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  • Nathaniel Hall : The First Time : a positive story in a negative world

    Nathaniel Hall : The First Time : a positive story in a negative world

      Can you remember your first time? Nathaniel can’t seem to forget his. To be fair, he has had it playing on repeat for the last 15 years. Now the party is over, the balloons have all burst and he’s left living his best queer life: brunching on pills and Googling kangaroo vaginas, ancient condoms…

  • Rihanna says gay men want to wear her lingerie !

    Rihanna says gay men want to wear her lingerie !

        The headline boasts Rihanna and Savage X Fenty are giving the gays everything they want with a new lingerie collection.  Sorry, guys they really don’t.  Unless their only role model is Lil Nas X.  We may love his music and attitude but most gay men look like nuns compared to him!  The new…

  • Historian  Stephen Vider delves into LGBTQ life and the American home

    Historian Stephen Vider delves into LGBTQ life and the American home

      THIS ARTICLE WAS REPRINTED FROM https://www.eurekalert.org/ ITHACA, N.Y. — Both academic studies and popular representations of LGBTQ history have typically focused on battles for public space and visibility. As gay liberation activists put it in the 1970s: “Out of the closets, into the street.” But the intimacy of domestic space was an equally crucial aspect…

  • JD Brousse  brings his stunning solo show to MANIPULATE Festival

    JD Brousse brings his stunning solo show to MANIPULATE Festival

      JD Brousse was destined to be a fourth-generation baker, but instead, he ran away from home and joined the circus.  Now a performance artist  (le) Pain is his first solo show and it is about breadmaking, physical heroics, growing up queer in a boulangerie in the south of France, endings and new beginnings. It…