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Gene Howard was singing love songs to other men back in the 1960s
Thanks to archivist J.D. Doyle a little-known queer jazz record from 1962 has been discovered and its a wee gem. The record, tagged as “sultry stylings by a most unusual vocalist,” features a male crooner singing love songs about other men. The record had no artist credits, other than the cover photo and back…
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Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer : An Exhibition on the History, Culture and Activism of Queerness & Disability
The new Exhibit in Berlin’s queer Schwule Museum is the first international exhibition exploring the multiple historical, cultural, and political intersections of queerness and disability. It shows works by over 20 international contemporary artists who deal with the historical themes and objects of the exhibition. Also on view is a selection from the Prinzhorn…
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Writing Ourselves In + The Coast is Queer ….2 Brit Queer UNMISSABLE Literary Events
This Fall (autumn…) lovers of the best of queer writing will be heading to Britain’s South Coast for two fab literary events The first is WRITING OURSELVES IN as part of the 51st Annual RYE ARTS Festival 2022. This is held In the town that was home to ancestral homos Henry James and E.F,Benson there…
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Gay serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer gets the Ryan Murphy treatment
Confession time. No one in the Queerguru Office has liked anything that was made by Uber queer Producer Ryan Murphy for a very long time. He does pick interesting subjects/projects but after he got such good reviews for his early, the latter more recent stuff became way too formulaic. Its become style over…
