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Scandalous Conduct: A (rather fabulous) Fairy Extravaganza commemorates the Newport Naval Sex Scandal of 1919.
Most gay men in the Western Hemisphere under the age of 50 have never had to experience life when it was still illegal to be gay. And for almost 20 years now the right of same sex marriages in so many countries has compounded the acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights and the community in…
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Will and Grace’s very own Jack and Karen : always UNFORGETTABLE
For over 20 glorious years WILL and GRACE was not just every queer man’s favorite TV series but it was one of the most successful television series with gay principal characters. It so closely reflected how our community became to much more embraced by the world at large. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden…
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LA Photographer RICK CASTRO’s latest book “S/M BLVD,” features a collection of male hustlers on Santa Monica Boulevard
Between 1986 and 1999, the photographer Rick Castro created an archive of portraits using the street hustlers of Santa Monica Boulevard as subjects. Save for individuals he met while traveling in Europe, nearly all of the subjects in this collection were found on a 20-block stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard loosely boundaried by…
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I’m Here, I’m Queer, and I’m Country : Queerguru corrall’s the best queer cowboy songs
Queerguru’s Music Editor Allison Ananis likes nothing more than shaking us all up in the office with her music choices (thank God she’s finally finished her HardCore Hip Hop phase). So, after we wrote about Orville Peck who positions himself as the Banksy of queer music and looks like a fringed Lone Ranger,…
