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Queerguru is heading to SF for The Hunky Jesus Contest : here’s a peek of what we expect
Some 38 years ago fabulous Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the beloved saviors of the queer community on so many levels started their HUNKY JESUS COMPETITION. It was started back then specifically to combat Catholic anti-gay sentiments and it has become one of San Francisco’s most popular annual events. Queerguru is going to attend for the…
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A HARD MAN IS GOOD TO FIND! a bold new exhibition charting over 60 years of queer photography of the male physique.
A Hard Man Is Good To Find! is a great new exhibition on at The Photographers Gallery, London, documenting queer male photography in London during the twentieth century. Such photography doesn’t actually exist in the public realm in great quantities, partly because it was illegal under the Obscene Publications Act 1857, and…
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Black Miami-Dade Presents: Give Them Their Flowers—An Exhibit of Black LGBTQ+ Miami History
Give Them Their Flowers is a first-of-its-kind exhibit to celebrate Miami’s Black LGBTQ+ history and comes at a critical time when Black and queer histories are under attack in Florida. This exhibit pays homage to Miami’s Black queer history by merging historical research, archival imagery, artifacts, oral histories, video and portraits of Black…
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Uganda passes Law that can now sentence LGBTQ+ people to death just for being gay!
Africa is the very worse continent when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights. Being gay is only legal in 22 of the 55 countries, and being trans is legal in just 4 of them. As other regions of the world tread slowly in improving queer rights, African countries like Uganda are hell-bent on making…
