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Ron Amato : Playing in The Sunlight : Provincetown 1999-2022
Ron Amato has been making photographs since his childhood in Brooklyn, NY. His early influences were fashion and portrait photographers Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Francesco Scavullo. Much of Amato’s work centers on issues of sexual identity. His ‘recent work centers around issues of aging in the Gay community, diverse images of male beauty,…
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The good people of San Diego made sure that an anti-gay protest totally backfired
This sunny Sunday morning we are sending our thanks and love to the good citizens of San Diego who ensured that a petty anti-gay act totally backfired on the two homophobic matrons who thought they were being so clever. Last month Adrianne Peterson, the branch director of the Rancho Peñasquitos branch of the San…
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Queerguru’s TEN TOP PICKS OF MUST-SEE QUEER SHOWS at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023
There is no better place in the world to spend all of August than in Edinburgh, Scotland. It’s when the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as ‘The Fringe”) dominates the city. It is the world’s largest performance arts festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841…
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UK Football Chiefs finally Fine a major Club for allowing homophobic taunts
So it turns out that the FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION (FA) the official body that controls football in the UK does have a set of balls after all ….. albeit small ones. They have just fined the first club Wolverhampton Wanderers, better known as Wolves, for homophobic chanting. The team received a £100,000 (about $125000) sanction from…
