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  • Big Hair and even Bigger Hair in Paris, France

    Big Hair and even Bigger Hair in Paris, France

      Paris empties out in August as all Parisians forsake the city to go on their vacances so this is the perfect month to go visit ‘Des cheveux et des poils’  (Hair and Hair) to see the visually stunning new exhibit at the Museum of Decorative Arts   The exhibition takes up both floors of…

  • Queeruru’s fav. early queer music and gay anthems

    Queeruru’s fav. early queer music and gay anthems

      Early music about being gay relied very much on innuendos so much so that very few people ever realized that Tutti Fruiti by gay singer Little Richard in 1955 was about anal sex.  Some performers like Noel Coward would be more risque when he wrote/sang If Love Were All …… in 1929 but when…

  • QUEER JOY  a stunning Open Air Exhibit at Kings Cross, London

    QUEER JOY a stunning Open Air Exhibit at Kings Cross, London

      Kings Cross London, next to the major train station of the same name, is the latest area of central London that has been gentrified.  And made more than a tad queer too.  It is home to QUEER BRITAIN the first dedicated LGBTQ museum in the UK. Also there in Granary Square at the heart…

  • Strip Down/Dress Up and and come play at  THE LAND OF TOYS   @ PTown Carnival

    Strip Down/Dress Up and and come play at THE LAND OF TOYS @ PTown Carnival

        Provincetown at the very tip of Cape Cod is a gay mecca with approx 3000 full-time residents that swells to some 300,000 every summer. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau officially declared Provincetown,  to be the Gayest City in America in 2011.   There has been a gay presence in the town as early…