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Celebrating queer life …..and Pride …. in Britain’s southern seaside towns
In the 1960s the seaside resort town of Margate on the South Coast of the UK became the center for two conflicting British youth subcultures There were ‘rockers’ who dressed in black leather astride their motorbikes all thinking they were as cool as Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Mods on the other hand…
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Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” never seems to go away : here’s why
In the 1980s in the UK the music industry saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. Disco fell out of fashion and instead in came soft rock, glam metal, thrash metal, shred guitar characterized by heavy distortion, pinch harmonics, and whammy bar abuse became very popular. In 1987 topping…
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The P Word : a powerful thought-provoking piece that tackles the universal problem of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Currently playing at London’s Bush Theatre is a powerful thought-provoking piece that tackles the universal problem of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers that seems to get worse every day Waleed Akhtar‘s “The P Word” explores that plus the experience of gay Pakistani men in the UK Split into two halves, in the first act we meet…
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Jurgen Wittdorf : homoerotic art of the communist era in East Germany
The German Democratic Republic (communist East Germany) may have beaten West Germany in decriminalizing sexual acts between men by one year in 1968 but they were just as homophobic as the West. Even though they called themselves a socialist “workers’ and peasants’ state”. When the GDR was formed after WW2 it inherited Paragraph…
