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Miami’s fabulous Gay8 Latino Street Festival
Last year Miami gave birth to Gay8 (GayOcho!) the city’s very first Latino LGBT art, music and food street festival in Miami’s historic Little Havana and it was a sensational success with some 17,000 people swelling the crowds throughout the day . We know that for a fact, as we were there too. Now on January 15,…
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Golden Globes go Gay (ish)
The stunning LGBT coming-of-age drama Moonlight from filmmaker Barry Jenkins, based on a play by openly gay writer Tarell Alvin McCrane rightly walked away with the top prize of Best Drama at the Golden Globes last night cementing an excellent night for diversity in general. (The movie incidentally is already number 30 in the list of…
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I Don’t Pop My Cork For Every Man I See
The words are from one of Dame Shirley Bassey’s numerous hits ‘Big Spender’ and may (or may not) be true about the diva’s very colorful life that helped established her as Britain’s favorite gay icon. Dame Shirley, best known for singing three of the James Bond theme songs, started performing 63 years ago at the…
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queerguru’s weekly barometer
Usually every week queerguru takes a brief look at some of the big things that have made us smile and get a real ‘high five’ aka the ice cream emoji, and at the other end of the scale, those things that have really pissed us off and get a very big thumbs downs aka the…
