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  • OUR TOP TEN NEW WORDS

    Every year The Oxford English Dictionary the bastion of the English language decides what new words are now acceptable usage and they add them to their vast tomes so we know how to talk about life as we know it today.  Their experts chose 500 new words this time, and here are our favorite Top…

  • QG MEETS DAVID THORPE WRITER/DIRECTOR OF ‘DO I SOUND GAY?’

    Is there such a thing as a “gay voice”? Why do some people “sound gay” but not others? Why are gay voices a mainstay of pop culture—but also a trigger for anti-gay harassment? You have probably asked yourself some of these questions in the past but American journalist David Thorpe finding himself single again in…

  • Queerguru reviews THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES  an extraordinarily wonderful documentary  about ultimate bad taste

    Queerguru reviews THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES an extraordinarily wonderful documentary about ultimate bad taste

      This is an extraordinarily wonderful documentary that followed obnoxious billionaire timeshare mogul David Segal and his pampered blonde trophy wife Jackie as their life of sheer excess starts to crumble around them. The story starts pre-2008 when everything in their Florida mansion was so rosy for them and children and whole menagerie of animal…