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Hawaii’s Bishop Museum revisits its history of gender-fluid healers
More than 500 years ago, Hawaiians placed four boulders on a Waikiki beach to honor visitors from the court of Tahiti’s king who had healed the sick. They were “mahu,” which in Hawaiian language and culture refers to someone with dual male and female spirit and a mixture of gender traits. A new…
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Madrid’s Pride HIGH HEEL RACE is back …..
Madrid’s LGTBQ Pride would not be the same without its traditional High Heel Race, a sporting-festive event which this year celebrates its twenty-third edition in Pelayo Street and which involves finishing the course on platforms up to 15 centimeters high. “I run because I think it’s something super original, very fun and a…
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Greg Salvatori: THREADS
Greg Salvatori is a self-taught queer artist whose work has been exhibited or published in +30 countries. His visionary art blends contemporary techniques and aesthetics with classical concerns for beauty and light. Since he opened his own very successful Gallery in PTown he has become so very well known for his playful, provocative series. …
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Major Museums in BARCELONA celebrate PRIDE
Different cities around the globe celebrate Pride in very different ways. For example, in Barcelona, several museums transform their spaces with proposals that claim sexual and gender diversity The institutions participating in the initiative, which has the collaboration of the LGTBI Center of Barcelona, are the Fundació Joan Miró , the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya , the Museu de Ciències…
