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Jonathan Berry is the first gay Indigenous MR UNIVERSE ( and it only took 78 years1)
It wasn’t the fact that Palaaw man Jonathan Berry was announced as the first gay Indigenous winner that surprised us. We just never knew that the Mr Universe competition still existed!! After all, it started way back in 1948: sometime in the 1950’s bodybuilder/actor Steve Reeves won, and in the 1960’s the future Governor of…
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ONE steals the money for himself AND the other spends it to make life better for the LGBTQ+ community
Life can be so bitterly unfair at times. Queerguru is based in the richest country in the world, which has given the keys to our Money to an Orange convicted felon. We actually pay him $400,000 (not) to do his job, but meanwhile he has made over $2.2 billion to $2.4 billion during the…
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THUNDERHEAD is a monument that pays tribute to LGBTQ Canadians who suffered government-sanctioned persecution
On a day when most Americans (especially us queer ones) are looking northwards enviously at Canada and its incredible Prime Minister Mark Carney being one of the few people in this world standing up to the Orange Would-Be Dictator, we see more good news. A monument that pays tribute to LGBTQ Canadians who suffered government-sanctioned…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews the final performance of ‘EXXY’ at the Edinburgh Int. Festival
EXXY is Australian slang for “that’s expensive mate”. It is used here to describe “class, value and the cost of success”. Dan Daw is a working-class queer artist with cerebral palsy. In EXXY he takes us back to his roots in the bush near Adelaide, where he grew up in poverty with his Nan. His…
