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Polari presents Prizes …. and more
Queerguru wants to add their congrats to the winners of this year’s POLARI PRIZE for the best new queer literature. The ‘Polaris’ the gift of the literary salon of the same name that was founded by writer and journalist Paul Burston are THE most prestigious awards of their kind and are highly sought-after. (Sort…
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Coming Out in Football is still a very big deal : here are the latest 2 brave souls
Sport (and particularly football) is still one of the last great bastions of homophobia (and misogyny) that ensures that the LGBTQ+ communities acceptance is often at a snail’s pace. So much so when 21-year Australian professional footballer Josh Cavallo came out as gay this week it made headlines around the world which is still…
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This Gay Artist Challenged Sexuality Norms Long Before We Could Imagine
Celebrating homoeroticism, androgyny, nakedness & unbounded love REPRINTED FROM https://medium.com/ COPYRIGHT Kamna Kirti Idyll by George Quaintance. Can you imagine a gay visual artist in 1950s America who embraced gender fluidity long before the term was even coined? Imagine how difficult it would be to aesthetically portray homoeroticism long before when being gay was not…
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British Naval Officer is the first openly gay man to receive Meritorious Medal for his LGBTQ work
It’s just 20 years since the UK changed its laws to permit openly gay men and women to serve in the Armed Services (and a bare 10 years since the US followed suit). It was after all one of the most ridiculous laws as when it came to wartime the authorities were happy to…
