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  • “Queer (Dis)pleasure” Workshop

    “Queer (Dis)pleasure” Workshop

    Reading Queer a rather unique Miami based organization that was formed to preserve & promote queer literary culture in South Florida, has a new Event in their calendar that caught queerguru’s eye. “Queer (Dis)Pleasure” is a writing workshop with with E. Parker Phillips, a teacher, writer and performer and  will be using equipment from the BDSM…

  • The Night That Joey Arias Made Me Cry

    The Night That Joey Arias Made Me Cry

    About four years ago the sublime Joey Arias spent the whole summer performing at The Art House in Provincetown alongside Raven.  My friends told me little about this NY phenomena but insisted as she was totally fabulous I should go see her Show.  I am so pleased that I did as the moment, Joey opened…

  • Trans Models Strut to Fame

    Trans Models Strut to Fame

    Tuesday 20 September at 9/8c sees the premiere of a brand new TV series on the Oxygen channel in the U.S.  Strut is a reality show all about Slay Model Management in Los Angeles which is the world’s first exclusively trans modeling agency . The program has been executive produced by Whoopi Goldberg who told…

  • John Palatinus “Beefcake” Photographer

    John Palatinus “Beefcake” Photographer

    Way before Mapplethorpe was around and photographing provocative male-physique poses, there were a handful of photographers surreptitiously doing some rather stunning work.  John Palatinus was one of them and back in the 1950’s his images of men posing in straps or nude were published in a few bodybuilding magazines such as Tomorrows Men which were…