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The most famous, gay male strip club in the US is taking it all off for the very last time
The Party really is Over for US’s most famous (and notorious) gay strip club has just closed for good on January 15. Swinging Richards all-male nude revue bar had been running for over three decades in Atlanta Georgia. Totally unique, it tried to open another branch in Miami a few years back but the…
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Ambassador Rufus Gifford is finally sworn in as the first openly gay Presidential Chief of Protocol
Openly gay Rufus Gifford, the former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark during President Barack Obama’s second term was finally sworn in as the Chief of Protocol this week, along with 30 other ambassador appointees in the Biden administration. He, and the other appointees, had been given their positions very soon after President Biden took…
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From the archives of Bob Mizer’s famed PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL
Photographer BOB MIZER’s Physique Pictorial may have been founded in 1945 but the atheistic in his stunning images of American photography are just as relevant today. His studio in Pico-Union was known as the Athletic Model Guild (AMG) and that was where he made erotic photographs of muscular men and bodybuilders. …
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The Legendary Danny La Rue – Britain’s most celebrated Female Impersonator
We’re starting the new year by taking a look back at one of our favorite queer icons of the Since he first went on a stage wearing a women’s frock in the early 1950s Danny LaRue very quickly became the most celebrated female impersonator of his time in the UK. A consummate performer always…
