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U Try Livin’ : a new take on a track from RED, HOT + FREE the 1990 AIDS Benefit Album
During the 1990’s the Red Hot Organisation, an international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture. released a series of albums called Red Hot +Blue. The first one sold over a million copies worldwide and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business. Since its inception in…
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ELSKA Magazine visits SINGAPORE where finally it is no longer illegal to be gay
As a former British Colony SINGAPORE inherited a great many of the laws imposed on them by its British rulers. One prohibited sodomy regardless of sex and as such heterosexual and homosexual anal or oral sex was illegal. In 2007, such sexual activity was legalized for heterosexuals and lesbians, but not between men who…
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Jackie Beat is “DR. JACKIE Unlicensed Psychotherapist”
Legendary (and by “legendary” they merely mean “still alive”) drag queen, Jackie Beat has FINALLY landed her own tv series with “Dr. Jackie: Unlicensed Psychotherapist.”The 6-part series will premiere on OUTtv September 19 with new episodes airing each week through October 24. Episode 1 will be free on OUTtv on The Roku Channel and on the…
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What changed for the LGBTQ+ community during the Queen’s reign?
One of the first major pieces of LGBTQ+ legislation Queen Elizabeth II gave royal assent to was the Sexual Offences Act of 1967. That history-making act marked the first major crack in the UK’s long-held criminalization of same-sex sexual activity – it decriminalized gay sex in private between men aged 21 and over in…
