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Texas’s anti-gay crusade continues but this time there’s a fight back.
Three years ago a report from the Anti-Defamation League and GLAAD, a national LGBTQ+ advocacy nonprofit, found at least 356 incidents motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ hate across the U.S. from June 2022 to April 2023 — 305 incidents of harassment, 40 incidents of vandalism and 11 incidents of assault, according to the report. We don’t know…
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Queerguru’s PETER HERBERT reviews THE 2026 ALTERNATIVE MISS WORLD competition in London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
As if to bring an end to one of London’s longest heatwaves, the good earth at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre was invigorated by much-needed rain. This was also a forceful addition to Gaia the great mother of life, as the theme of the latest instalment of The Alternative Miss World on Sunday 13 Sept…
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LGBTQ+ communities around the world should fear Turkey intensifying clampdown
] Back in July, when a Virgin Gay Cruise ship was banned from stopping in a Turkish port, the official reason was that the group was “known for behaviors incompatible with the fabric of our society and our moral values”. i.e. the 1000 passngers were GAY and Rich Campbell, the president and CEO of Atlantis Events,…
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Queerguru Contributor JOEL CRAIG previews CODES OF BELONGING art by Georg Meyer-Wiel @ Tom of FInland Foundation
Since queer London artist and costume designer Georg Meyer-Wiel graduated from the Royal College of Art he’s become quite the globetrotter and has been awarded with critical and commercial acclaim, with major exhibitions at Hockney Gallery London, Henry Moore Gallery London, Michael Commerford Gallery Sydney and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany. Earlier this year we covered his one-man show Travelogue at Bnude…
