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JORDAN : Queen of Punk dies aged 66
1976 was such an important cultural milestone as it was when the British Punk Revolution started. They rejected contemporary mainstream discarded nostalgia with many in the scene adopting a nihilistic attitude summed up by the Sex Pistols slogan “No Future” One social observer noted that amid the unemployment and social unrest in 1977, “punk’s…
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Celebrate PRIDE with gay Superheros
What better than to be able to celebrate Gay Pride with some of your heroes. Comic book ones that is. On May 31st, just in time for Pride Month, superhero publisher DC Comics are releasing DC Pride 2022 #1, a special, 104-page anthology comic that features LGBTQIA+ characters from all over the extended DC…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews Bourgeois & Maurice ‘sparkingly new show’ Pleasure Seekers
Bourgeois & Maurice: Pleasure Seekers ☆☆☆☆ Soho Theatre, London Bourgeois & Maurice want to plunge you headfirst into pleasure. No toe dips. Hedonism is their religion. They may claim to have some rules: No Thinking, No Songs, and No Negativity, but in a sparklingly fresh show at the Soho Theatre they break every…
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Pioneer Winter Collective : BIRDS OF PARADISE
Miami-based Pioneer Winter, who is Recognized in Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch, is one of the most creative and original choreographers in contemporary dance theater today in the US. He is the Artistic Director of the Pioneer Winter Collective, an intergenerational and physically integrated dance-theater company, rooted in social practice and community, queer visibility…
