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The UK Government tries to stop the Scottish Parliament’s excellent Gender Recognition Act
The current controversy over the UK government’s determination to overthrow the Scottish Parliament’s bill to make it easier for trans people to gain legal recognition of their gender has made people realize how unfair/ridiculous the devolution of power really is . Until 1999, the UK Parliament was the source of all legislation across…
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Twinkle the story of a (Pantomime) Dame scorned .
The official definition of Pantomime is ‘a play or entertainment in which the performers express themselves mutely by gestures, often to the accompaniment of music.’ The reality of this very traditional English stage show which is full of crude double entendres with some of the first drag queens in history would never pass as children’s…
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GIna Lollobrigida fabulous Italian movie star from the golden age of Hollywood dies
Gina Lollobrigida, the fabulous Italian movie actress who became one of the post-World War II era’s first major European sex symbols, died on Monday in Rome. She was 95. In the 1950’s Lollobrigida emerged as the face of la dolce vita, a siren beckoning Romans to once again indulge, celebrate and embrace. Ms. Lollobrigida…
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Putting the spin on Tom of Finland’s Organic Vodka
As you should know by now (!) Tom Of Finland was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late-20th-century gay culture. He has been called the “most influential creator of gay pornographic images”. Over the course of four decades, he produced some 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring macho men wearing tight…
