queermatter
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Are you ready for Footballer Wives The Musical ?
Over the years we’ve got used to composers really stretching their imagination for ideas to create new musicals. Who would thought that a 90-minute show about felines and even one about the wife of a South American dictator would be big smash hits? BUT even so, we think that the latest idea could be…
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Stanley Stellar’s Portraits at New York’s “Gay Piers” 1976 – 1983
A new exhibition has just opened in NY’s Kapp Kapp Gallery showing the work of celebrated queer photographer Stanley Stellar and in particular his wonderful images about the risque gay life at the New York piers in the 70s and 80s Stellar has photographed gay men in New York City for just over 45…
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Queer Spaces : as one door opens ….. another one closes. Hello ‘Not Safe For Work’ and Farewell ‘Sink The Pink”
ONE DOOR OPENS …. Lucky Dubliners have cause to celebrate this week. Ireland’s capital has a new monthly queer club opening this Friday, January 28. NOT SAFE FOR WORK is techno and progressive-dance inspired night is being billed as “a queer safe space” for both dance and play. The club is co-hosted…
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The Man who was longing to become a God : we mourn the passing of THIERRY MUGLER
From a very early age, inspired by German mythology, Manfred Thierry Mugler went on a quest for perfection. Born in Strasbourg on December 21st, 1948, his body language led him to become a ballet dancer and join the Ballets du Rhin at age 14 and attend Strasbourg Decorative Arts School with the firm intention…
