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World Premiere of HOT POT about four university friends reuniting at a hot pot restaurant in London after the COVID pandemic.
It’s less than a week away from the World Premiere of HOT POT a tender new play about four university friends reuniting at a hot pot restaurant in London after the COVID pandemic. The play draws on the lived experiences of East Asian perspectives and explores gay identity with honesty and nuance against a cultural…
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Photographer ABIGAIL EKUE’S new Exhibit ‘RINGSIDE ‘ may make wrestling fans of us all yet
Photographer Abigail Ekue is no stranger to these pages, as we have been following her work for 10 years now. As an artist, she specializes in gender, representation, and body neutrality. Her interest in the “body-ologies” and subcultures fuels her work with clients and personal projects. Turns out that she has also been a…
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Zohran Mamdani is the NY Mayor that the City and the entire queer community really deserve.
At his administration’s inaugural Pride Month celebration yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke about solidarity with LGBTQ+ residents and attacks on transgender health care. The event brought together New Yorkers of all different stripes, from politicians and activists to actors and drag artists. Mamdani said that the celebration signified his administration’s broader commitment to supporting…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘JOHN OF JOHN’ the 3rd novel from queer Booker Prize Winner DOUGLAS STUART
If Douglas Stuart’s first two novels, Shuggy Bain and Young Mungo, were black and white studies of an unrelentingly bleak gay adolescence in Glasgow, the Scottish – American’s author’s third book, John of John, places his young queer protagonist on the island of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, where the harshness of life…
