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Kunstmuseum Basel : THE FIRST HOMOSEXUAL : The Birth of New Identities
The exhibition The First Homosexuals: The Birth of New Identities 1869–1939, which started its journey at Wrightwood 659, Chicago, has now opened at the Kunstmuseum in Basel. Actually, the term “homosexual” first came into use in the German-speaking world in 1869 and underwent a substantial shift over the following decades. The debate over what the word designated…
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Another hypocritical homophobic pedophile Pastor is heading for Jail.
The Orange Man in the White House may be the flakiest person ever when it comes to taking a stance on anything remotely important and keeping to it. Most of what he utters these days is not only vitriolic garbage, but it also has a complete lack of morality. It’s a quality that his extreme…
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Miami loses a Musical Icon and one of its finest residents: MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
This week, Miami lost one of its finest. A Musical Icon whose enormous legacy was our first -class New World Symphony and the city’s Frank Gehry-designed Symphony Hall. This appreciation of MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS was written by local Emmy-nominated filmmaker and occasional Queerguru contributor Kareem Tabsch MTT as he was affectionately called, was a…
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Wilton Manors, Florida welcomes CHOCOLATE CITY its first (and long overdue) Black-Owned Gay Bar
Even though Wilton Manors, a small city in Florida that is a neighbor of Fort Lauderdale, has a significant queer population, it also has a mixed reputation regarding its attitude to diversity. Unlike Miami Beach down the road, whose last census showed that a population has some 53% foreign-born residents, and a significant portion of…
