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Rufus Wainwright buys his fairytale castle
Once you’ve met and married your Prince Charming all that is left to do is to find your fairytale castle to live happily ever after. And that is exactly what singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright and his German-born arts administrator Jörn Weisbrodt husband have just done. Perched high on a steep hillside near the mouth of Laurel Canyon…
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Diaper Alert : it’s the Adult Baby Club
On the eve of Thanksgiving when our thoughts turn to families here in the U.S., news comes from across the Pond of how some people who just do not want to grow up, are forming their own type of ‘families’. And we are not taking about Peter Pan here! Once a month in London’s oldest…
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Gene Malin : Queen of the Pansy Craze
For a few short years in the 1930’s when Prohibition meant that drinking was very much on the down-low, one group of performers experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Up until then much of the public image of gay people was still limited to the various drag balls…
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Barbie & Ken ….and his boyfriend …..living it up in style.
queerguru first came across photographer David Parise’s work one Sunday afternoon at Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road Collectables Market a couple of years ago, and instantly fell in love with his whole series of vintage Barbie & Ken pictures. In fact ‘Boys at Sunset’ above is the first one we purchased that day. Parise had been living in…
