queermatter
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Sports are one of the last bastions of homophobia : can that (ever) change?
It’s hard to grasp …… even for a non-sports fan like me …. that when English soccer player Jake Daniels decided to come out at the start of his professional career, he instantly became the only player in the English football leagues to come out as gay. What was more shocking is that he…
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Homophobia and Hypocrisy is alive and well in UK Tory Party
The UK Conservatives finished their Party Conference with an LGBTQ+ party night which ended in disarray amidst ‘disgusting’ homophobic abuse The event was organized by LGBT+ Conservatives, the official LGBTQ+ wing of the Conservative Party (kind of like the obnoxious republican Log Cabin in the US). It was the final night of the…
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BLACK LODGE : part film screening and part industrial rock opera
Part film screening and part industrial rock opera concert, BLACK LODGE is on the disturbing and complicated mythologies of the queer surrealist writer William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch). Created by David T Little and produced by Beth Morrison Projects. Black Lodge just had its World Premiere featuring glam opera band Timur & the Dime…
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Judy Shepard : There was so much more to Matt than the way he died.
Judy Shepard is an extraordinary woman. In 1998 her eldest son Matthew a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was tied to a fence outside of the town of Laramie, beaten mercilessly and left to die. This particular pernicious hate-crime caught the public’s attention, and news of his death provoked outrage from Wyoming to The White House. It also caused…
