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  • Pig Week Fort Lauderdale: for gay men who love some debauchery and kink.

    Pig Week Fort Lauderdale: for gay men who love some debauchery and kink.

      The day after Thanksgiving when most of the USA are cursing themselves for overeating an excessive turkey dinner and being quite a pig, it takes on a whole different meaning in Fort Lauderdale.  For this is the day the Annual Pig Week starts in earnest, for which  gay men who enjoy a bit of…

  • Branden & James: A (rather wonderful) Christmas Gift

    Branden & James: A (rather wonderful) Christmas Gift

      One of the annual treats of Queerguru’s summers up in PTown, Mass is that we get to hang out with the talented vocal and cello duo Branden and James.  This July it was in bed.  Well, to be truthful they were under the covers in their bedroom at the Pilgrim House Hotel and we…

  • Die Surely : just another queer Thanksgiving-from-hell story

    Die Surely : just another queer Thanksgiving-from-hell story

      If you have just been to one of those never-again family Thanksgivings from hell, then you will so relate to this rather wacky short film Die Surely It’s the story of when gender-nonconforming Shirley Sadstone, crashes Thanksgiving dinner to the chagrin of the holier-than-thou family members. Pleasantries are quickly pushed aside when Shirley arrives…

  • London : wanna learn something (old) new?

    London : wanna learn something (old) new?

    In London this week and at a loose end? Our tip for trying something new would be to take the bus to Walthamstow for a Sashiko+Boro – Japanese Mending Workshop. Well, it may be new to you but Boro is the age-old Japanese art of mending textiles and is literally translated as rags or scraps…