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Ben Platt is heading to London this summer to star in MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET
London is in for a great treat this summer as it has just been announced that Tony Award winner Ben Platt will be making his London theatre debut in Midnight at The Never Get. The musical with book, music, and lyrics by Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner Mark Sonnenblick is set in New York…
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The Stonewall Inn: Manhattan Borough President putting PRIDE Back where it all started
Its no secret that the LGBTQA+ community is high on the list of people/groups/things that The Orange Man wants to completely eradicate. It’s such a pity that he is no lover of US History, as he would know that so many people bigger and better than him have tried to do this in the past,…
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“FUCK THE RICH!”: QUEERCORE ARTIST BRUCE LABRUCE presents 18KT GOLD COCK RING ON VALENTINE’S DAY
The Canadian auteur Bruce LaBruce is one of the very best queer filmmakers: part queercore, part queer punk, part pornographer …… (and who actually hates labels…..), and who is always pushing the envelope with his work. He combines more conventional narrative and filmmaking techniques with his appetite for extreme topics, and many have explicit sexual content…
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The Irish Goverenment move to Pardon all gay men convicted in the past under old-antigay laws
The UK governed Ireland until 1922, when the Irish Free State gained independence. Like other countries around the globe that the British Empire once controlled, when they moved on, they left strict Victorian rules and laws they had imposed. In Ireland they had introduced the Offences Against the Persons Act, 1861 which made “buggery”…
