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Man -Up Malcolm Turnball
The right-wing Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is trying to dodge the inevitability of making same-sex legal in his country by passing the buck. Instead of just passing a law that he has the power to do, he has set up a postal vote, which is informal and not regulated by any law. asking the…
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Paul Freeman’s Australian Working Men Exposed
According to Websters dictionary a ‘larrikan yakka’ is an Australian term for a ‘boisterous, often badly behaved young man who does hard physical work’. In this new superb book by acclaimed photographer PAUL FREEMAN these particular muscular rugged larrikans have just finished work and are in a state of undress presumably to start the…
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P.Town’s 30th Annual Swim For Life
When P Town avant-garde artist and LGBT activist Jay Critchley started the town’s annual SWIM FOR LIFE in 1988 at the height of the AIDS pandemic, no way could he have imagined that 30 years later the Event would be the Town’s largest Celebration of Life. Always held the weekend after Labor Day the SWIM FOR…
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Fancy a Finn?
ELSKA one of our favorite queer bookazines goes Finnish. Every edition of the magazine is devoted to the men in just one city, and this month the spotlight falls on the people of what is perhaps the most under-discovered Nordic capital. As usual they are all very regular guys ……not a single model in sight…
