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Visual AIDS is marking Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day at three FREE premiere events in NYC and Los Angeles!
For Day With(out) Art 2022, Visual AIDS presents Being and Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world. The program features newly commissioned work by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince King (USA), Santiago Lemus and Camilo…
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Some queer ways on how to celebrate Thanksgiving with ‘your chosen family’
There is often too much pressure on us to travel across the country in packed planes to celebrate Thanksgiving with our biological family. The truth is that so many gay people would much rather be with our chosen family (or as Armistead Maupin terms it ‘our logical family‘). It’s even more galling when your parents…
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Sydney is to re-stage WARD 17 Australia’s first dedicated HIV/AIDS unit
Queerguru loves to look around the world to see the different ways that World Aids Day is on December 1st each year. Technically there is a particular project in Sydney Australia that will not be ready by then but will be a remarkable memorial when it is completed. Sydney’s new LGBTQI museum Qtopia has…
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Love Goddess : The Rita Hayworth Musical …. reviewed by Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden
Love Goddess: The Rita Hayworth Musical★★★ The Cockpit Theatre, London Rita Hayworth was the biggest female star of the 1940s, born Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino, she had 5 husbands, made 61 movies, and (thank you Lord) inspired the creation of the margarita. That in itself is worthy of the word legendary. Making a show…
