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Coming Out in Football is still a very big deal : here are the latest 2 brave souls

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  Sport (and particularly football)  is still one of the last great bastions of homophobia (and misogyny) that ensures that the LGBTQ+ communities acceptance is often at a snail’s pace. So much so when 21-year Australian professional footballer Josh Cavallo came out as gay this week it made headlines around the world which is still … Continue reading



This Gay Artist Challenged Sexuality Norms Long Before We Could Imagine

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Celebrating homoeroticism, androgyny, nakedness & unbounded love REPRINTED FROM https://medium.com/  COPYRIGHT Kamna Kirti Idyll by George Quaintance.  Can you imagine a gay visual artist in 1950s America who embraced gender fluidity long before the term was even coined? Imagine how difficult it would be to aesthetically portray homoeroticism long before when being gay was not … Continue reading



British Naval Officer is the first openly gay man to receive Meritorious Medal for his LGBTQ work

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  It’s just 20 years since the UK changed its laws to permit openly gay men and women to serve in the Armed Services  (and a bare 10 years since the US followed suit).  It was after all one of the most ridiculous laws as when it came to wartime the authorities were happy to … Continue reading



‘UPRISING – Let the Record Show – A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

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  LGBTQ activist, author, and AIDS historian Sarah Schulman is back to London for a 2-day to launch her latest book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York (2020).  It’s the result which is the result of more than 200 interviews conducted over 18 years and is a  long-overdue reassessment- of … Continue reading



Hotel Gaythering celebrates Halloween with a Greek God Frat Party

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  We can always rely on Queerguru’s fav hotelier and bar owner to put his very own spin on celebrating Halloween.  Alex @itstherabbit Guerra is turning his second Halloween Party this year into a Greek Gods Frat Party at Hotel Gaythering in Miami Beach on Saturday, October 30th.   They’ll be music courtesy @djhottpants & @ccglitzer: … Continue reading



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