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“Ireland’s “Outing Festival : the World’s Only Music, Matchmaking & Queer Arts Festival
So if part/all of your New Years’ Resolution is to find ‘true love’ then you just have to k ow about Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland which has been around for more than 170 years. Some 11 years ago they added The Outing Festival, created by the new Queen of matchmaking Eddie McGuinness, …
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Truth or Dare : a new doc on Berlin’s Sex Postive Culture
If sex positivity is an important issue for you then here’s a chance to for your first good deed for the new year and you can help crowd-fund a new documentary on the subject. Maja Classen’s ongoing 30-minute experimental film “Truth or Dare” explores stories of intimacy, desire, and diversity in sex-positive spaces and she…
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WRECKAGE ‘a queer love story filled with loss, guilt, joy, and everything in between” : Turbine Theatre, London
Brit queer writer/actor Tom Ratcliffe is transferring his play WRECKAGE to London after a very successful run at the Edinburgh Festival this summer. The play, originally commissioned by the Harlow Playhouse is about a couple whose lives are disrupted by a sudden and permanent distance “its a love story filled with loss, guilt,…
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Thierry Mugler: Couturissime: a retrospective of the work of the iconic queer French designer
As the world celebrates the life of the legendary Dame Vivienne Westwood who died this week aged 81, we also remember another fashion icon who died in 2022. Thierry Mugler, the openly gay, French fashion designer who dressed celebrities from Lady Gaga to Beyoncé, was 73. when he passed away in January. The House…
