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Provincetown’s Genre-Bending Queer Music Festival hosted by Tony Award-winner John Cameron Mitchell and starring Jake Wesley Rodgers
According to Urban Dictionary a ‘washashore’ is a newcomer to a coastal or island community, a non-native, and who can sometimes (?) be a subject of xenophobia. In Provincetown, it is however considered a badge of honor in this gay mecca at the tip of Cape Cod which has a very diverse community. The Pilgrims laid…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden falls in love with Frank and Percy a heart-touching queer romance
Frank and Percy ✩✩✩✩ The Other Palace, London Loneliness has a special fear for a generation of senior gay men. There were those who lived before the legalization of gay sex, those who loved before the establishment of marriage equality, and those who lost friends, lovers and peers to the AIDS crisis before medication…
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ELSKA Magazine visits the men of Gay Haifa , Israel’s most diverse gay city
After shooting the last issue of Elska in Istanbul, editor and chief photographer Liam Campbell stayed in the Middle East traveling to Israel and its 3rd largest city Haifa. At the beginning of this century, Haifa suffered a population drain as young people moved in vast numbers to the bustling capital Tel Aviv.…
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On the 12th Anniversary of the Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ the Secretary of Defense promises more help for servicemen & veterans
Last week the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III made a statement on the 12th Anniversary of ‘Dont Ask Don’t Tell’ which may seem like just history to most of us, but it is still a very painful subject for so many servicemen and veterans. The Secretary said “Over the past decade,…
