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When I Grow Up I Wanna Be An ………….INTIMACY CORDINATOR
When I was a teen in high school, I was confronted by a Careers Counselor who insisted I reveal what my chosen profession was to be. I was only just 14 years old and in the words of Clark Gable, ‘Frankly I didnt give a damn.’ Now, looking back at those (carefree) days, I realize…
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Rome. Power. Queer Desire. Chicago Gets Scandalous Boy.
If we are all totally honest wth ourselves, there are very few gay men who wouldn’t like the whole idea of being with a scandalous boy. It is after all hardly a new concept as the one who is featured in a new play is about the intoxicating most famous queer relationship in Roman…
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Shadowboxing in Blue ‘A Boxing-Ring Dance Theatre Bout’ run by queer women Danse Theatre Surreality of Brooklyn
Two women’s groups in NY have gotten together to create a new FREE boxing therapy workshop and performance Shadowboxing in Blue. Women and queer-run dance company Danse Theatre Surreality are holding these sessons on 4 Sundays this summer at woman, queer, and POC-owned space HAVEN Boxing, 65 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, NY. It is an innovative,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Dagmarr’s Dimanche, an intimate 1930’s Berlin-esq queer cabaret at London’s Crazy Coqs.
The glamorous queer French cabaret artiste Hersh Dagmarr was born at the beginning of the Twentieth Century and has enjoyed performing on the dimly-lit, louche, velvet-lined cabaret stages of Paris and Berlin for almost one hundred years now. Luckily for us, he’s a vampire and as alive, energetic and note-perfect as ever. Dagmarr’s Dimanche is…
