacky,’ ‘too [...]
Posted in celebrity, entertainment, events, gay | Tagged bette-midler
By Lika Starr on November 2, 2007
Munich, Germany – October 31st. Sloggi, a UK based lingerie company held a contest and announced the world’s most beautiful bottoms.
The female winner was Bulgarian Kristina Dimitrova, age 19, who claims she eats everything and even puts seven spoons of sugar in her coffee. She likes it sweet but it definitely doesn’t show [...]
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